The Tidy Towns competition is a well known and well loved national competition organised by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The competition involves participating towns being rated on all aspects of their local environment including litter control.
As the national Tidy Towns competition moves towards it’s 50th anniversary in 2008, Repak is delighted to continue its positive sponsorship arrangement with the DoEHLG and Ireland’s premier local community initiative, dedicated to ‘caring for the environment’.
In addition to the sponsorship of the 7 Regional Awards, Repak has again committed to the sponsorship of the new award for the ‘best presented and maintained bring bank site in each region’. This attracts a prize of €1,000 for the winner in each region and takes account both of presentation and utilisation by the local community in its evaluation. Certainly this award has complimented the existing Repak grant scheme which offers assistance to any local authority which is anxious to establish new bring bank sites in its area.
Speaking at the official launch on April 24th, Minister of State, Mr. Batt O'Keeffe TD, said "Last year a number of changes were introduced to strengthen Tidy Towns as it heads towards its fiftieth anniversary in 2008. This led to an unprecedented level of interest from communities all around Ireland and we hope that many of those who contacted the Department for information will go on to develop their ideas, form committees and take part this year”.
“2007 sees this programme of change continuing, with a particular emphasis on how to involve more communities and how to provide greater supports to existing participants”, he continued.
As the second biggest sponsor after Supervalu, Repak receive significant recognition of their sponsorship from the DoEHLG, LA’s, and the large dedicated teams of volunteers involved in the competition annually; as well as national media coverage, and accordingly have an effective opportunity to liaise with community leaders around the country and inform them of our activities and ambitions.
As the national Tidy Towns competition moves towards it’s 50th anniversary in 2008, Repak is delighted to continue its positive sponsorship arrangement with the DoEHLG and Ireland’s premier local community initiative, dedicated to ‘caring for the environment’.
In addition to the sponsorship of the 7 Regional Awards, Repak has again committed to the sponsorship of the new award for the ‘best presented and maintained bring bank site in each region’. This attracts a prize of €1,000 for the winner in each region and takes account both of presentation and utilisation by the local community in its evaluation. Certainly this award has complimented the existing Repak grant scheme which offers assistance to any local authority which is anxious to establish new bring bank sites in its area.
Speaking at the official launch on April 24th, Minister of State, Mr. Batt O'Keeffe TD, said "Last year a number of changes were introduced to strengthen Tidy Towns as it heads towards its fiftieth anniversary in 2008. This led to an unprecedented level of interest from communities all around Ireland and we hope that many of those who contacted the Department for information will go on to develop their ideas, form committees and take part this year”.
“2007 sees this programme of change continuing, with a particular emphasis on how to involve more communities and how to provide greater supports to existing participants”, he continued.
As the second biggest sponsor after Supervalu, Repak receive significant recognition of their sponsorship from the DoEHLG, LA’s, and the large dedicated teams of volunteers involved in the competition annually; as well as national media coverage, and accordingly have an effective opportunity to liaise with community leaders around the country and inform them of our activities and ambitions.
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