Friday Free … Cup of Tea (or Coffee 😊) on Valentine’s Day! On Friday, February 14th, between 9am and noon, why not meet a friend, or make a new friend, in a local café for a cuppa and a chat? Your beverage of choice (tea, coffee, or hot chocolate) will be paid for by Kinvara Alive. We extend thanks to Kinvara’s wonderful cafés for offering to take part in this initiative. (Please note that offer applies to sit-in drinks, rather than take-out).
KAVA events:
Feb 3rd & 19th Drawing Club 7pm
Feb 8th KAVA Konnect – Art of the Brush. Ink painting and Calligraphy workshop
Feb 5th, 12th, & 26th Yoga with Fionnuala 9.30am
Feb 28th KAVA Members Show
20 years of Scouting in Kinvara! This year, Kinvara Scout Group are celebrating 20 years of scouting that has seen a huge number of boys and girls in the area join as Beavers at the age of six, moving up through Cubs, Scouts, Ventures and some are still scouting as Rovers in their adult lives.
Throughout those years we have climbed mountains, potholed caves, built rafts, surfed & kayaked, cooked thousands of sausages, sang campfires songs, slept in hammocks, and camped with other Scouts in Ireland and abroad, and lots more!
Scouting is an amazing inclusive youth organisation supported by adult volunteers, with the aim of encouraging the physical, intellectual, character, emotional and social development of young people through outdoor adventure.
Interested? Youth members and adult volunteers are always welcome to join. Email kinvarascouts@gmail.com to find out more.
Kinvara and District SEC (Sustainable Energy Community) carried out our Energy Master Plan over the last 2 years and the results showed that the 2 highest contributors to carbon emissions in our area are home energy and transport. Having set up our first Solar Meitheal in December we have now set up a Sustainable Travel action group. This group will aim to encourage the use of active and public transport and will draw up actions to promote better use and better facilities for our area. We will be carrying out surveys to explore local priorities and working with students in Seamount College on this project. If you would like to be involved in our group please email us at kindissec@gmail.com.
Say Hello to your new Kinvara Community Choir: We will be coming together to gather and sing together under the expert guidance of group song leader Oonagh O’Sullivan. Each week promises a relaxed session where you will learn new songs; build confidence; have fun; and connect with others. The best part is there’s no experience needed! Just bring yourselves in comfy clothes, with your water bottle to the Kinvara Community Centre, ready to connect and have fun. Imbolc Term starts Thursday January 30, 7.30pm – 9pm. 6 week term: €60, Drop-in session: €15.
Kinvara Community Council: Our next monthly meeting will take place on Wednesday 15th January 2025. We encourage all members of the community to attend these meetings where discussion and debates on any items put forward on the agenda are always welcome. All sub groups who are affiliated to Kinvara Community Council must send a representative to every KCC meeting in order to maintain their benefits. Any items for inclusion on the agenda must be emailed in by Monday 13th January and you must be there to present your item.
Tidy Towns Kinvara say – Thank you, Mile Buiochas, Dyakuyu to our incredible volunteers for this year’s hard work and commitment to looking after our community and environment its unwavering and so heartening!❤️ Two national awards and 16 points of an increase, unreal achievements! To our youth groups and clubs who painted and got involved in projects, ye should be so proud as we are of you all. To the teachers in each school, we really appreciate your efforts and collaborations with Tidy towns, earth keepers and tree Gang. We are grateful and greatly enjoy our collaborations with our community and environmental groups. Finally to our businesses and wider community, your support of helping us to keep our village looking well and our sustainability initiatives are so important…thank you, thank you and forever thank you 😊
#shoplocalfirst2024 campaign: We ask all of our community to support our fourth ##shoplocalfirst2024 campaign kicking off December first. Our mission as SDG champions is to promote shopping local, reducing your green miles and looking after our environment. Let’s support the businesses who support our community, many, many clubs and groups all year. 💪
Meeting of Solar Meitheal on Monday December 16th at 7pm:We had a great turnout at the last meeting setting up the Kinvara and district Solar Meitheal at the end of which we have a group of 27 members interested in going ahead to install photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. We have now sent the names, contact numbers, and Eircodes to the 3 local PV contractors and we are expecting to get analysis done on a sample of quotes before the next meeting. So on the 16th we will have Dr Orla Nic Suibhne reporting the analysed results of the samples and giving us guidance on which is the most appropriate to sign up with.
Community members who did not attend the last meeting are welcome to attend and to see if they feel ready to go ahead with an application depending on what they learn. The date to keep in mind is the 31st December 2024 as if you are thinking of applying for the solar PV grant it will be reduced by 300 euros on that date,
There is no obligation on anyone to go ahead and you can use any of the installers when you are ready. Hopefully the analysis of the tenders will assist you in making that decision.