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Future of Irish Centre
Our future in the Recreation Centre in uncertain.
While we very much like the location, the facilities available to us are completely inadequate. The Council have informed us that the Carnival Arts Development Trust have applied for Lottery funding for development of the site as a National Carnival Development Centre for Luton. Whether they will be successful in their bid in uncertain. The Council however have agreed that they have a moral obligation to find alternative accommodation to house The Luton Irish Forum. Our Executive will be keeping in close touch with the Council to look after our interests.

Business plan.
We recently sought the advice of a business consultant to look at our organisation. As a result a business plan is being drawn up. The range of work being carried out with one paid member of staff (at present on Maternity leave) puts a lot of hard work on the shoulders of unpaid committee members. We badly need the participation and support of our younger generation. Are you listening?

Questionnaire: Luton’s Irish dimension
The Luton Irish Forum have commissioned a study on the Irish community in Luton and district. The aim is to find out more about our community, in order that services and facilities can be provided for Irish people of necessary, and that service providers can know more about the community. The research is being carried out by The Rehab Group an independent not for profit organisation, working for social and economic inclusion. The conclusions and report of the study should be available by the end of March 2004. You will therefore be hearing more about the study in the near future. The research was financed by S.

Mayo Holiday
You just cannot keep our more mature members away from County Mayo. Led by the Mayo Association (Luton), the Mayo Emigrants Liaison Committee, and the Luton Irish Forum got together to send a group of sixty to Castlebar in mid Sept: 2003. We stayed at the Welcome Inn and joined up with groups from Birmingham, Manchester and London.