CLDC
Projects in Climate, Environment and Sustainability
CLDC is leading out on a number of local projects which directly contribute to climate action and climate justice, sustainability, and environmental solutions.
Clare Community Garden Network 2025
An initiative to support greater access, participation and development of community gardens across Clare. Countywide community garden needs analysis and networking events are currently underway; stay tuned (subscribe to our newsletter!) for more to come!
Community garden capacity building workshops
Provided around the county in community garden settings.
Thrive Together – Local Solutions to Food Waste
In collaboration with FoodCloud, CLDC ran a series of workshops to inspire and support communities to come together to identify local opportunities for food sharing projects that take action on food waste. Communities will be supported by CLDC in seeing these projects come to life.
Citizen Science Biodiversity Training Series – 2025-2026
Building on the past decade of work in the area of Biodiversity, CLDC (with funding from the LEADER rural development fund,) launched a free citizen-science biodiversity training series for community groups and individuals across Clare in May 2025.
‘Dive into Nature’ and ‘Explore the wild’ were the first two of many hands-on immersive sessions and were held at beautiful Lough Grainey in Flagmount and alongside the Inagh river in bustling and vibrant Ennistymon.
The focus was on increasing community awareness, developing practical skills for active engagement and strengthening the sense of stewardship and responsibility that already exists in the waters and on the land of our beautiful county.
Topics included Citizen Science methods and skills, Freshwater Ecology, Invertebrates, Land Management and Use and Invasive Species.
The training sessions were delivered by our partners Nature Network Ireland.
For Bookings and information contact dmorrissey@cldc.ie
Tidy Towns Network Support:
Tidy Towns groups in Clare play a pivotal role in enhancing the environmental and aesthetic quality of their communities, volunteer opportunities and social inclusion.
The overall aim of this programme commencing in September 2025 is a package of support including training and mentoring is to create a vibrant and sustainable network of Tidy Towns groups across Clare.
Support for Nature Based Solutions
Provision of grant support for community led nature based solutions to climate change.
Traditional skills training programmes
Provision of grant support for community orgainstations to upskill their community in a wide range of practical skills.