By Gearoid Fitzgibbon
The Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP) is the main state-funded community development programme in Ireland, with a budget of €63.4million.
It has a staff of around 3,000 and a wide range of social actions carried out by 51 Local Development Community.
A question of Image
These companies suffer an image/branding deficit. They all have individual names, and if locally recognised, are not readily identified by the general public as part of a single Government-funded programme.
My own organisation is the misfortunately titled 'North Tipperary LEADER Partnership”. Neither “LEADER” nor “partnership” are very intelligible to the general public.
