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St Munchin’s CC call for the community’s voice for support
St Munchin’s CC call for the community’s voice for support
St Munchin’s CC call on the public to raise awareness following their traditional Christmas Day lunch announcement
St Munchin’s Community Centre has made a public appeal for long-term support amid a funding crisis, which has seen the much-loved community centre announce that it will not be able to provide its traditional Christmas Day lunches for the elderly.
Following the announcement, Linda Ledger, St Munchin’s Community Centre CEO, has highlighted that the reason for not being able to commit to the Christmas Day lunches this year is due to “no guarantee of funding” for the following years.
For the first time in more than 20 years, the community centre will not be able to provide the Christmas lunch, and members of the public have joined in raising their voices for St Munchin’s.
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Hoping to clear up the confusion around the announcement following appeals from the public, Ms Ledger said, “There’s some confusion. The reason that we can’t do Christmas Day dinners like we’ve always done is that we have no guarantee of funding for next year.”
The CEO explained that their funding had been cut as they aim to reach their operating costs of €237,000 per year.
She explained, “Last year we got 90 [thousand]. This year we get the 70, next year we might get 50, then 25, and it’s gone. We are not asking the government to give us everything, but for the work we do on the ground, we’re the scaffolding that holds up everything. We’re there to answer anybody’s problems. There are two and a half thousand people using this centre a week, so our call is to the government that we do need funding.”
Following the announcement earlier this month, the St Munchin’s Community Centre CEO said they were grateful for all the people and businesses who reached out to help, but says the issue is “bigger” than the support offered.
She said, “As usual, it was all yourselves. It was the community, it was the local businesses that had all offered to help us out over Christmas. But this is a bigger issue.”
Calling for support, she asked for the public to contact their TDs and representatives, saying, “We’d like you to get in touch with your TDs. It’s not a lot, we are only looking for a hundred thousand a year or just some sort of core funding that we can do.”
As many call for the centre to set up fundraising measures such as an online fundraising campaign, the group acknowledged that they are grateful for the public support, but said the long-term survival of the centre could not be “solved through short-term fundraising”.
They say that without long-term support, the vital community centre could be forced to close its doors entirely in 2026.
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