Women’s Aid is a national, feminist organisation working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse. We do this by advocating, influencing, training, and campaigning for effective responses to reduce the scale and impacts of domestic abuse on women and children in Ireland and by providing high quality, specialised, integrated, support services.

Women’s Aid vision is an equal Ireland, with zero tolerance of domestic abuse and all other forms of violence against women. Our values are courage, cooperation, inclusivity, empowerment, equality and change.

Mission Statement:

“To facilitate the empowerment of women through education training and community enterprise development”

Aims & Objectives:

World Vision Ireland is a registered Irish charity governed by a board of Irish Directors. Our goal is to promote justice through long term commitment to community based holistic development and delivery of emergency relief to assist people affected by conflict or disaster.

We are a humanitarian relief and development agency dedicated to sharing resources and developing partnerships with the absolute poor - irrespective of creed, colour, gender or race by:

The main focus of YMCA work in Ireland is supporting young people to grow physically, mentally and spiritually. YMCA Ireland works with 26,000 young people and families.  Over it’s long history it has been involved in working with young people on signature programmes in vocational training, family youth-work, leadership development and international engagement.

Young Social Innovators (YSI) is a non-profit organisation that empowers young people to use their talents, insights, passion and creativity to come up with innovative solutions to social challenges. For the past 21 years, our fun and engaging programmes have supported students to create team-based action-projects on issues they care about, putting their innovative ideas into action to bring about positive social change for the benefit of people, communities and the environment.

Young Irish Film Makers is a youth media education service dedicated to the personal, social, cultural, critical and intellectual development of young people from all social backgrounds.

We deliver a wide range of developmental and educational media training programmes that nurtures the abilities of young people to become skilled social users and critical creators rather than passive consumers of the media.

YIFM is a not for profit, registered charity. All income is reinvested in our youth education and training services.

The YCW is an international youth movement, which values the dignity and worth of each young person. It enables its members to challenge social exclusion and take action to bring about change in their home, their workplace and their social life.

Founded in Belgium in 1925 by Fr. Joseph Cardijn, the YCW believes that each young worker has a vital role to play in the solving of his or her own needs and problems. Starting with their own lives members are encouraged to Review their Life and look at possible solutions to bring about change.

Youth Work Ireland Tipperary delivers an integrated youth service across Tipperary and East Limerick, working with young people aged between 8 and 25 years, their families and communities.

The Youth Work Ireland (formerly National Youth Federation) is the largest youth work organisation in Ireland. As the coordinating and development agency for Local Youth Services in Ireland, Youth Work Ireland is committed to promoting community based youth services which are relevant accessible and attractive to young people.

Through our nationwide network of young people committed volunteer leaders and staff, the organisation seeks to improve the situation of young people by delivering high quality youth work services.

Youth Advocate Programmes Ireland (YAP Ireland) provides unique services using a strengths-based, needs led, family support, wraparound approach. YAP Ireland matches community-based advocates with those referred leading to more positive engagement and outcomes for young people, families and referrers.

Louth Work Ireland (Louth) offers opportunities to young people to advance and encourage the personal, social, emotional, spiritual, physical, cultural and political development of young people through engagement in a range of activities, events, programmes and projects which endeavour to be both stimulating and challenging. Youth Work Ireland (Louth) aims to broaden the horizons and life expectations of young people and assist them in reaching their full potential as active and positive citizens in their community.

Youth Theatre Ireland is the national development organisation for youth theatre. We support a network of youth theatres who deliver year-round programmes of drama workshops and performance opportunities to young people aged 12 - 21 from cities, towns and villages across Ireland.

Youth Train Wexford Ltd will provide innovative Training and Education Programmes in a student – centred environment. We use a holistic development process to support participants to achieve their full potential.

Young People at Risk (YPAR) initiative is located in the North East Inner City (NEIC) of Dublin, which experiences some of the highest levels of deprivation and marginalisation in the city

Vision

To live in a place of hope, equality and opportunity where young people and their family’s dreams are realised