Objectives of FADA
The Objectives of FADA are:
- To organize for and to provide to local communities and individuals, training and education courses, public lectures, seminars, discussion forums, conferences and other events in relation to advancing environmental sustainability in Kildare.
- To collect and make available to local communities, research data, information, and educational material relating to environmental sustainability.
- To develop and make available to local communities and individuals tools, techniques and material resources relevant to advancing environmental sustainability
- To support and promote the alleviation of fuel poverty
- To advise and assist households and businesses in becoming more energy-efficient.
- To support and promote the local production of food and the consumption of locally produced food.
- To support and promote the development of community gardens and allotments on publicly owned land or land owned by charitable institutions.
- To support and promote Community-Supported Agriculture schemes, farmers markets, and food cooperatives.
- To support and promote the teaching of new and traditional crafts and skills which will become necessary to live and work in a more sustainable way.
- To enhance social inclusion by involving socially marginalised groups in the activities of the Company
- To foster working relationships with local statutory agencies and voluntary and community organisations.
- To become self-financing through sponsorship, membership and funding as a community development group with a sustainability/environmental focus.
- To rekindle Community Spirit by connecting various community groups
- To develop working relationships with local statutory bodies
- To develop working relationships local commercial groups and businesses
- To develop working relationships with local community groups
- To foster links with like-minded groups both within Ireland and around the world.
- To support and promote the Transition Towns movement and in particular the attaining of Transition Town Status by towns in the region.
