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Within days of being announced in the last week’s papers 40 youth training jobs offered by the two city family centres and FÁS have been snapped up, leading to calls from community leaders for similar initiatives for the hundreds of young Kilkenny people with few employment prospects who are still on the dole.

A unique partnership between FÁS and city housing communities, supported by Kilkenny County Council’s RAPID programme, is to create a pilot employment training scheme to take 40 young men off the dole.

The Fr McGrath Centre and Newpark Close FRCs will be at the forefront on a new government drive to raise IT literacy skills and help improve Irish people’s employment skills for the 21st century labour market.

Newpark Close Family Resource Centre is holding a Family Fun Day at the Newpark Sports Field on Saturday August 27 between 2-4 pm.

Responding to local demand the Butts Savings Bank at the Fr Mc Grath Centre, now in its fifth year, is changing its opening hours from 7 -8pm to Thursday 6.30- 7.30pm as of this week.

Graduates 4 International Growth (G4IG), developed and delivered by Enterprise Ireland in partnership with UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, gets underway this week. Enterprise Ireland is placing 50 top-level graduates in export-led firms with markets across the globe, creating graduate job opportunities and helping boost export sales.

Would you like to improve your fitness levels in a fun, sociable environment? Kilkenny Recreation and Sports Partnership have teamed up with various groups and individuals to offer a wide range of programmes to suit people of all ages and abilities.

Representatives from the College of Progressive Education, one of Ireland’s leading care training colleges providing courses in childcare, montessori, healthcare, special needs assistant and train the trainer leading to FETAC qualifications, will be in the Newpark Hotel from 5pm on February 9, 2011 to discuss the range of courses available.

Kilkenny Lions Club has been running the Lions Club Wine Fair event for 12 years now and is hopeful that this year’s event will be the best so far.

Staff at Kilkenny’s family resource centres are hopeful this week that following a visit from Pat Carey, minister of community, equality and gaeltacht affairs, the future may be a little brighter for the troubled centres.