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Calpe Town Council has announced the grants for the promotion of sport 2023-2024, for which an amount of 235,000 euros has been earmarked, with rules that aim to promote, among other aspects, sports associations.

This aid, aimed at local sports organisations, has two lines: line 1 with aid for participation in official sports competitions and the promotion of local grassroots sport, and line 2 with aid for the organisation of sporting events.

One of the objectives of these bases is to promote the associationism and therefore to obtain 100% of a grant of more than 12,000 euros, the sports entity will be required to prove that it has a minimum of 100 members, otherwise the grant will be reduced to 75%. For grants of up to 12,000 euros, a minimum of 50 members will be required; if this figure is lower, the grant will be 75%.

Other assessment criteria are the number of sportspeople with an official federation licence or participants in the Jocs Esportius de la Comunidad Valenciana, the number of categories of the club, the type of competition or the qualifications of the coaches and medical-health staff, as well as the ownership of the sports facilities.

On the other hand, eligible expenses will include travel expenses for attending national competitions or those derived from the competition itself, such as refereeing, sports equipment, monitors' expenses, etc. All expenses derived from the organisation of the sporting event that is the object of the subsidy will also be considered eligible expenses. The promotion of local sports will also be considered.

The grants are aimed at sports organisations with registered offices in Calpe, which will be able to submit their applications from tomorrow 24th July until 7th August via the electronic office.

The Tourism Department of Calpe Town Council has launched a survey on business confidence in the municipality in order to find out the perception of businessmen on the evolution of the economic situation of the municipality. This initiative is one of the requirements of the Calpe Strategic Tourism Plan and the Smart Tourism Destination Master Plan.

The Business Confidence Indicators are an interim survey whose aim is to gather the opinions of company managers on the current situation, as well as the company's prospects for the future. The target population are the establishments with at least one worker, distributed throughout the municipality of Calpe and the survey will be carried out quarterly

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In the survey, aimed at a minimum of 200 companies, Calpe's entrepreneurs are asked to evaluate the turnover, employment, investment and price index of the last quarter, as well as their expectations for the following quarter. They are also asked about the factors limiting the activity of the business in question.

These surveys will make it possible in the long term to know how business confidence is evolving, to monitor business confidence by quarter and to compare it with the national and regional data.

The Tourism Department ohas sent a letter to businesses registered in the Commerce and Tourism databases announcing the initiative and asking for their collaboration. The survey is voluntary, and the Town Council is very positive about its implementation, which in the first series has already received more than 200 responses.

As every summer, the Town Hall reminds beach users of the Municipal Ordinance for the Use and Management of the Coastline which prohibits the installation of chairs, sunbeds or sunshades before 9:30 a.m. so as not to hinder the cleaning of the beaches.

This measure prohibits the indiscriminate occupation of the public domain and makes special reference to the occupation of the beach with elements such as chairs, deckchairs and parasols from the early hours of the day.

This trend makes it difficult to clean the beaches, so the ordinance establishes that all items installed on the beaches before 9:30 a.m. may be removed and the owners denounced.

The ordinance also states that umbrellas, chairs or deckchairs left for more than three hours without the presence of their owners throughout the day may be removed. If there is evidence of these elements being installed without the presence of a responsible person or owner, the Town Council, through the Local Police and its cleaning staff, may remove these elements from the beach and transfer them to the Municipal Depot.

For some years now, the Town Council has received numerous complaints during the summer about the reservation of space on the beach, as when users arrive at the beach mid-morning they find metres of beach occupied without the owners of the elements installed being present.

The removal by the owners of the items deposited at the Local Police checkpoint will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the tax ordinance regulating the police, good governance and taxation of non-sedentary sales.

Today we have welcomed the staff hired under the Local Employment Plan 2024. In this edition there are 47 workers hired through this plan that will run until the end of the year and has an investment of 1,000,000 euros. The main objective of the Employment Plan is to promote employability among groups with special difficulties for social and labour insertion.

The provision of these positions has been carried out by competition and the duration of the contracts is until the end of the year. A total of 47 posts have been offered with the following professional categories: 3 posts of caretaker in the Casa de Cultura, 6 posts of caretaker in Sports, 1 caretaker in schools, 6 posts of cleaning staff, 8 posts of labourer, 2 posts of animal collection service operator, 15 posts of environmental watchman, 5 posts of administrative assistant and 1 post of administrative assistant in the library.

To take part in this competition, the applicants had to be registered in the public employment service with a minimum of 3 months of uninterrupted seniority, be registered in Calpe and be at least 16 years old.

Given that the Employment Plan is a social measure of job creation, which tries especially to promote the employability of those groups with special difficulties for social and labour insertion, in the bases of the Plan prevail social criteria such as being a beneficiary of Social Services aid, being a large family, being a job seeker, etc... The Plan is endowed with €1,000,000 and will involve the temporary hiring of these staff until 31 December.

The Councillor for Human Resources, Paqui Solivelles, stressed the importance of this plan: "This initiative not only responds to the need to strengthen municipal services, but is also a firm commitment to support those who need it most. With this investment of one million euros, we are not only expanding our staff, but also contributing to the socio-economic development of Calpe. We are committed to employment policies that allow us to cover situations of vulnerability".