Alix Gardner Cooking Demonstrations at SeniorTimes LIVE!

 

We are delighted to announce that Alix Gardner of Alix Gardner’s Cooking School will be hosting a cooking demonstration at 1.30pm on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th April at SeniorTimes LIVE! in the RDS Industries Hall

DUBLINS PREMIER COOKERY SCHOOL

Alix Gardner set up the first practical cookery school in Ireland over 30 years ago and has taught more than 5,000 students how to cook.

She herself trained at the famous Cordon Bleu Cookery School and Leith’s School of Food and Wine in London but has since then cooked and studied food from Canton to California and has run Irish food festivals in restaurants such as The Mandarin in Hong Kong.

Many famous chefs have demonstrated in her school including Paul Rankin, Lloyd Grossman & Guillaume Lebrun of Patrick Guilbauds. She has been a member of Eurotoque, the European association of chefs committed to quality and natural ingredients since its foundation in Ireland in 1989.

She recently taught Leinster Rugby and the Irish Ladies Rugby Team healthy eating recipes.  She regularly demonstrates the latest food trends at the RDS and Croke Park.

She has written on food extensively for Irish and International magazines and has had regular columns in Social & Personal, Irish Tatler, and Image Magazines. Television work includes The Country Houses of Ireland and Super Cook.

dublincookery@yahoo.com
(01) 668 1553

ADMISSION TO SENIOR TIMES LIVE! IS FREE BY REGISTERING HERE

 

ALONE: Digital Champion Workshop

ALONE’S DIGITAL CHAMPION WORKSHOP

ALONE and Active Retirement Ireland have partnered with Vodafone Ireland Foundation to deliver a new nationwide 5-year digital skills training programme for older people called Hi Digital.

The programme has been developed to help bridge the digital divide by offering free digital skills training to older people and upskilling the organisations that support them.

ALONE are running online Digital Champion workshops nationwide for organisations that support older people.

The workshops will focus on giving an older person the basic skills to get online.

ALONE has been providing technology to older people for years, we know there can be challenges in accessing and using it. This course will allow you to understand how best we can support each individual to get online and stay online.

Learning Objectives

1. Understanding the Digital Champions’ role in supporting older people with their digital skills
2. Understanding the older person’s circumstances and building trust
3. Understanding the impact technology can have on an older person’s life
4. Planning and supporting the learning process for the individual
5. How to facilitate one to one sessions and small groups
6. Overview of the Hi Digital Learning Platform

Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Free
IT/Digital Skills required: Basic
Who can attend: Any individual who works in organisation that supports older people and will be able to support older people with their digital skills.
How to Register: You can register your interest in attending a workshop with ALONE by completing this quick form here or by emailing digitalskills@alone.ie for more information.

If you want a quick chat about the workshops, you can also contact our Training Coordinator Liam Mulcahy on 086 035 3901.

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General Info

Date Entered/Updated

7th Mar, 2022

Region

Nationwide

Expiry Date

7th May, 2022

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Free biodiversity training this summer in 10 locations around Cork

 ILD WORK Biodiversity Training in South & West Cork 

    

  

 

NEW PHASE OF WILD WORK FOR SOUTH AND WEST CORK 

Innovative training programme to combine outdoor classrooms, online learning and virtual reality experiences to help people, help nature, help people. 

 

People living in South and West Cork are being encouraged to sign up to take part in a new free 12-week biodiversity Wild Work training programme that will be rolled out across 10 locations in the region as part of a pilot project which also includes 10 other locations in West Limerick and Cavan.   The training will target community and voluntary organisations, individuals, farmers, teachers, the business community and others with an interest in the environment, as well as managers of public amenities / owners of public land. 

 

The aim of the Wild Work project is to help people, help nature, help people.  Designed by expert ecologists, the training programme integrates the use of innovative virtual and augmented technologies with practical outdoor classroom and on-line learning modules to help trainees to focus on how best to support local biodiversity and experience mental and physical health benefits as a result of taking part in positive environmental actions.  

 

The Wild Work training programme will begin in May 2022 and will be delivered in; 

Killeagh, Douglas, Midleton, Fota and Ballincollig in South Cork AND 

Tracton, Castlefreke, Leap, Baltimore and Kilbrittan in West Cork

*Please note the Douglas and Fota dates are now FULL

 

Training will comprise of six core biodiversity training modules that will explore the Irish landscape and its natural networks, along with Wild Work in Action training focusing on wellness and biodiversity management of public lands, all of which will be delivered by biodiversity experts.  The training will be enhanced by the development of an online Wild Work Toolkit containing an exciting range of e-learning activities to support the learning, added to by the participants themselves as they experience the training in their own place. 

The Wild Work programme is being coordinated by three Local Development Companies - SECAD Partnership in Cork who first designed and piloted Wild Work in 2017, West Limerick Resources and Cavan County Local Development as part of a LEADER funded Inter-territorial Co-operation project. 

It is hoped that, over time, the training programme will be rolled out nationwide and will inspire other countries to create similar programmes for the benefit of both people and place.   

 

 

To sign up for Killeagh, Douglas, Midleton, Fota or Ballincollig, please do so through the following link: https://wildwork.ie/south-cork-introduction-course/  

 

To sign up for Tracton, Castlefreke, Leap, Baltimore or Kilbrittan  please do so through the following link: https://wildwork.ie/west-cork-introduction-course/ 

 

No previous experience or qualifications are required to take part. Basic IT skills are required.

 

 

Further Information 

Wild Work Biodiversity training will include six really interesting and interactive modules, linked to the landscape and biodiversity features. These include:  

• The history of biodiversity in the Irish landscape 
• The Wild Work philosophy and ethos.  
• The importance of biodiversity for well-being.  
• Biodiversity-friendly habitat management practices for meadows, woodlands and streams.  
• The role of citizen science monitoring.  
• How the Wild Work Framework will function to support biodiversity action into the future.  

 

• The Wild Work in Action training in South and West Cork will comprise training in 
  Wellbeing in the workplace, Citizen Science and Biodiversity Management of Public Lands.  
• A Junior Wild Workers online training programme for schools and youth groups will also be developed. 
• A Wild Work Toolkit will be developed containing an exciting range of e-learning activities to support the learning, added to by the participants themselves as they experience the training in their own place. 
• The Wild Work Training Programme will be delivered in outdoor classrooms, online and using specially created virtual reality experiences.   
• Training will begin in May 2022 in South and West Cork as well as in 10 other locations in West Limerick and Cavan. 
• The team commissioned by Wild Work to deliver the training is an innovative Irish female led high potential start up www.veri.ie   
• Emagine have been commissioned to produce two spectacular meadow and woodland virtual reality experiences each containing a number of different locations depicted in a 360-degree fully 3D view.  The viewer will be able to access a series of hotspots containing information relating to the Wild Work training programme in the form of images, video and audio content, delivering an innovative and immersive experience. 
• The Wild Work Co-operation Project is supported through the LEADER Co-operation budget as a LEADER Inter-territorial project.   
• The three Local Development Companies deliver LEADER as Implementing Partners for the Local Action Groups in South and West Cork, Limerick and Cavan in conjunction with the Local Community Development Committees and Cork County Council, Limerick City and County Council and Cavan County Council. 
• LEADER 2014-2020 is funded through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development-Europe Investing in Rural Area. 

 

 

 

More information on the work we do can be found on our website  https://wildwork.ie 

FREE A.S.I.S.T. Workshop (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) - Mallow Co. Cork

 ASIST Workshop

FREE A.S.I.S.T. Workshop (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) - Mallow Co. Cork

Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd June

 

The A.S.I.S.T. programme is a 2-day intensive, interactive, and practice-dominated workshop designed to help Participants/Caregivers recognise the immediate risk of suicide and learn how to intervene to prevent the tragic consequences of suicide.

 

It is mandatory that those intending ASIST undertake the LivingWorks Start online programme or the safeTALK (suicide alertness) programme initially.

 

Booking via this link:

https://bookwhen.com/suicidepreventiontrainingcork#focus=ev-s2ts-20220601000000

 

Safetalk Mallow

 SAFETALK

FREE safeTALK (suicide alertness skills programme) Mallow, Co Cork

Wednesday 11th May from 10am – 1:30pm.

 

SafeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares attendees, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives.

 

Booking via this link: https://bookwhen.com/suicidepreventiontrainingcork?fbclid=IwAR2PU9Xs4jf9vbgt6t69qgeGMV7VtHyZw181SS9joA-fvnD2tFxXoPcAtbM#focus=ev-sdsj-20220511100000

 

Benefit Concert for Ukraine

 

RISE Community Fund Opens Grant Applications in Carrigaline and surrounding townlands

 RISE Community Fund Opens Grant Applications in Carrigaline and surrounding townlands

 

Grants supported by National Broadband Ireland will empower the digital strategies of businesses, community groups and social enterprises

 

 

24th March 2022: The RISE Community Fund supported by National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the National Broadband Plan (NBP), has today announced that applications for its grants to small businesses, community groups and social enterprises are now open in Carrigaline and surrounding townlands including Ballinvarrig, Coolmore, Knocknamanagh, Raheens and Ringaskiddy to name a few.

 

Established by NBI Chairman and technology entrepreneur, David McCourt, RISE is providing monthly grants across the country to give an immediate cash injection into local communities seeking to boost their digital ecosystems.

 

Following the route of NBI’s deployment of its new high-speed fibre broadband network, Carrigaline is the first location to benefit from the RISE Community Fund. Five grants of €1000 will be available to successful applicants.

 

David McCourt, founder of RISE and Chairman of NBI, commented: “The RISE Community Fund supported by NBI is calling on small businesses, community groups and social enterprises in Carrigaline and the surrounding areas to submit their plans to use technology in creative and entrepreneurial ways to deliver maximum impact. We know there are some amazing people doing extraordinary things to bring value to their local community in Carrigaline, and we’re hoping to accelerate and scale their ambitions with the support of these grants.”

 

Small businesses, community groups and social enterprises with plans to use technology to scale their operations and bring tangible benefits to their local communities are encouraged to visit www.riseglobalfoundation.com for entry forms and guidelines. A full list of the townlands surrounding Carrigaline that are eligible to apply for grants are available at the RISE website.

 

Peter Hendrick, CEO of NBI, added: “At NBI, we’re on a mission to connect over 1.1 million people in rural Ireland who don’t have access to high-speed broadband to a world-class, superfast network. Whilst connectivity is a vital utility and a critical first step, it alone can’t solve all of the challenges for businesses, community groups and social enterprises trying to expand the positive impact they’re able to have - both to the local community, and to the wider economy. That’s why we’re incredibly excited to engage local communities with the RISE Community Fund and celebrate innovative uses of technology here in Carrigaline.”

 

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Image Caption - (Left to Right) David McCourt, Founder of RISE and Chairman of National Broadband Ireland; Orla O'Malley, Programme Director of the RISE Global Foundation; and Peter Hendrick, CEO of National Broadband Ireland.

 

About the RISE Community Fund

The RISE Community Fund is a partnership between National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering Ireland’s National Broadband Plan, and RISE Global Foundation, a privately funded charity. With a shared vision, NBI and RISE are collaborating to tackle the rural/urban digital divide and use technology and entrepreneurship to create opportunities and jobs in rural Ireland.

 

All grants provided by the RISE Community Fund are privately funded by NBI shareholders and private donations. No State funding is used in the provision of grant funding used by RISE Global Foundation.

 

www.riseglobalfoundation.com

 

About NBI
National Broadband Ireland (NBI) is designing, building and operating the new high-speed fibre broadband network for rural Ireland on behalf of the Irish Government. 

NBI’s team brings together some of the most talented individuals in Ireland and across the world, with deep knowledge and experience in delivering projects to the scale of the National Broadband Plan (NBP). This includes developing, building and operating networks and coordinating all the elements required to finance and deliver a project of the size and complexity of Ireland’s NBP.

NBI was established by Granahan McCourt, an international investor in technology, media and telecommunications. For over 30 years, Granahan McCourt has partnered with governments, corporations and communities to connect people through innovation in technologically underserved areas of the world.

www.nbi.ie

 

For more information

Orla O'Malley, Programme Director

RISE Global Foundation

orla@riseglobalfoundation.com

Cork Schools Garden Competition

 Many Primary schools have witnessed first hand the benefits of having a School Garden. 

It has been shown that school gardens provide an excellent opportunity to develop more positive

attitudes towards the environment, biodiversity and science at an early age.

 The Cork Schools Garden Competition  aims to support pupils, teachers in Cork City and County to bring nature, wildlife, plants and colour into their school garden/grounds, to promote horticulture and biodiversity and to give students a chance to interact with the environment and nature in a positive way.

Does your School have a School Garden or are you thinking about developing one?  If so the Cork Schools Garden Competition may be the competition for your school.

log on to www.muintircork.com  to enter

 

Paint Scheme 2022 for the Kanturk/Mallow Municipal District

 Kanturk/Mallow Municipal District Streetscape, Painting, Signage and Improvement Scheme

Please note that the Contract is between the applicant and the painting

contractor/sign manufacturer.

Applications should be submitted to: Kanturk Mallow Municipal District, Council

Offices, Annabella, Mallow, Co. Cork – Phone 022 21123 for all enquiries

The Council’s adjudication on the validity of any application for this scheme and 

any grant sum to be allocated on foot of an application shall be final.

CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS FRIDAY 29th APRIL

2022 @ 4P.M

(Please see application form overleaf)

 

Springback: A Playback theatre performance

To register

Playback theatre is a form of improvisation where people in the audience share personal stories that are then "played back" by a team of actors and musicians. The stories can be about the everyday moments of our lives that give us meaning. We aim to create a welcoming space where everyone is heard and community unfolds.

For this performance, we will be exploring the theme of "Spring back" - as we begin to emerge from Covid restrictions, and the winter season, what is returning, what are we leaving behind and what have we learned? Come explore these questions through theatre and personal storytelling with us. 

Admission to the workshop is via donation to the Irish Refugee Council. Suggested donation is €10.00, or what you can give. The Irish Refugee Council are supporting those fleeing conflict in the Ukraine, as well as many others whose homes are currently not a safe place.

Location: Crawford College of Art and Design, Sherman Crawford Street, Cork City
Time: 7:00-9:00
Date: Monday, March 28th

To register: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/springback-a-playback-theatre-performance-tickets-297963044487

General Info

Date Entered/Updated

15th Mar, 2022

Region

Cork City

Expiry Date

28th Mar, 2022

Living Well Programme Update

 For more information call 087 1832648 or email Michael.Healy4@hse.ie

New Bursary Scheme for the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2022/23

  

The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, recently announced a new bursary scheme, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy, for the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries. The objective of the bursary scheme is to encourage new local research and local history studies, and a meaningful examination of local, regional, and national events during the Struggle for Independence and Civil War period.

  Further information/bursary criteria at https://www.ria.ie/decade-centenaries-bursary.  Closing date for receipt of applications 5.30pm Wednesday, 27th April 2022.