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Global Action Plan's environmental project in Ballymun is funded by Ballymun Regeneration Limited

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Aims

To encourage, promote, co-ordinate, participate and assist in sustainable development throughout Ireland through the development of community led projects that educate the public and increase the public awareness and understanding of social, economic and environmental issues with a view to promoting the cultural welfare of their area and to include the empowerment of specific groups to effectively participate in a programme of personal development.

Objectives

  1. To provide individuals with a step by step toolkit to reduce their ecological footprint through raising awareness within households about sustainable practice in energy use, waste disposal, water use, shopping patterns, transport use, healthy living and biodiversity.
  2. To support and mobilise local communities to take actions that support, reinforce and endorse the core principles of sustainability while applying the principals and aims of Local Action 21 to all projects we facilitate.
  3. To help individuals and communities asses the extent and nature of their impacts on the environment.
  4. To promote sustainable living and behaviour change in targeted communities with a special focus on disadvantaged areas.
  5. To engage with the ideas of local people for change and for the improvement of their local environment.
  6. To promote a forum for people to visualise and move their ideas into action.
  7. To provide training and professional development opportunities for all its employees and volunteers consistent with best practice.
  8. That all policies and services prohibit discrimination, harassment and victimisation on the grounds of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, political opinion, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Global Action Plan (GAP), Ireland is associated with Global Action Plan International, an organisation founded in 1990 to develop structured support for ordinary people who want to reduce their impact on the environment. The organisation now operates worldwide in 22 countries. Link to Global Action Plan International website.

Ballymun project, a brief history

In August 2000, Global Action Plan (GAP) Ireland was invited by Ballymun Regeneration Ltd (BRL), to work with the community in Ballymun, a town located in north east Dublin, home to approx 19,000 people. In May 2001, GAP established a base in Ballymun to focus exclusively on the community.

Since then the company has achieved wide acclaim for its pioneering work in environmental consciousness-raising. GAP’s programme in Ballymun is supported by Ballymun Regeneration Ltd, alongside Dublin City Council, as part of a Local Agenda 21 objective to engage and encourage communities to grow in more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable directions. GAP aims to raise environmental awareness and inspire local people to take initiative in Ballymun through a diverse number of projects and programmes.