STAR Awards WINNERS 2012

Winners - STAR AWARDS 2012

Read the press release. Read Age Actions' response to winning the Nationwide award.

Connaught

Croí na Gallimhe Resource Centre

The Resource Centre provides a social club for older people and provides educational and developmental
supports for young people together with a wide range of educational programmes for the wider adult
population. It also has a very active volunteer programme and an innovative intergenerational programme
of learning.

Munster

Limerick Community Education Network
Limerick Community Education Network (LCEN) is a network of on-the-ground providers of community education and statutory agencies in Limerick City. Its aim is to ensure the continuation and further development of quality learning opportunities for adults. It provides a mechanism for community education providers to identify learners' needs and to work together to provide appropriate learning opportunities in a co-ordinated manner.

Leinster

Knockmay Women's Voice Quilting Project

The aim of the project was for the Knockmay Women's Voice Group to build the capacity of local women living in poverty and social exclusion, to empower the local women to express their experience of poverty and social exclusion and their dreams for change. This was done through a quilt of creative imagery and poetry. The completed quilt was hung in the foyer of their brand new community resource centre which was built as part of the regeneration of the Knockmay estate in Co. Laois.

Nationwide

Getting Started Programme: Age Action Ireland

The Getting Started Programme teaches older people (over 50s), basic computer and Internet skills. Teaching takes place on a one to one basis and is done by volunteers. The individual attention from tutors, who all give their time for free, works very well with the older generation and builds their confidence and allows them to give this a go. These classes are taught in libraries, community centres, workplaces and in the Age Action offices.

Ulster

Destined Level 3 Award in Effective Management

Destined for Success is an innovative 4 day bespoke accredited learning and development programme which was delivered by NICVA (the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action) and which aimed at helping Destined's Directors and Management Team develop the skills needed to perform their duties as the decision makers for the organisation. Destined's core ethos is based on the involvement and full participation of its members with a learning disability in all aspects of activity and at all levels of the decision making process.