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Membership has grown to over 300 members creating an additional audience of approximately 160+ at Cork arts and cultural events.<br \/>\nFrom 2023-26 Cork Cultural Companions, aims to build on the positive response to the programme, and increase opportunities for participation by establishing further local hubs across the County.<br \/>\nThe programme aspires to develop and nurture sustainable and resilient networks of members that actively engage with the programme on a regular basis by attending events and helping to inform the types of events and frequency of attendance.<\/p>\n<p><span><span>Hub groups, steered by volunteer members, have this year been established in Bantry &#8211; serving West Cork &#8211; and Mallow, serving North Cork.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>The development of a further Cultural Companions\u00a0hub to serve East Cork is currently in the early planning stages with an expected launch in the third quarter of 2023<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25189,"template":"","class_list":["post-25188","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cultural Companions - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Launched in 2021, when events were online, Cork Cultural Companions was relaunched in the last quarter of 2022 with the establishment of Cultural Companion hubs or local networks.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/cultural-companions-9\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cultural Companions - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Launched in 2021, when events were online, Cork Cultural Companions was relaunched in the last quarter of 2022 with the establishment of Cultural Companion hubs or local networks. 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