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Grants for a course?

  • 09-02-2013 8:13pm
    #1
    G.Murphy
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭


    I am intrested in doing a course like this one: http://thefitnessacademy.ie/

    BUT the problem is I am unemployed after having only xmas work and ony come out with 100e a week BEFORE bills and rent and the course is 1950e...

    I cannot afford this course and FAS/Social Welfare both turned me down and told me that they do not fund courses...

    the course provider has told me some of the other lads have been getting help with grants and that.


    has anyone any advice on this? is there somewhere that will help me fund this course?
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  • #2
    Gee_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    G.Murphy wrote: »
    I am intrested in doing a course like this one: http://thefitnessacademy.ie/

    BUT the problem is I am unemployed after having only xmas work and ony come out with 100e a week BEFORE bills and rent and the course is 1950e...

    I cannot afford this course and FAS/Social Welfare both turned me down and told me that they do not fund courses...

    the course provider has told me some of the other lads have been getting help with grants and that.


    has anyone any advice on this? is there somewhere that will help me fund this course?
    Social welfare do fund training courses or give you about 75% funding if the training is going to further your education and help you get employment!


  • #3
    G.Murphy
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭G.Murphy


    Gee_G wrote: »
    Social welfare do fund training courses or give you about 75% funding if the training is going to further your education and help you get employment!

    Went down Friday and they told me they did away with that over a year ago but the course provider said the other lads are getting grants. No way I could afford the course without a grant. :mad:


  • #4
    Gee_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    G.Murphy wrote: »

    Went down Friday and they told me they did away with that over a year ago but the course provider said the other lads are getting grants. No way I could afford the course without a grant. :mad:
    I've just been approved for funding, like last week! Get back onto them again! Ask them to give you a name of someone to deal with in your local Employment services dept.


  • #5
    G.Murphy
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭G.Murphy


    Gee_G wrote: »
    I've just been approved for funding, like last week! Get back onto them again! Ask them to give you a name of someone to deal with in your local Employment services dept.

    Unreal they are, thanks I'll head down Monday and speak with someone else!
    cheers :)


  • #6
    Gee_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    G.Murphy wrote: »

    Unreal they are, thanks I'll head down Monday and speak with someone else!
    cheers :)
    No problem. I know how ya feel :)
    Good luck!


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  • #7
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Is there a local employment service near you? they are much better than fas

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #8
    G.Murphy
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭G.Murphy


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Is there a local employment service near you? they are much better than fas

    There is a obair just down the road. Do i just go in and explain that fas or the welfare wont fund it and do they do grants or help fund it?

    Thanks


  • #9
    Cliona99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Cliona99


    Try to get in touch with your local Jobs Facilitator. I found them really knowledgeable and helpful. They gave me 75% of the fees for a course. (Though that was two years ago and only €400 in total).

    If you can show that the course is likely to lead to employment you're in with a better chance. Friends of mine have looked for help paying for a TEFL course and were told down.

    If it doesn't work out, maybe try setting up a payment plan with the providers? Or ask the credit union for a loan?

    Best of luck.


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