The Tidy Towns clean up has moved from Saturday mornings to Thursday evenings at 6.30pm. We will meet for an hour on Thursday evenings for the summer months. New volunteers are always welcome, come either every week, or on the
Tidy Towns Thursday
Rent the Party Box
The Party Box is available to rent. €5 rental + €10 fully refundable deposit. Our Party Box has been in hiding but it is ready to make a comeback in line with restrictions lifting. If you are organising a birthday
New Notice Board
Collinstown Action Group and Collinstown Tidy Towns have teamed up to purchase a notice board for the village. The new notice board is located along the side of Carmel’s shop. This is available to all community groups for their posters and
Busy morning for Tidy Towns
Thank you to all the volunteers who helped at our Tidy Towns session this morning. There was great work done by the young volunteers lead by Aisling and Mary who cleaned the equipment in the playground. Damian and Martin spread
Minding our Orchards for National Tree Week
This year Collinstown Tidy Towns are taking time out during National Tree Week to look after our Community Orchards. We want our trees to fruit so we need to mind them. We removed the grass from around the bottom of
Spring Cleaning In Progress
Tidy Towns volunteers have been working hard picking litter on the approach roads to the village and in the village itself. There was great work done this weekend. Thank you to everyone who is helping out and it is great
Cleaning up Kilpatrick
24 bags of rubbish in 3.5k. Yes you read that right. Well done to the Brennan and Costello families who were out litter picking for the last two Sundays and collected a massive 24 bags of rubbish in 3.5k. This
Lockdown Litter Picking
Collinstown Tidy Town have not been able to hold their regular Saturday morning clean up for the past few weeks. Instead we have purchased a few new litter pickers and our wonderful volunteers have started doing “Lockdown Litter Picking” in
Collinstown Tidy Towns Plan 2020 – 2024
Earlier this year Collinstown Tidy Towns began working with Sharon Eastwood of Woodrow Sustainable Solutions Ltd to prepare our Long Term Plan for the tidy Towns Committee. This consultation was kindly supported by Westmeath Community Development. We held public meetings
A New Free Little Library for Collinstown
The Collinstown Free Little Library is proving very popular since we introduced it in May 2019, so much so we have decided to make it a little bigger. Thank you to Johnny Fitzpatrick from Collinstown Men’s Shed and his son