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Closing date for Bealtaine event registration is 14 February

February 14th is the closing date for registering your events for the Bealtaine festival 2010. Bealtaine is our month-long festival that celebrates creativity in older age. This will be our fifteenth Bealtaine and it's already shaping up to be another exciting year.

A number of organisations have already sent back their registration forms. This is just a gentle reminder that you have until 14th of February to send us your completed registration form. If we get it by then, we can include your event in our Bulletin. The Bealtaine Bulletin gets distributed all over the country so we try to list as many events as possible.

You can still submit forms after that date but they may not make it to the Bulletin's printed listings. They will, however, go on our late listing on the Bealtaine website. The registration form is available from the Bealtaine website.

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Hear what she had to say.

740 groups nationwide will share an allocation of almost €350,000 under the ninth Go for Life National Grant Scheme for Sport and Physical Activity for Older People.

Read more about the Grant Scheme.

Ann Healy from the Southside Partnership talks about running Ageing with ConfidenceThe Southside Partnership have run a number of Ageing with Confidence programmes.

Listen to what Ann Healy says about her experience of taking part.

 A major independent evaluation of Bealtaine has been conducted by the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG), National University of Ireland, Galway.

Read more on the Bealtaine evaluation.

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