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TASCQ – Basic Facts
Incorporated Nov 2003
96 members
10 directors
Full time employees: 8
TASCQ – Company Profile
TASCQ (Traders in the Area Supporting the Cultural Quarter Limited) is an independent non-profit company, established in November 2003. The company’s mission is to promote, maintain, enhance and protect the uniqueness of Temple Bar and to encourage positive partnerships between the commercial and cultural communities in the area.
Company Structure
TASCQ is a membership based company. Traders pay a voluntary annual membership fee and these funds are used to market Temple Bar and improve the physical environment in the area. Cost of membership is calculated on a case by case basis, taking type and size of business into consideration. Current annual subscriptions range from €800 per annum to €45,000 per annum. The company is set up in such a way as to ensure that larger businesses heavily subsidize the smaller members. All members receive the same level of service regardless of their membership fee. At present there are over 95 members of TASCQ including restaurateurs, hoteliers, publicans, retailers, cultural centers, charities and service providers. A full list of TASCQ members is available upon request.
TASCQ is governed by a board of ten directors. The company directors are democratically elected by TASCQ members at the company’s AGM. Seats on the board are allocated as follows:
Alpha category (i.e. members who pay an annual Subscription in excess of €10,000
4 seats
Beta category (i.e. members who pay an annual Subscription €3000 - €9,999)
3 seats
Gamma category (i.e. members who pay an annual Subscription €500 - €2,999)
3 seats
The board of directors meets on a quarterly basis. The current board of directors of TASCQ is:
Oliver Hughes (Chair), proprietor, The Porterhouse
Tom Cleary, proprietor, The Temple Bar Pub
Martin Harte, Consultant, Kovik Ltd
Paul Fitzpatrick, proprietor, The Morgan Hotel
Martin Keane, proprietor, The Oliver St. John Gogarty
Aoife Ní Dhonnacha, Marketing Manager, FXB Restaurant Group
Tom Maguire, proprietor, The Foggy Dew
Willie White, Artistic Director, Project Arts Centre
Michael Noonan, General Manager, Temple Bar Resident’s Association
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For further information, contact
Fiona Ní Chomáin, Marketing & Events Executive
TASCQ, 27 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, IRELAND
Tel: +353 (1) 677 2397
Mob: +353 (86) 041 7954
Email: fiona[at]tascq.ie
Temple Bar Tops in Dublin City
Temple Bar has emerged victorious in the annual Tidy Towns Competition, having been named last night Dublin City’s Tidiest area for the first time ever.
The Temple bar Tidy Towns project is organised and funded by local traders group TASCQ, who over the last five years have raised almost 2 million euro in voluntary contributions from local traders to support local environmental, cultural and marketing activities.
According to TASCQ Director Martin Harte, ‘This represents a huge achievement for the area and proves that Temple Bar can be a serious contender for top honours in the national tidy town’s competition’. Temple Bar scored 253 marks out of a possible 400 and in the process unseated last year’s winners, Raheny by just a single point. TASCQ employ 7 people on a full time basis including 5 street cleaning operatives who provide street washing and cleansing services in the area 7 days per week in addition to the service provided by Dublin City Council.
According to a recent An Tasice Litter Surveys Temple Bar is now the cleanest areas of Dublin City scoring an impressive 84%, 85 % represents litter free to European norms. TASCQ also organised the recent ‘Invoke Street Art’ competition which seen the areas utility boxes transformed into pieces of public art. Temple Bar attracts a whopping 70,000 visitors on a daily basis is home to 3000 residents and is one of Dublin’s’ premier tourist attractions.