About Us

Meath LEADER as an organisation has always been dedicated to rural development in the county but the organisation will survive and prosper only in so far as it accurately identifies its customer needs and mobilises its resources to serve these customers productively. With this in mind, the board and staff of Meath LEADER continually look for new and innovative ways to improve the circumstances of the communities of the county.

The concept behind PEOPLE+ developed gradually over many years. Through its work over the last ten years delivering the LEADER Programme, Meath LEADER noticed that a large bank of latent skills exists within the county that are either underused or unused. The individuals with these skills include the underemployed, homemakers, women and young people as well as the longer term unemployed.

Many of these people have skills they would be willing to use but are restricted for a variety of limiting factors such as availability of childcare or transport, skills level, computer proficiency or disability. It was identified that they need a system where they can source potential jobs. Similarly, there are many individuals and businesses that have occasional, part-time or seasonal job opportunities but find it difficult to source available labour. Meath LEADER identified the need for a system that could capture all of this information and match suitable local people with local jobs, hence the development of the PEOPLE+ system.

The core aim is to provide training, skills enhancement and a computer based system through which income earning opportunities can be realised. The objective is to use computer based technology in rural communities as a means of seeking real employment opportunities and raising the awareness of the benefits that technology can provide to those who would not normally be associated with this technology.

PEOPLE+ is based on the principle of starting with what people have and building on what they know. It has the potential to enable members of farming families and other members of the broader rural community to identify their own capacity to increase income in a sound and sustainable manner.

Meath LEADER
Tom Blake House
Bective Street
Kells
Co. Meath
Ireland
T: 046 9280790
F: 046 9249338
W: www.meathleader.ie