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A successful personal developement programme designed initially to help the homeless in Galway is now available to the public.

Buskers playing loudly through PA systems and amplifiers are harming city businesses and preventing other buskers with acoustic instruments from being heard.

As demand for homeless services increases and funding cuts continue, this time of the year Midlands Simon Community needs your help more than ever.

COPE Galway welcomes the allocation of €30m to the State’s house building programme announced in Budget 2014 and the stated intention to seek public funding to provide “stable homes” for families who are long term homeless.

Midlands Simon Community may be one of the best performing homelessness services in the country but there was no good news when the housing minister Jan O’Sullivan attended their conference recently.

As part of Social Inclusion Week for Galway City, COPE Galway Resettlement and Tenancy Service will launch its Community Garden at the Towards Independence Project on the Dyke Road at 12 o’clock on Tuesday next October 15.

A NEW night for trad sessions, The Rainy Day Sessions, will take place every Friday night from 10pm to 12 midnight in Garavans Pub, Shop Street.

COPE Galway is calling on the Government to increase spending in the areas of housing and social protection and to protect the range of public and community services from further funding cuts in Budget 2014.

Kilmartins N6 Service Station and The Grove Service Station, Athlone have made a huge difference to people experiencing homelessness right throughout the Midlands by helping to raise over €7,000 for Midlands Simon Community.

The number of homeless people presenting to Galway County Council and other local authorities in the West is increasing with the complexity of cases described as very worrying, necessitating the implentation of a Regional Homeless Action Plan, which will shift the focus from the hostel model to providing a more permanent solution.