Buy-a-brick scheme builds funds for West Cork centre

It was launched just over a month ago, but a West Cork community’s visionary ‘buy-a-brick’ scheme has already raised one-third of a €15,000 target — money which will be put towards the cost of a job-creating entrepreneur incubation complex.

“We’ve had a phenomenal response to the initiative to date,” says Peter Walsh, chairman of Brookpark Enterprise Centre Ltd, the driving force behind the community project in Dunmanway.

Since the buy-a-brick-for-Brookpark was launched in early May, it had met with very strong support, he said: “We raised more than €5,000 — our target is €15,000 so we are really one-third of the way there.”