A bursary from Buttercrane shopping centre is set to benefit nine charities in the Greater Newry Area. Aiming to support vital community work across all age groups and backgrounds the scheme received a huge number of applicants. Within the Arts category, St Mary’s Youth Club received funding to give its proposed dance room a new lease of life. Dunnaman Children’s Centre a voluntary grass roots organisation run by local parents got funding for its Art Cart cross community project while the Young Ireland Fund will use its award to create public art work and local historical exhibitions. The Ballybot Community Association received a monetary award in the Environment Category and can now grow its ambitions to landscape and enhance a strip of land near Buttercrane for the benefit of the Newry public. In the Sports category Friends of St Patrick’s Primary School, Newry High Fliers Basketball team and Newry and Mourne Sub Aqua Club all received funding. A Buttercrane bursary also goes to PIPS Newry and Mourne and the local St John Ambulance service. Describing it as a Herculean task to choose the successful projects Peter Murray Buttercrane Centre Manager said: “We were astonished at how much vital and largely unsung work is going on in our midst and it is quite humbling to see how much local people give of themselves and their time to support the causes that are dear to their hearts.”
Newry Democrat
21st February 2012
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