The First Fortnight Team look forward to welcoming you to our festival 2025. We cannot wait to connect with you, our audience, and after months of planning, we want to share the stories we have seen, heard and experienced with some remarkable artists.

We are looking for a Systems Admin Support Person to assist with our ERK & HRIS systems. Strong IT skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work both independently & collaboratively.

Applications are now open for the Music Capital Scheme 2024 Piano Award to support the purchase/refurbishment of concert standard grand pianos by arts venues and music presenters. A total fund of €180,000 is available through the award.

Over 10,000 young people have benefited from cardiac screening this year because of the Dillon Quirke Foundation – the charity established to reduce the number of young people dying from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS).

Sonas is seeking a Board member with a background in domestic, sexual and gender-based violence service delivery, or related frontline engagement.

In 2024, the Regulator commissioned its second major independent research to examine the Irish retail sector’s compliance with rules governing the sale of National Lottery products to under 18's. The purpose of this research exercise is to test whether the measures taken by the Operator are sufficient to prevent children purchasing National Lottery products.

The ISPCC provides a range of services to children and families - Childline, Teenline, Missing Children Hotline, Smart Moves, Digital Mental Health & Wellbeing Shield, Childline Therapeutic Support, Outreach Programme, Youth Participation amd ISPCC Support Line.

SPARK Youth Arts Festival is a national event to explore, discuss and celebrate the inspiring world of youth arts practice in youth work in Ireland. Take part and spark your interest in developing youth arts activities with young people and embedding youth arts practice in your work!

While the forthcoming pension auto-enrolment scheme will increase pension coverage, it will not address the structural inequalities faced by women in our pension system and may even make them worse. This is one of the key findings of a new report “Still stuck in the Gap – Pensions Auto-enrolment from a Gender and Care lens” by the National Women’s Council.

FASD Ireland wants everyone to enjoy the holiday season, however, please to avoid the risk of FASD to your baby, please remember that NO amount of alcohol is safe to drink in the six weeks before conception or at any time during pregnancy.

Selection by Design offers two unique opportunities to become professionally accredited in psychometric testing as 2025 begins! Join us to enhance your assessment skills, and earn the EFPA/British Psychological Society qualifications of Occupational Test User or Forensic Test User.

The ideal candidate should have a strong interest in advocacy, as well as experience in an advocacy role either paid or in a voluntary capacity within the charity sector.

The Wheel is delighted to share some good news! Training Links, a workforce development funding and support programme, is now open for applications. Since 2005, Training Links has funded the training and upskilling needs of staff, volunteers and board members in the community and voluntary sector.

Active Retirement Ireland ─ the largest membership organisation for older people in the country ─ has called on those in the next government for greater support for initiatives that promote ageing well.

Almost three out of four young people aged 14-29 in Ireland (73 per cent) are anxious when thinking about climate change, while one out of three are feeling hopeful regarding climate action. That’s according to newly released interim findings from the 2024 Youth Climate Justice Survey.

Interim Chief Medical Officer, Professor Mary Horgan, today announced the results of the Healthy Ireland Survey 2024. Supported by the Department of Health, the annual survey by Ipsos B&A gives an up-to-date picture of the health of the nation, reporting on many health-related lifestyle behaviours.

Blackwater Training are looking for one passionate change maker to join us in challenging global issues, exploring European Identity, and sharing stories on being a global citizen with thanks to the Erasmus+ co-funded programme Crossroads. The programme offers two fully funded trips to Portugal and Romania.

Your generosity will help charities which provide essential support, healthcare, well-being, play and creativity. All donations help to change children's lives for good. Funds donated through RTÉ Toy Show Appeal will go to support a range of children’s charities around Ireland and will be distributed by Community Foundation Ireland.

Do you think you have some spare time to support these young people and their families, in a kind, compassionate and non-judgemental way? We are currently looking for volunteers.

Candidates are sought with experience in the Deaf and voluntary sector, Deaf Community issues, financial management, governance, safeguarding and compliance matters.

(Dis)Placed is a Theatre of the Oppressed festival that delves into the complex relationships between people and the land they call home. Through workshops, performances, and a trip to the Battle of the Boyne, this festival examines the theme of “displacement” and belonging.

We have a drop in for young people in Liberty View on a Thursday evening. We are looking for a volunteer who will take part and play an active role in our drop-in program.

We have commissioned Ipsos B&A to deliver this survey and it should take around 20 minutes. The survey is anonymous and your responses cannot be linked to you. Any free text response which may identify you or your charity will be treated in confidence and only reviewed in aggregate form.

Fathers who are homeless and do not live with their children: experiences, challenges, and responses. This event marks the launch of research conducted by Quality Matters to better understand the experiences of fathers who have been homeless, and the impact of fatherhood in attaining secure, own-door accommodation.

From January to June, Irish Hospice Foundation will be running 20 online workshops, covering a range of topics on bereavement and loss, such as “Bereavement in the School Community”, “Working with Adults Facing Death”, and “Children and Loss”.