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Identification of the applicant

Name of the organisation / Claremorris Community Radio
Registered address (street, city, country) / Town Hall Road
Claremorris
Co Mayo
Telephone / Fax / 0035394939373737
Website of the organisation / ccr946.ie
Name of the contact person / Pat Keane
Email/Telephone of the contact person / / 0862781968
Short overview of your organisation (key activities, experience) / Claremorris Community Radio is a volunteer-led, not-for-profit radio station. We aim to reflect the diversity of cultures and the range of abilities of our catchment area. We promote community development and invite all individuals and community organisations to participate in our programming and offer training and media skills development. Volunteers and employees are the presenters, researchers and producers of our programmes which aim to stimulate, inform, educate and entertain our listenership. We promote and respect programming of all types and genres but particularly welcome Irish language content. There is an onus on everyone involved with Claremorris Community radio to behave in a spirit of mutual respect. We define our community as those who live, have lived or have any tangible connection to the Claremorris area.

Description of the project

Strand, Measure in the framework of “Europe for Citizens” Programme (e.g. European Remembrance; Civil Society Project; Town Twining)? / Strand 2 (Civil society projects)
Timetable of the project / June 2018 – December 2019
Short description of the project, including its aims / This is a democratic engagement project to be conducted in cunjunction with other European Community organisations, to look into the impact of migration on migrants and receiving communities. Its aim is to create links and to celebrate all the diversity of cultures involved.
We would make maximum use of existing liaison structures and facilitation groups within the community.
We wish the concept of challenge to be acknowledged within the project.
Role of the partner organisation in the project / To replicate the process with other population centres the processes involved in constructing links to newer migrant groups and appreciating existing cross-cultural connections.
Allow a broad-based interpretation of definition in order to facilitate differences of experience.
Comments from the applicant / Claremorris is one of the fastest growing small towns in Ireland. Our community has grown by 73% since 2004. Most of this increase can be seen in a population increase of New-Irish. This change has impacted on the schools, social services, community organisations, social interactivity, etc. It has changed an area which was mono-cultural into a multi-cultural one. To some this is a positive, to others a negative. We wish to reflect this dichotomy in tackling the reality of migration in our community whether that migration may derive from economic or asylum causes.