Last Week (25 April 2024), The Wheel, Ireland’s national association of charities, has called for local election candidates to sign a pledge to champion the work of the community, voluntary, charity and social enterprise sector at local government level.

The event will feature speakers from the Department of Education, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Aontas and Education For Sustainability.

Join our volunteer group! We are offering this unique opportunity for members of the public to help to shape the future of palliative care services across the island of Ireland.

The Mental Health Engagement Framework: 2024 – 2028 aims to promote the involvement of staff, people with lived experience, their families, carers and supporters in the continuous improvement of mental health services.

Managing change effectively will allow us to harness the benefits of transition to transform our society and our economy. While much is changing, many of the problems facing our society are longstanding: inequality, poverty, and under-investment in our social infrastructure remain major challenges.

This workshop will offer practical insight on why it’s important to become aware of the digital backdrop of grieving today. With everyday examples and exercises, we will explore how these new contexts touch us all and influence how we understand and experience digital-age grief, and support others within it.

Often Pet Bereavement falls into the category of disenfranchised grief. Pet bereavement is felt differently by everybody, even those within the same household as our pets mean different things to each of us. However, grief, in all its forms, deserves compassion, consideration, and respect.

Attendees will learn practical ways they can support the person during this process, as well as signs that the individual is struggling to cope. Attendees will also be invited to reflect on their own experiences of loss and how these may interact or colour the ways in which they support others.

This Irish Hospice Foundation Bereavement Workshop will explore the nature of some of the losses experienced by Family Carers, provide insight into elements that impact on how these losses are experienced and provide guidance on supporting a Family Carer who is grieving.

This is a free event for anyone who is bereaved, supporting someone who is bereaved, or works in the community supporting those who are bereaved. Speaker Bryan Nolan will give a talk on bereavement, and there will be a Q&A session with a panel of people with lived experience of bereavement.

This fund will be available to support community-based projects and programmes across Ireland & Northern Ireland that are focused on cultivating inclusive communities by empowering young people aged 16-25 to become skilled and engaged citizens under the pillars of learning and sustainable development.

Trinity College Dublin and Belong To published a new report on the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQI+ people. The report, Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland, is the second iteration of the 2016 LGBTIreland Report. It is the largest sample of Ireland's LGBTQI+ population, with over 2,800 participants.

Must be able to provide a non-judgemental listening ear for the victim. Empathy & confidentiality are most important & awareness of and adherence to the boundaries of the role.

We are particularly interested in finding a person with a book-keeping, accounting or similar financial background to take on the role of Treasurer.

Are you a parent / guardian, teacher or club / camp leader (sports, scouts, girl guides etc) living in Ireland? We'd like views on food messaging for children and adolescents.

Following on from the success of last year bursary the college is offering a bursary again this year reducing the cost of our MA programmes in Childhood and Adolescent studies by €3000 as part of the college’s commitment to affordable access to education.

The Managing a Team & Group Dynamics short course is designed to give students an introduction to group dynamics, teams and teamwork, an overview of key leadership skills, and an understanding of how to manage and motivate teams.

This course is designed to give students an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of grant making trusts and foundations as a source of fundraising, an overview of best practice in researching and building relationships with trusts and foundations, an understanding of the grant cycle and an understanding of the reasons why grant applications fail.

The Digital Fundraising short course is designed to give students an understanding of how to build a digital fundraising strategy and integrated digital campaigns. In this context and a backdrop of accelerated fundraising digitisation, it includes a deep dive into peer to peer fundraising and advertising campaigns.

You will hear of the latest academic research and the very best of professional experience and practice. Critically, this course will also showcase new learning for legacy fundraising from the science of philanthropic psychology.

Join us for an in-depth training course specially developed for the Irish charity sector, on Charity SORP. This 10-week online training course will be delivered by Caron Bradshaw, CEO of Charity Finance Group alongside CFG’s special advisor and technical partner for the course Pesh Framjee, Partner at Social Purpose and Non-Profit Consulting.

The Direct Marketing module is designed to give students an understanding of why people donate and why they stop, an understanding of the key stages in the donor recruitment process and an overview of the essentials of creative briefing.

This short course is designed to give participants an introduction to the nature of corporate support (how and why corporates support charities), an overview of the essentials of an effective Corporate Fundraising Strategy and key techniques that can be used to increase success in securing corporate support.

Join Charities Institute Ireland for The Legacy & In Memory Giving short course. Designed to give students an understanding of trends in legacy giving in Ireland, an overview of the reasons why donors leave bequests, the barriers to legacy giving and a framework for developing a legacy fundraising strategy.

As the representative body for Ireland’s leading and professional charities, Cii will host a screening of a new film ‘Uncharitable’. The film challenges some long-standing preconceptions about how the sector should be resourced.