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Know Your Rights: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance

WCP Staff June, 2022

I am currently on Jobseekers Allowance. Is there a payment to help with the costs of children going to school? The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BTSCFA) helps you meet the cost of uniforms and footwear for children going to school. Your child must be aged between 4-17 […]

Columnists

Pride in West Cork

BRÓD June, 2022

By Mark Holland June is Pride month and this year it’s all happening at the Community and Family Resource Centre in Skibbereen. We often gets asked at workshops why would someone be proud of being LGBTI+; what are you being proud about? We usually frame the answer within the context […]

Culture

Feast of contemporary folk music served up on Camus Farm

WCP Staff June, 2022

An open air performance area is the latest exciting development on Camus Farm – a 30-acre organic holding in Ardfield, Clonakilty – which this summer will host two outdoor concerts or ‘Fair Days’ of contemporary folk music. On June 5, Camus will welcome Lorkin O’Reilly; I Have A Tribe; O […]

Pinking up a favourite tipple

Karen Austin June, 2022

Berlin in early summer is full of Horse Chestnut trees in blossom. Some of the trees are immense – as tall as five storey buildings; and when the wind blows the pink blossoms come down like confetti, falling everywhere, sometimes landing into the glasses of the people drinking on the […]

Ireland’s only legally protected butterfly

WCP Staff June, 2022

Branch Committee Member Damaris Lysaght writes about the fascinating and endangered Marsh Fritillary butterfly. For most of the year the Marsh Fritillary butterfly exists as a caterpillar. It is only on the wing from the last week or two of May until the around the end of June; a case […]

Environment

Greening the bathroom

Lauren Guillery June, 2022

One of the first things I did when I started my journey to a more sustainable lifestyle was to look at the consumption of plastic items in my daily life. Initially invented to ‘protect the natural world from the destructive forces of human need’; the revolutionary material that we now […]

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