The Formentera Office of Social Welfare is pleased to announce that from today requests are being accepted for special funding to help elderly islanders and people with disabilities. Available assistance totals €16,000.
Applicants must meet assorted terms, such as living on the island and being 65 or older or having a recognized disability of 33 % or higher. The money may be used toward wheelchairs, glasses, contact lenses, dental prostheses, hearing aids, hospital beds or services like physiotherapy, motricity and speech therapy treatments.
A review committee will weigh applications and unlock up to €2,900 per category per awardee. Original bills must be presented for expenses incurred, and they must be dated between 1 June 2020 and 31 May 2021.
Terms of eligibility can be found in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) and on the Consell de Formentera website and bulletin board. The deadline on submissions is 30 September 2021, and applications should be dropped off at the FOSW (Conselleria de Benestar Social) or the Citizen’s Information Office (OAC).
3 September 2021
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera
The Formentera Office of Culture is pleased to report that Guitarres de Formentera will return to Sant Ferran from 10 to 12 September. Guitarres de Formentera is a festival of blues, jazz and rock music, which has already become an unmissable event of the summer season on the island. The festival, which is organised by the Guitarres de Formentera association with collaboration from the Consell de Formentera, is now in its twelfth year.
The Formentera Office of Sports is pleased to announce a host of camps in areas like swimming, athletics, tennis, archery and sailing that will take place this October in municipal buildings. Designed to accompany young ones as they discover the world of sport or enhance their technical prowess, the camps exist thanks to partnership agreements between the Consell de Formentera and various hometown sports clubs.
This Friday, 3 September, artist Anna Ametller will unveil “Reconnectant”: a showcase of the Formentera-based and Catalonia-born creator’s takes on women, plants, landscapes, the seafloor, birds and other animals that conjure feelings of connection and communion with nature. The pieces are fashioned with varying materials: iron, wood, stones and other found objects.