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EXPERIENCE – Community worker never felt so empowered
Sheila is a community worker and also the parent of an adult child with an intellectual disability and recently joined 'Before We Die'. Her experience with the group has been most empowering. However, she does not wish to be named and she explains why here.
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€4m investment in rural social enterprise through new PEACEPLUS project
An investment of €3,971,440 in rural renewal was announced in February at the launch of the Rural Innovation and Social Enterprise (RiSE) Project, an initiative designed to put social enterprise at the centre of sustainable rural development.
Planning & Governance
Surprising benefits “if you present yourself as the CEO”
What’s in a name? Or more to the point, what's in a title?
Well, when the title is CEO it can be quite a lot, or that is the view of some in a sector that has increasingly borrowed from the language of the corporate world.
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Máirin is new CEO of the Local Development Companies Network
Máirin Ó Cuireáin formally commenced work this week as the new CEO of the Local Development Companies Network (LDCN). The umbrella body represents not-for-profit local development companies across the state.
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Service providers need to connect with groups protesting on the streets
"The most important thing is to keep our ability to bring change, not to constantly be running to cope with the changes happening around us."
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Kerry Gaeltacht faces same youth retention challenges facing Wales and Scotland
Breandán Ó Caoimh is a geographer and social researcher who has written at length about activism, housing and community development in the South Kerry Gaeltacht. In a recent paper, he points out that the challenges in Kerry are common in communities not just along Ireland’s western seaboard, but also in rural Wales and Scotland.
Community
Dorset Street community unites to build a better place to live and work
In January of this year, an umbrella group comprised of residents and businesspeople in Dublin's north inner city took home an IPB Pride of Place award for their efforts to make their area a better place to live and work.
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Rachel Doyle: We are heartened, but not naive
The values and principles document was co-developed by the State and the community and voluntary sector. Speaking at the launch Rachel Doyle of Community Work Ireland warned that without commitment the document “will remain simply words on a page”.
She is optimistic, yet nevertheless said, “I don’t think any of us want to see tokenism or a tick box exercise happening.”
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Values & principles – “This is just the start,” says Ivan Cooper
Ivan Cooper, director of public policy at The Wheel, spoke at the launch to argue for why he felt the values and principles document was "very important". He said he could not "emphasise enough the entwined nature in the way the sector and the State collaborate in supporting people in communities and people in Ireland".
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3% pay rise sought by unions for community / care workers
SIPTU, the INMO, Fórsa and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions are seeking a pay rise for thousands of workers employed in the voluntary and community sector. "We’re putting in a pay claim of 3%," said a SIPTU official.
