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.

ARC's Dip in the Nip

Dare to go bare for ARC Cancer Support Centres! Get your kit off for ARC Cancer Support Centres! Come and join us for a Dip in the Nip at a secret location in Dublin on Sunday 20th July. This is the perfect way to shed your inhibitions – as well as your clothing, and raise much needed funds for ARC!

Dublin

Support SVP’s Education and Training Bursary Fund

Every year, bright and determined young people across Ireland face a future limited not by their potential – but by poverty. In 2024 alone, more than 190,000 children were living in poverty (CSO Survey of Income and Living Conditions 2024). That same year, SVP received over 4,000 requests for help with university and college course support.

Nationwide

Irish Cancer Society: Make A Splash A Day

Commit to a swim a day for August to raise funds for cancer patients and their families. This August take on a swim challenge with a difference! Commit to dipping, swimming or splashing each day for a month and raise funds to support cancer services and research.

Nationwide

2025 LGBTIQ+ Community Services Fund

€1.400,000 is being made available to applicant groups, operating at national, regional and local level, to support community services and promote visibility and inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people. Funding aims to promote inclusion, protect rights and to improve quality of life and wellbeing for LGBTIQ+ people in Ireland.

Nationwide

COVID-19 Evaluation Survey

Everyone in Ireland felt the impact of the pandemic response – but each experience is different. The independent COVID-19 Evaluation wants to understand the wide-ranging impacts. This Consultation gives you an opportunity to share your personal experience. Your input will help the Evaluation learn lessons to guide decision making for future events.

Nationwide

Legal NGO FLAC launches Annual Report

Calls for Urgent Action in response to Ireland’s “Legal Aid Crisis”. FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) promotes access to justice through its Telephone Information and Referral Line, Free Legal Advice Clinics, casework, targeted legal services (for the Roma, Traveller and LGBTQI+ communities), and policy and law reform work.

Nationwide

Balla Community Centre: Volunteers for Bingo

This is a great opportunity to become involved in the local community and enjoy a fun social evening. Excellent English required. Training will be provided.

Balla, Co Mayo

SHEP: Reflective Practice for Practitioners Courses (In-person & Online)

These courses will be of interest to a wide range of practitioners, paid or voluntary, involved in various roles in Community and Voluntary groups, social service agencies, public or local authority (e.g. education, youth and community work, social work, childcare, healthcare, housing, inter-agency work etc.).

Cork City & Online

Gestalt Institute of Ireland: Personal Development Programme

This programme is for anyone curious about how Gestalt principles can support meaningful change in both personal and professional life. Whether you're seeking deeper self-understanding, more fulfilling relationships, or exploring the potential for future psychotherapy training, this is a powerful place to begin.

Dublin 2

The Substance Use Issues in Youth & Community Work Course 2025/ 26

The Substance Use Issues & Community Work Course 2025 / 26 is designed to promote good practice among those who work in a paid or voluntary capacity with young people and communities who are affected by various issues. The course will be run over a one year academic period on a Tuesday evening from September to March (20 weeks).

Cork City / Online

HUGG Kerry: Suicide Bereavement Pop-up Café

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. You are warmly invited to join us for a complimentary cuppa and chat with others who understand your grief.

Killarney, Co Kerry

Tusla Children’s Residential Care Open Days, Westmeath & Limerick

Tusla is excited to announce the opening of multiple Children's Residential Care Homes across the country in the coming months. In partnership with Tusla, Cpl Healthcare is hosting Social Care Career Open Days to recruit passionate Social Care Professionals in the West North West and Mid-West regions.

Co Westmeath & Co Limerick

Dublin Outreach

Dublin Outreach is an assertive street outreach service provided by Dublin Simon Community in partnership with the Dublin Region Homeless Executive. This service engages with adults who are rough sleeping, supports them into short term homeless accommodation, and makes appropriate referrals to permanent housing options especially Housing First.

Dublin & Surrounds

Age Action's Care and Repair Programme

Age Action’s Care and Repair does small DIY jobs, free of charge, for older people to help them maintain their homes and their independence. Operating in Cork, Dublin and Galway, Care and Repair does jobs that might be more difficult to complete as we get older but not big enough to call in a tradesperson.

Cork, Dublin & Galway

Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline - 1800 341 900

It can be hard to talk about what is happening to you if you are being abused, but the Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline is here to help, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. National Freephone Helpline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Nationwide

Women’s Aid: Annual Impact Report 2024

Record number of contacts with and disclosures of domestic abuse to Women’s Aid in 2024. Women’s Aid, a leading national organisation supporting victims-survivors of domestic abuse, reveals that it has recorded the highest level of both contacts by victim-survivors and disclosures of domestic abuse in its 50-years history.

Nationwide

2into3 expands team and services with Ivan Cooper appointment

The leading consultancy dedicated to supporting and transforming social impact organisations, 2into3, announced the appointment of Ivan Cooper as a Senior Associate Consultant. Cooper joins the Advisory Services team of the all-island consultancy, adding policy and advocacy to its well-established governance, strategy, organisation management, and crisis offering.

Nationwide