In 2015 Mountrath Community Forum was established to serve the people of the Mountrath district and surrounding areas. The main aim was to promote the business and cultural life of the locality by working in partnership with existing groups and to act as an advocate in identifying and accessing funding for specific projects. Through collaboration with the Síol Foundation the community group works to further the cultural, environmental and business life of the area by facilitating the exchange of ideas and experiences.
Through the development of the BloomHQ project, the Mountrath Martial Arts & Fitness Academy and Community hub, the project works closely with community members to host community programmes like the School of Music, School of Grinds, an upcoming TechSpace Maker space and further education like adult digital literacy programmes and community care.
The project is wholly community-led and not funded through any state funding, therefore we rely solely on funds generated through our BloomHQ Digital Coworking Enterprise Hub.
BloomHQ is a social enterprise that funds the running costs of the project, employment of 5 staff, and the implementation of free to use basketball courts, tennis courts, town flower basket programme, and subsidised training courses. All funds generated through fundraising like our Golf Fundraiser all goes towards to further development of the project to allow us to hire more staff locally, develop more community education programmes, subsidise student grinds programmes, and the supply of equipment and space for coffee mornings for local retirees, and the establishment of sports programmes for Inclusive sports.
