Main reasons

To reduce social exclusion, improve peoples quality of lives and encourage civic engagement and leadership

The programmes has proven to be effective and looks to address contributing factors of unemployment blackspots.

Volunteers contribute to improving the lives of young people, and to stregthening communities and civil society.

To ensure educational equity and inclusion.

To ensure that young people's voice is strengthened in local and national structures and forums

Support young people's physical and mental health and wellbeing

Support young people's physical and mental health and wellbeing, and their safety and security.

To ensure that young people are physically healthy and enjoy positive mental health and wellbeing.

Opportunity With a reinstatement of the inbound access from the south (M20), • it will contribute to the delivery of the 2040 National Planning Framework and the National Development Plan 2018-2027, targeting population growth of 50% by 2040 for Limerick. • it will contribute to the delivery of the strategic vision intended to guide the sustainable future growth of Limerick in this Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028. • Ballinacurra Weston and Southill will be reinvigorated as communities well located adjacent to Limerick city centre, with potentially high levels of accessibility. • The Southill area located immediately adjacent to the open countryside, o??ers possibilities to create a new urban edge, and visual and physical connections into this hinterland. • The strategic location and road infrastructure of Southill, represents a signifcant gateway location • for the city. • The Southill Regeneration area possesses large areas of unused or under-used land where early development can promote regeneration.

Opportunity With a reinstatement of the inbound access from the south (M20), • it will contribute to the delivery of the 2040 National Planning Framework and the National Development Plan 2018-2027, targeting population growth of 50% by 2040 for Limerick. • it will contribute to the delivery of the strategic vision intended to guide the sustainable future growth of Limerick in this Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028. • Ballinacurra Weston and Southill will be reinvigorated as communities well located adjacent to Limerick city centre, with potentially high levels of accessibility. • The Southill area located immediately adjacent to the open countryside, offers possibilities to create a new urban edge, and visual and physical connections into this hinterland. • The strategic location and road infrastructure of Southill, represents a signifcant gateway location • for the city. • The Southill Regeneration area possesses large areas of unused or under-used land where early development can promote regeneration.