Name of town: Bandon, Co. Cork, Munster

Organisation name: Collaboration between Bandon Food Trail (BFT) & Bandon Co-Marketing Group (BCMG) with input from Several other town groups

Contact names:

Ruth Healy 023-8854731

Amanda Landzaad 089 2121490

Address:

c/o Bandon Co-Marketing Group

1st Floor Factory Lane, Bandon, Co. Cork

Phone:

As above

Fax:

n/a

Email:

ruthhealy@urru.ie

marketingbandon@gmail.com

Web:

www.facebook.com/bandonfoodtrail

www.facebook.com/Bandon-Co-Marketing-Group

Population category:

Small Town (1,001 to 5,000)with actual population of 1,917

 

Individuals, organisations and voluntary groups involved in the submission of this application:

Core Working Group:

• Amanda Landzaad (Bandon Co-Marketing Group

• Shirley Kingston (Bandon Farmers Market)

• Gill Good (Glebe House Ballinadee & Bandon Food Trail)

• Ruth Healy (Urru Culinary Store & Bandon Food Trail

 

In consultation with

• Maria Mc Laughlin (Future Bandon)

• Eugene O Hea (Bandon Arts Festival)

• numerous other ad hoc individuals involved around the town.

 

Voluntary commitment for this submission:

3 meetings with a series of vox pop/ call in to various groups & individuals around town. Source material from the named groups above and involved in various activities outlined throughout the application.

 

Please indicate any support, financial or otherwise, you have received from agencies and bodies: (In general, informally & formally) there are continuous inter-linkages between groups when organizing events Co-operation and support come from

• Cork County Council (town manager)

• Gardai (Supt Eddie Mc Eoin & team)

From a resource perspective:

• TUS (e.g. Bandon Co-Marketing Group Assistant Ger Fitzgerald and Bandon Town Gardener Alan Love (1 of only 7 in the country)

• Job Bridge/ Incubator for skill development led locally by Master Butcher Martin Carey (Vice President Crafts Butchers of Ireland)

West Cork Development Partnership also lends support to a number of activities & projects.