The second workshop of the Town Team Capacity Building Programme took place in the Brockagh Resource Centre, Laragh on Saturday the 2nd of November.

The Capacity Building Programme is being completed as part of the Town Centre First initiative to help develop and strengthen the established Town Teams in County Wicklow.

This workshop, hosted by Wicklow County Council under the stewardship of Urban Mode Ltd, concentrated on Learning Activities and was attended by the Town Teams of Blessington, Greystones & Wicklow Town.

John Horan of the Blessington Town Team delivered a presentation on how the Blessington Town Team was established and how they delivered the Blessington TCF Masterplan.

Pascal Burke of the Wicklow Town Team presented on the establishment of the Wicklow Town Team Team and how the team have been successful in attaining funding to execute significant pre-identified projects for Wicklow Town.

Following the presentations, the three Teams broke into groups to network amongst the other Town Teams and discuss their learnings and takeaways from the session.

The next stage of the programme incorporates site visits to Blackrock and Balbriggan in the coming weeks for a walk around, learnings and discussions on the transformations of of these towns.

A huge thanks to all who attended on Saturday and we look forward to continued development and learning as the programme progresses