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Social Support Groups operate as a core member service, with a focus on enhancing well-being, fostering community, and promoting shared knowledge among polio survivors.
Are you passionate about helping children? Do you have 4 hours a week to spare? Join our team as a volunteer and provide essential support to children in need of a compassionate ear.
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!
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.
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.
Become a CBC-Informed Educator, FREE Pilot Training Opportunity - through evidence-based, trauma-informed training, we equip educators with the tools to better support students facing stress, emotional dysregulation, and behavioural challenges.
€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.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
We are currently seeking volunteers to join our dedicated AgeWell Companion team. AgeWell is a peer-to-peer care model which includes a befriending service.
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.
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).
We are seeking suitably qualified candidates preferably located in the West of Ireland to facilitate engagement with management and periodic in-person Board meetings.
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.
Cairde is proud to be part of the Erasmus+ project Roma Influencers Breaking the Circle of Early Marriages and Early Motherhood in Roma Communities (Roma Influencers Network), which addresses the serious impact of early marriage and motherhood in Roma communities.
The Alzheimer Society of Ireland is calling on Government to improve equity of access for people living with dementia and family carers through investment in community day care services, dementia-specific home care, counselling for people with dementia and family carers and dementia research.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Recruiting for Support Line and Support and Self Care Group Volunteers. No prior qualifications or experience is required, as we provide 20+ hours of comprehensive training, as well as ongoing support and education.
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