While the annual Tidy Towns Competition did not take place this year due to the Covid Pandemic, the Tidy Towns volunteers were busy in Adare carrying out regular grass cutting and flower bed and hedge maintenance around the Village and planning improvement projects for next year’s Tidy Towns Award (see below) All of our actions
If you are an upcycler or even a would be upcycler, this video/workshop is a must! Full of top tips to help you with your various projects as you channel your inner creativity to upcycle your stuff. Co hosted by Limerick City and County Council and the Rediscovery Centre, (national academy for the circular economy.)
If your age is somewhere between 5 and 95 there is a place for you in the Adare Tidy Towns (ATT) Volunteer team. The purpose of ATT is to make Adare a more pleasant and interesting place to live or visit. This presents a host of challenges and opportunities. Keeping Adare clean, tidy and litter
Great news for the people of Adare with the village awarded a €40,000 grant under the Town & Village renewal accelerated programme. The grant is towards the refurbishment of the Countess of Dunraven fountain and the creation of a new surrounding area incorporating seating to be enjoyed by all. The fountain, one of the many
Plant swap event on Sat 28th September 2-4pm at Lucy Erridge Crafts, Adare. We are hosting a plant swap – anyone who wishes to split plants that have grown too big or simply want to change plants in their garden can dig them up and bring them to our garden at Lucy Erridge in the thatched cottages.
The last push for the Going for Gold Award was helped greatly by the children from the schools of Adare. They did a tremendous amount of work and the teachers and parents should be very proud of their contribution. Thanks to everyone that helped out during these last few days of preparation before the judges
Judging takes place Mon-Thu this week. €1600, minus 20€ for every piece of litter the judges see, is the reward for keeping the village as litter free as possible. Further details of competition. Please do what you can to help over the next few days. Various groups will be out helping during the week and
Will your business provide visitors with a free tap-water top up to reduce the use of single use plastic water bottles? Are you a business owner in the village interested in supporting the Refill initiative ? If so please sign up with refill.ie or alternatively I can pass on your details and give you a
We want to hear your stories regarding how you do something different to protect, improve our environment. Please send your article, images to adaretidytowns@gmail.com. Ideally somewhere between 100-300 words with an explanatory image discussing what you are doing and why. (example below) Why create a website? The purpose of the Adaretidytowns website is primarily to
