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.

Foróige Youth Mentoring Programme: Volunteers

We are looking for volunteers - Supportive mentoring friendships for young people - inspiring them to brighter futures - and it only takes an hour a week

Louth, North Co Dublin & Meath
  • Volunteering

Acquired Brain Injury Ireland: New Training and Employment Programme for Carers

Acquired Brain Injury Ireland’s On With Life Programme has launched a new programme for anyone caring for a loved one with brain injury to help with their transition to employment, training or education. The On With Training and Employment programme aims to support carers and family carers who wish to begin or return to employment, training and education

Nationwide
  • Training

Narrative 4 & Consilient Health: Facilitator Training Programme - Free Spaces

Narrative 4 in partnership with Consilient Health are currently offering free spaces on their certified Facilitator Training programme to teachers in DEIS schools in Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow. This is an evidence-based SEL tool that teaches empathy, listening and communication skills to youth.

Dublin, Kildare & Wicklow
  • Training

Brahma Kumaris Ireland: What's on in June 2023

Brahma Kumaris Ireland offers an education in human, moral and spiritual values. To meet the challenge of change, it initiates dialogue and presents a fresh vision of the future. It recognises the intrinsic goodness of all human beings and teaches meditation to help each one rediscover their inner resources and strengths. All our events / courses are free of charge as a community service.

Dublin & Online
  • Training

Carmichael opens applications for the Good Governance Awards 2023

Any nonprofit organisation in Ireland, whether a charity, Company Limited by Guarantee, sports club or social enterprise, can enter its annual report and financial statements into the Awards for free and it will receive individual feedback to help improve future annual reports.

Nationwide
  • News

safeTALK Training - Dublin 2

safeTALK Training (Suicide Alertness for Everyone) is for persons over 18 and free of charge. Training is for those living or working in Community Healthcare Dublin South, Kildare and West Wicklow. Booking is essential.

Dublin 2
  • Training

Age & Opportunity: Volunteer Mentors for FitLine service

We are recruiting volunteer mentors from all over the country for our FitLine service. It offers telephone-based support to our participants who are over 50.

Nationwide
  • Volunteering

Creating Opportunities to Learn

Have employees and volunteers in your organisation attended the training courses they require? Ireland has over 500,000 nonprofit workers, paid and unpaid, who need relevant skills to excel in their roles. It is vital that conditions are created to enable these workers to attend training courses to update their current skills and learn new ones.

Nationwide
  • News

The Sanctuary: Befriending Volunteers

We are looking for volunteers who wish to extend the hand of friendship to others by carrying out regular visits to older adults living in mental health community residences.

Dublin 7
  • Volunteering

Claremorris Community Radio: Volunteer Newsreaders

As a Newsreader for our small community radio station, you will have the opportunity to deliver news content during a live show once a week. Free training will be provided.

Co Mayo
  • Volunteering

Transplant Surgeons Celebrated on Global Surgery Day

The event was organised by the Irish Kidney Association, supported by Organ Donation Transplant Ireland & location host St. Vincent’s University Hospital, to mark Global Surgery Day on Thursday, 25th May, which coincides with Organ Donor Awareness Week, to celebrate the contribution of transplant surgeons & their valued lifesaving role.

Nationwide
  • News

Transplant Team Ireland enjoys hospitality of Australian Ambassador

After their successful exploits at the World Transplant Games last month in Perth, the Australian Ambassador held a special reception to honour Transplant Team Ireland at the Australian Embassy & mark the end of Organ Donor Awareness Week.

Nationwide
  • News

UCD: Think Again Programme

UCD wants you - time to "Think Again" for women on low income, aged 23 or over, and who want to go to university. UCD is proud to be the first university to launch the Think Again programme. The programme is for women on low income, aged 23 or over, who want to study part-time or full-time for a degree.

Dublin
  • Training

SHEP Social Awareness and Community Empowerment Course: Apprentice Trainers

Call for Applications 2023 - Apprentice Trainers on the SHEP Social Awareness and Community Empowerment Course. We are currently organising a selection process to identify a small number of suitably qualified people to join the SHEP Facilitator Panel for the Social Awareness and Community Empowerment training course.

Cork
  • Training

Urgent Appeal for blood donations

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) are seeking the public’s support to help the national blood supply as most blood groups have fallen to just 3 days in recent weeks. The IBTS aims to have 7 days stock at all times.

Nationwide
  • News

Third Age: AgeWell Companions Needed in Meath

As an AgeWell Companion you will visit older people at home, providing contact, company and acting as a link to the local health care system and local community services.

Co Meath
  • Volunteering

LGBT Ireland: Board Members

We actively seek a diverse applicant pool for these positions and encourage candidates of all backgrounds and from all over Ireland to apply.

Nationwide
  • Volunteering

67% of adults have not heard of new Assisted-decision Making legislation

Two-thirds of all adults have had never heard of Ireland’s new Assisted Decision-making law, or have any knowledge of what it is about. The finding has prompted Safeguarding Ireland to call for a major public drive on understanding and applying the law, which came into effect in April.

Nationwide
  • News

Diabetes Ireland: Free Code Type 2 Group Education Meetings

The groups are facilitated by Diabetes Ireland Health Professionals, a Nurse or Dietitian, and kept to a maximum of 12 participants in a relaxed environment sharing and hearing people’s own experiences.

Online
  • Events

100k in 30 Days for Breast Cancer

We are thrilled to announce that the 100k in 30 Days for Breast Cancer is back for June 2023 and we are delighted to be teaming up with the Marie Keating Foundation with funds raised going towards the vital Breast Cancer Services they provide.

Nationwide
  • Fundraisers

TRI2023: Finding your tinnitus community

Tinnitus affects about 10-15% of the people and 2-3% of these people are severely distressed by their ear sounds. Although there is no cure for tinnitus at this point, there are ways to manage your tinnitus. One of the most powerful ways is by finding your tinnitus community.

Dublin 2
  • Events

Ocean to City / Cork Harbour Festival: Volunteers

Join the Ocean to City team as a volunteer and get a look at what happens behind the scenes of Cork’s big day out on the water. Whether you’d like to help on shore, on the water, in the city or in the harbour – we would love to hear from you!

Cork
  • Volunteering

Winners at Young Environmentalist Awards 2023

A spray that can be used to make bioplastics compostable at home; an app that resulted in 3,500 trees being planted by young people; and an outdoor edible classroom to give students a place to ‘learn and grow’ were among the 24 eco-projects recognised at this year’s annual ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards (YEA).

Nationwide
  • News