Category: Appeal

2026 Contribution Collection on Sept. 5th

Thanks for your support in 2025; we hope that you can be as supportive this year. Also we would like to thank residents who have already made their 2026 contribution; it is much appreciated.

We will be at the entrance of Ashefield on Saturday September 5th, 2026 from 10am to 2pm and available to collect contributions directly for the annual upkeep of the estate. You can also meet members of the committee, get involved, and ask questions.

The requested contribution is just €30 this year. You can see how this money is spent on estate upkeep from this website – we publish our accounts each year.

Our IBAN is IE02 MURU 99100 233253004 if you prefer that option instead.

We hope you can contribute as every euro is needed to fund the upkeep of the estate each year and without your help, we would not be able to do it.

2026 Ashefield Residents Contribution Collection

Thanks for your support in 2025 and we hope that you can be as supportive this year. Thanks once again to those that already made their 2026 contribution either via PayPal, bank transfer, or direct to a committee member.

The collection is summarised as follows.

  • Residents Contributions; €1,481
  • Westmeath County Council Grant €450
  • Mullingar Credit Union Grant & Dividend €205

The full accounts for 2025 are available online at www.ashefield.com. As most of you know the requested contribution of €20 went unchanged from 2013 to 2024. We reluctantly increased the request from €20 to €30 per house over the last two years. Even with this increase, the requested contribution is the cheapest in Mullingar where €50 to €100 is typical in most estates.

The cost cutting the grass in the estate was €2,068 in 2024 whereas the total amount collected was €2,136. Due to the increased contributions of the residents, we took in more last year than we spent in 2025. Therefore, we can leave the requested 2026 contribution unchanged at €30, so thanks again everyone. 

To make things easier we have also set up a PayPal account on www.ashefield.com into which your contribution may be paid. Payment may also be made directly to committee members for which a receipt will be issued.

Our IBAN is IE02 MURU 99100 233253004 should you prefer to use bank transfer as a method.

We would encourage this method as it means that your contribution is received in full; as PayPal deduct a charge from each payment.

Your contribution is very important. It falls back on us as a community to maintain and improve the common areas such as the green areas within the estate. We are sure you will agree that the estate’s green areas provide both a valuable and relatively safe play area for the estate’s children and their friends.

We realise that time is precious, so therefore we appreciate all and any help you can give. This can involve calling on retailers to collect abandoned shopping trolleys or picking up litter in your area.

Kind Regards

Ashefield Residents Association

2025 Accounts

Ashefield Residents Association publishes its statement of accounts each year. In 2025, we started with an opening balance of €968.18. Maintaining the common areas – specifically grass cutting – comprised all the expenditure throughout the year apart from a small amount of tax due to dividends as well as the account fee. We ended the year with a balance of €1036.

If you contributed, sincere thanks to you. We also wish to thank Mullingar Credit Union and Westmeath Co. Co. for their grant awards. As you can see from the accounts, it is not possible to cover the essential common area grass cutting costs without their and your generous help. If you wish to help with the costs for 2026, please consider donating securing via our Paypal link on this website or via a bank transfer.

The IBAN for Ashefield Residents Assocation is IE02MURU99100233253004

Please remember to note your house number in the payee message so we know who contributed and can issue a receipt. Receipts are issued automatically via Paypal if using that option.

2025 Collections for Estate Common Area Upkeep

Hello residents and friends,

We are collecting annual donations for 2025 to cover the upkeep costs of the common areas of the estate that are the responsibility of all us residents. The bulk of the annual cost is grass cutting for all the estate common green areas.

As with previous years, we try to keep the cost to the absolute minimum. However, due to increasing costs and dwindling reserves as you can see for yourself in our published accounts, the 2025 contribution per household has been increased to €30.

The accounts summary for the residents association is published on this site for transparency and visibility. We wish to thank everyone who can contribute to the upkeep of the estate common areas.

You can click the button below to contribute securely using Paypal. Please note that an additional €1.50 is added to this to cover the Paypal charge.

Annual donations due

Hello residents and friends,

We are collecting annual donations for 2023 to cover the upkeep costs of the common areas of the estate that are the responsibility of all us residents. The bulk of the annual cost is grass cutting for all the estate common green areas.

As with previous years, we try to keep the cost to the absolute minimum. The accounts summary for the residents association is published on this site for transparency and visibility.

The suggested donation per household is €20 – unchanged from previous years despite the rapid rises in living & energy costs.

We can accept payment securely via Paypal or in person to a committee member. Please note that Paypal deducts a charge from the donation and this amount has increased. We have been forced to add a €1.50 handling charge per donation to cover that. Click the ‘Buy Now’ button to donate.

Thanks again for all your support from Ashefield Residents Association

Annual contributions towards the upkeep of common areas in Ashefield

Hello all, you can use this direct link to contribute towards the upkeep of the estate: paypal.me/ashefield

Many thanks to everyone who contribute – we publish the accounts of Ashefield Residents Association every year and review them in the AGM. Your valuable contribution goes towards the upkeep of estate common areas that are the responsibility of the residents e.g. grass cutting and general maintenance.

Community Clean-Up – Saturday May 14th

Ashefield Residents’ Association is asking your help with an estate clean up on Saturday May 14th, 2016 starting at 4pm starting in the area of houses 122-130. We would great appreciate residents to volunteer some time – even if you can only spare 30 mins – to help with the following:

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  • Mowing and edge trimming of footpath grass margins.
  • General tidy around your own house, including the footpath and common areas.
  • Hedge cutting including & removal of dead leaves.

We’d like to encourage as many residents as possible to join us on the day. It’s also a great way to get to know your neighbours and the shared tasks will make the job easy on everyone.

Look forward to meeting you on the day. Many thanks.

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Annual Fund Raising Collection

Dear Resident,

The 2015 Ashefield Residents Annual Fund Raising Collection has commenced. The funds collected are used in the upkeep of the common areas in the estate. The main expense incurred is the grass cutting in the large green areas.

With a view to continuing this work the Resident Association Committee Members have commenced visiting home in the estate requesting a contribution of €20 per household (reduced from €30 in 2013). To make things easier we have a PayPal account on www.ashefield.com into which your contribution may be paid.

(It cost over €1300 to cut the grass and do other minor repairs in 2014. We post details of the accounts on this website

The collection has been well supported in the past and we are sure that we can rely on your support once again this year. We realise that we all have extra pressures due to Household Charge and Property Tax. However despite home owners paying these the County Councils are not providing any additional services. Therefore as always the responsibility falls on all the residents to keep the common areas.

This requests is being made to all residents; be the renting their home or are it’s owner. However if those renting their home feel that this request is better directed to their landlord we would appreciate if they forwarded this note to their landlord.

Adversely affected by the economic crisis? – request for participation

Hi all – received the following request for input from residents of Mullingar:

A European Research project conducted through Maynooth University involving 8 other countries is looking at how families and households are coping after the financial crisis.

RESCuE is trying to understand how families who have been adversely affected by the economic crisis “bounce back”? We are interested in how families have adapted to face recent challenges to help them get by and challenges they may be struggling with.

Maynooth University is part of a nine-country European consortium that is investigating resilience among families and households in urban and rural areas across Europe. We are listening to the voices of ordinary people coping with the economic crisis. The project aims to assist social institutions and policy makers to learn from those experiences and to develop better strategies for supporting families and households in the future.

www.rescueproject.eu

For more details, please see the Brief overview of the RESCuE project and a RESCuE project poster with contact details

RESCuE

If you are interested in participating, please contact:

Dr. Jennifer Dagg
RESCuE: Citizens’ Resilience in times of crisis
NIRSA, Ionta Building, North Campus

jennifer.dagg [AT] nuim.ie

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