Community Exchange

This is the Activelink Community Exchange noticeboard.

You can advertise here, volunteering positions, news items and many other advert types are carried free of charge. See our advertising information page.

VOICE: Menstruation - Empowerment and sustainability (MENSY)

VOICE invites all Youth and Community Workers and People who work with young people to learn more on supporting menstrual literacy in young people in our one-day Train the Trainer Course. The training is a free training session to be run by VOICE in Dublin on the 4th of June.

Dublin 7

Traveller youth under-represented in funding of youth work

Almost half of the Traveller population live in counties which have no funded Traveller specific youth projects – according to a new mapping survey launched today by the Irish Traveller Movement. Majority of Traveller organisations do not receive any funding for youth work.

Nationwide

Afri Doolough Famine Walk 2025

Join us for the annual Afri Doolough Famine Walk, a poignant journey of remembrance, solidarity, and commitment to action. This year's theme, Sowing Seeds of Change in Remembrance and Solidarity. The event will take place on Saturday, May 17th, 2025, in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo.

Co Mayo

Barnardos: Gardening Volunteer

Barnardos Buckingham Street are seeking a volunteer (June – mid September 2025) with an interest and experience in gardening and caring for an outdoor environment.

Dublin 1

Youth Work Ireland Laois: Board Directors

Make a Difference in Young People’s Lives! We are seeking passionate and committed individuals to join our Board of Directors and help shape the future of youth work in our community.

Co Laois

ACET Ireland: Positive Youth Project Volunteers

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals from all walks of life. While it’s not a requirement, we encourage & support those with lived experience or who have been affected by HIV to apply.

Dublin 1

Jigsaw / Belong To: Supporting the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People

Belong To are launching an updated training programme developed in collaboration with our friends at Jigsaw - The National Centre for Youth Mental Health. This is a free online training delivered in five modules and is designed to upskill anyone working or volunteering with young people.

Online

Friends of Breastfeeding: Support Services

Are you pregnant or a new breastfeeding mum? Our Breastfeeding Buddies provide 1:1 peer support and encouragement through the early days of breastfeeding. Our Mum2Mum Groups are open to mums-to-be, mums, children, and families. Breastfeeding,

Nationwide / Online

Arachas launches new insurance facility for community organisations

Securing cost effective insurance has been challenging for community, voluntary and charitable organisations over the past number of years. In response to this, Arachas, Ireland’s largest, nationwide insurance broker has created a new insurance facility for the sector in partnership with Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Plc.

Nationwide

Development Perspectives: The Boyne Ripple

The Boyne Catchment is a treasure—rich in historical, mythical, and environmental significance. Building on the Boyne Vision, the Development Perspectives team will harness the activism of our SDG Advocate alumni and climate activists within the catchment to advance climate justice.

Louth / Meath / Cavan

Irish Hospice Foundation: Applications Open for MSc Loss & Bereavement Courses

Irish Hospice Foundation, in association with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, delivers two master’s courses: MSc Loss & Bereavement and MSc Loss & Bereavement (Clinical Practice). Learn about loss, death, and bereavement in a supportive environment and equip yourself with the skills to provide appropriate grief supports in your communities, workplaces, and professional practices.

Blended

2into3 Q1 Nonprofit Talent Trends for 2025

2into3’s latest assessment reveals a significant increase in recruitment activity across the nonprofit sector in Q1 2025. The sector’s continued focus on programme implementation and direct service provision remains evident.

Nationwide

Merchants Quay Ireland: MSIF Community Fund

MQI are making you aware of the MSIF Community Fund and to offer the opportunity of applying for a funding grant, if you choose to do so. The types of projects supported in our previous round of applications include projects for young people (sporting activities, youth engagement projects, community support.

Dublin

National Training Fund (NTF) Carmichael Webinar: Excel and AI

As part of the National Training Fund 2025 Programme, Carmichael is hosting a free NTF webinar on “Excel and AI – how can AI help with formulas and more?” with Anne Walsh. This 50 minute webinar will include how to use an AI tool (Co-Pilot/Chat GPT) to summarize the results of a set of questionnaires with actionable points.

Online / Zoom

STAND: Skills for Transformation - An Introduction to Facilitation

This immersive, participatory 2-day training explores today’s complex and interconnected crises through role play, debate, art, movement, and other creative active citizenship methods. Ideal for students or recent graduates (18+), activists, professionals and anyone passionate about social change, community organising, and global citizenship education.

Dublin 2

The Anne Sullivan Centre: Volunteer Drivers

We are recruiting Volunteer Drivers to provide transport for our service users so they can fully participate in community life and activities that are important to them.

Stillorgan, Co Dublin

Rethink Ireland: Hi Digital Fund

Rethink Ireland, in partnership with the Vodafone Foundation, SmartSimple, private donors and the Department of Rural and Community Development, invite applications from projects and organisations that innovatively work to empower Ireland’s older adults to enhance their digital literacy.

Nationwide

The Wheel: May Leadership Academy Breakfast Club

The final Breakfast Club of our third series is here. If you have been promising yourself you’ll get to one, now is the time! On the 22nd May 2025 at 10am we will be in the Claremont Stadium in County Meath, discussing a very pertinent theme of Leadership and Allyship.

Co Meath

HUGG Waterford - Suicide Bereavement Pop-up Café

Whether you’ve lost a friend, family member, neighbour, teammate, or colleague, and if you are over 18, you are welcome to come along. Take some time for yourself, to share memories of your loved one, exchange coping strategies, or simply be in the company of others who truly understand.

Dungarvan, Co Waterford

Cork Life Centre: Volunteer Tutor Needed

Do you have skill, experience or passion for a subject to work one to one in? We are currently looking for volunteers to work with our young people across all subjects.

Cork

Mentoring with Confidence Course

This 1-day certified course will introduce participants to the key principles of mentoring, equip them with the necessary skills to effectively support mentees, and provide practical tools / techniques that will enable employees to make a positive impact as mentors.

Online / Zoom

HUGG Waterford - Suicide Bereavement Pop-up Café

If you have lost a loved one to suicide, recently or many years ago, you are warmly invited to join us for a complimentary cuppa and chat with others who understand your grief. Led by trained volunteers with a lived experience of suicide loss, our pop-up café offers a safe, non-judgmental space for social connection, mutual support and shared understanding.

Dungarvan, Co Waterford