GREAT news! New location secured.

We are delighted that the Board of Management at Gorey Community School has approved our request for use of the schools facilities. Many thanks to Fintan Kemple one of the dads at the Dojo whom helped us with that. I wrote to the GSC board of management outlining CoderDojo Gorey's request for use of the school, they discussed it at their BOM meeting on 29th of January and Yes our ability to have more space and offer more tickets is solved!
However using the school is subject to two conditions:

• having insurance in place 
• staff being Garda vetted

One of the rules in the club is everything is free and open.

So our second piece of more amazing news...Aidan Clince another of the Dads has organised sponsorship for the insurance (yay for Dads at the dojo) . 

The sponsor a local business man, wants to remain anonymous. I want to publicly thank his philanthropic gesture as our children, teens and plenty of families in Gorey and North Wexford will benefit from his generosity. Lets play that one forward. Aidan and I will work on getting all the documentation required and having that in place as soon as possible.

So the second issue of Garda vetting technically we are all volunteers - mentors and background support for organisation, administration and communication. But to use the school facilities it is a criteria and having discussed it mentors and parents agree it is best practices and protects our child centered approach. That will be work in process lets see how to handle costs on that. 

So it looks like we can banish 'no ticket and waiting list' blues.