Community Centre & Community Hub

The Centre houses:

• A number of offices
• Large Function Room with capacity for up to 200 people
• HSE approved kitchen which is used to prepare meals for our meals project – for more information on our social meals & meals delivery project please click here. The kitchen also prepares a lunch option for staff, trainees and visitors
• Variety of training / meeting rooms
• State of the art IT training room with individual stations
• Training Kitchen with individual workstations for trainees
• Provision of tea, coffee, soup, scones for trainees, visitors and staff.
• Base from which our LTI Cookery Programme operates – for more information on our LTI Cookery Programme please click here
• Rooms available for rental

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Services available at the Community Centre

• Office services such as printing, photocopying, laminating, binding, typing, help completing forms, etc
• Services such as CV Preparation, Interview Preparation, etc
• Provide a Community Hub to support individuals and organisations in our community – To find out more about our community hub, please click here
• Room Rental
• Social meals at the centre and meals delivery – Find out more about our social meals and meals delivery project here
• Rural Transport with Mayo Local Link – Find out more about the routes available here
• Organic Gardens – Find out more here
• Provide individual IT support to members of our community
• Variety of training programmes at our Training Centre – Find out more here
• Mayo Abbey Cookery School – Find out more about our cookery and hospitality courses here
• Full time LTI Professional Cookery Programme – Find out more here
• Our training co-ordinator can work with groups to develop training programmes suited to their individual needs
• Group tours / days out with an option for lunch

To find out more about any of our services, please contact us.

Our Community Hub

The Centre offices are primarily staffed by Community Employment Participants and Rural Social Scheme Participants. Staff at the centre provide a wide range of supports to the community in the following ways:

• Supporting individuals in the community who require support or assistance, or directing them to where they can find the support or assistance they need
• Providing free training to members of the community requiring assistance with smartphones, laptops and computers
• Supporting Mayo Abbey Parish Housing Association in their day to day running, and through the provision of staff from the CE scheme
• Supporting Abbey Tots Childcare in their day to day running, and through the provision of staff from the CE scheme
• Working with Local Link Mayo to ensure continued bus service between the National School and Abbey Tots
• Supporting local clubs / organisations including;
  • Mayo Abbey Active Age Association
  • Mayo Abbey Foroige Club
  • Mayo Abbey Heritage Committee
  • Mayo Gaels
  • Mayo Abbey Church
  • Mayo Abbey National School
• Provide support to Facefield Village and Facefield Afterschool
• Provide support to Tochar Valley Network who in turn support 18 communities

In addition to all of the above projects, staff at the centre are always looking for various ways to link with the community.  Some of the services they provide include:

• Researching and developing various initiatives to reach out to the community
• Managing a community facebook page, which gives information about what’s happening locally, as well as about various supports available
• Compiling the Mayo Abbey Community Notes for the local papers
• Organising speakers to come in and speak about various topics that may be of interest to the community eg keeping your bank accounts secure, etc
• Offering a telephone befriending service to anybody who may feel alone in the community
• Producing various fliers and leaflets outlining what goes on at the centre
• Seeking feedback from service users about what they would like to see here

Our Facilities

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