Aideen organises a get active session every Wednesday between 2pm - 3pm for the trainees in the centre.  This week we had a great boxing class with Maeve!  Well done to all that took part!

Thanks to Daithi Lavelle for facilitating a very enjoyable bird box making workshop in our outdoor creative space funded by Creative Ireland, Sligo.  It was a great opportunity for trainees to reconnect with nature!  

Thanks to Sarah, The Cake Lady for sharing her sugar craft expertise of decorating Christmas cakes with the catering trainees today. The cakes look amazing!  

Last Friday Leitrim CTC held their annual certification day. Thanks to James McLoughlin, Assistant Manager MSLETB for presenting the certificates and to guest Speaker Paul Reid, Chairperson, Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use for giving a fantastic speech on the day. ...

Veronica and the hairdressing trainees were getting into the Christmas spirit today making sustainable Christmas decorations and hair tinsel!  Aidan is working on a lovely Christmas scene using digital art!  

Aideen was teaching some of the trainees sewing this morning using sewing machines. Amy is working on dolls clothes, Sarah and Chloe are following a pattern to make a teddy bear! Thanks to Local Creative Youth Partnership Coordinator and MSLETB for the sewing...

Making badges workshop with Catherine in support of Stand Up Week!  

There is plenty of activity going on in the centre this week for Stand Up Awareness Week!  

Trainees had an enjoyable morning carving pumpkins with Catherine, art tutor and getting into the Halloween spirit!  Check out the fabulous pumpkins with video by Aidan.  

Today we are celebrating Lá Gaisce at the CTC.  Amy, Aidan, Said and Abdulmanan were  planting Spring bulbs for community involvement  for their Gaisce Bronze Awards and Amy was also doing some digital drawing for her personal skill.  

A  snapshot from certification day 2023 - thanks to the photographer Carl Brennan and to Amy, computer trainee for putting this video together!  

Thanks to  Angela Horgan, YSI Local Leader and Mary O'Hara YSI Co-ordinator for presenting the YSI Awards to learners at the Certification day.  Well done to Robbie, Jules, Chloe, Tori, Oliwia and Yazn on receiving their award.  This YSI project was a pilot programme...

Thanks to Martina Kilian, Nature Inspires and Aideen, PAL for presenting the Gaisce Bronze Awards at the Certification day. Congratulations to Robert, Tori, Jules, Oliwia, Chloe and Yazn on receiving their Gaisce Bronze Award.  

Congratulations to Sharif Sadat and Bradley Fowley who achieved the Melly Daly Personal Achievement Award this year. This Award recognises outstanding personal achievement and is named in honour of our late friend and colleague Melly Daly.  Sharif and Bradley also...

Today is World Mental Health day and the computer group had a lovely relaxing morning getting outside to the garden, colouring, painting and drawing in our outdoor classroom, mindfulness with the Sanctuary's '30 day meditation challenge' and some nature photography...

Thanks to Helena, Willow Woman for providing another lovely willow weaving workshop yesterday, this week the trainees make bird feeders! With thanks to LCYP for funding the workshops under their Creative Youth Grant Scheme 2023.  

Today a group of trainees and Catherine visited 'The Mind's Eye' Exhibition at Hyde Bridge Gallery with the very talented Wayne O'Connor as part of culture night. Wayne O'Connor is a Sligo based artist whose work is inspired by his love of Myth, Fantasy and Folklore....

Last Tuesday on the 12th of September 5 Gasice members went to a lovely trip out by the Ox Mountains along with their Gaisce Pal Aideen and Lisa. We were doing the Gaisce adventure journey overnight at a place called the Ox Mountains Glamping outside Tubbercurry, Co...

A group of trainees completed their bronze award adventure journey this week with an overnight trip to Ox Mountain Adventure Centre glamping which was a fantastic experience.  Martina from Nature Inspires gave us a guided walk in the forest, we visited Mass rock and...

This week the trainees went to Sligo Woodland School for a very enjoyable morning doing bushcraft skills in the forest with Trisha MacLaughlin, we lit a fire, toasted marshmallows, relaxed on the hammocks and swing, mining, archery, exploring the forest and garden. ...

We had our annual sports/fun day on Wednesday with plenty of fun activities and games. Thanks to Leitrim CTC for joining us.  We finished off the day with a welcome visit to the centre from the ice  cream van!