Community Exchange

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First Fortnight Festival 2025

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.

Various Locations

Barnardos: ERK and HRIS Systems Admin Support Person

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.

Dublin

Music Network: Music Capital Scheme 2024 Piano Award

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.

Nationwide

Sonas Domestic Abuse: Voluntary Board Member

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

Dublin / Online

Regulator of the National Lottery: Underage Mystery Shopping 2024

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.

Nationwide

ISPCC: Our Services

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.

Nationwide

National Women's Council: Still stuck in the Gap - Report

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.

Nationwide

FASD Ireland: Avoid the risk of FASD to your baby over the holiday season

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.

Nationwide

Grants Available for Training Networks

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.

Nationwide

2024 Healthy Ireland Survey Results

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.

Nationwide

Blackwater Training: International Travel Opportunity

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.

Nationwide / Portugal & Romania

Donations now Open for the RTÉ Toy Show Appeal

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.

Nationwide

Reach Deaf Services: Board Vacancies

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

Dublin / Nationwide

(Dis)Placed: A Theatre of the Oppressed Festival

(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.

Drogheda, Co Louth

Rua: Volunteer Call Out

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.

Dublin 8

Focus Ireland: Research Report Launch (Online)

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.

Online / Zoom

Irish Hospice Foundation: Online Bereavement & Loss Workshops

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”.

Online