The Attic House Teen project is a volunteer led and managed youth service in Longford town. The Attic House engages with over 400 young people each week through youth clubs, drop in service, programmes, activities and events. The Attic generates a small income through room rental and receives grants from the HSE, ETB and Longford County Council. While Longford County Council supports our work, we fail to be recognised at a National level and do not receive the much needed core funding to alleviate the financial pressures arising from the day to day running of the campus and to ensure the service continues to provide the vital supports to our young people.
For a number of years we have been successfully generating essential income by way of our now annual HYPE Festival and regular youth discos to ensure our youth service remains open and available to young people. However due to COVID 19, much to the disappointment of the thousands of young people who attend every year, we had to cancel our HYPE festival as well as a number of other fundraisers.
