Cork Volunteer Centre Training Opportuinites

 

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Cork Volunteer Centre provides regular training opportunities to organisations registered with us. 

Volunteer Leadership Training:

Volunteer Leadership Training is tailored for delivery to those within organisations who are responsible for

(1) Planning volunteer programmes;
(2) Recruiting & selecting volunteers;
(3) Maintaining and Supervising volunteers; 

(4) Overseeing the volunteer policy within the organisation.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. We anticipate demand for this course will be high. However, we will operate a waiting list system in the event of cancellations.

Click HERE to express your interest in this training. 

OUTREACH 

If you are looking for volunteers or/and have any questions in relation to volunteer management, you can have a chat with our placement officers Ciara and Gosia. Please see dates and locations below.

   OUTREACH CORK CITY

Ciara will be visiting Douglas on April 13th. 

Visit our Pop up Volunteer Centre at Douglas Library between 12.30pm to 3.30pm

Please reserve your spot HERE

Or contact Ciara directly Ciara@volunteercork.ie

Upcoming Outreach:

Ciara will be  visiting Ballincollig on May 10th .

Appointments can be booked between 10am - 1pm.

Please contact Ciara (ciara@volunteercork.ie) to reserve your spot.

OUTREACH CORK COUNTY

Gosia will be in Charleville on  March 28th.

Please contact please contact Gosia (gosia@volunteercork.ie) if you would like to reserve your spot.

Upcoming Outreach:

Gosia will be visiting Carrigaline on April 19th. 

Visit our Pop up Volunteer Centre at Carrigaline Family Support Centre between 10am - 1pm.

To reserve your time spot HERE  or contact Gosia directly.

PROMOTE YOUR ORGANISATIONS ROLES

If you are looking to promote volunteer roles in your organisation let us know or you can directly put up the roles HERE. If you don't know your organisation key code contact us and we can send it on to you.

Our placement officers advertise local roles when doing outreach, so get your roles into us soon, if you want them to be included at our next outreach events to get them most out of advertising the roles.

UPCOMING EVENTS

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK 

National Volunteering Week 2023 will take place from  15th - 21st May, it is a week long celebration of volunteering.

This is a week full of events to celebrate volunteers both online and in person, with everything from yoga to coffee mornings to seminars on offer. Get your organisation involved by holding a "Thank You" event or Certificate Presentations .

Our team will be visiting many locations  in Cork City and County so keep an eye on your emails for our National Volunteer Week programme.  We have some very exciting events lined up!

REACH and Adult Literacy Fund 2023

 

REACH Fund 2023

To: All Community Education providers/groups in Cork City and County

Cork ETB Further Education and Training (FET) Service has launched an open call for funding aimed at providing support for local Community Education Providers/Groups.

The REACH Fund 2023 builds on the success of the funding proposals received under the 2022 funding scheme, and the Mitigating Against Educational Disadvantage Fund (MAEDF) in 2020 and 2021.  The purpose of the REACH fund is to go towards addressing educational disadvantage which may be experienced by learners, with a focus on supporting the engagement and reengagement of learners in the community. This funding call aims to reduce barriers to participation in FET, under an expanded range of project themes or headings.

For details and an application form www.corketb.ie

An online information and briefing session for all prospective applicant groups will be held on Friday 31^st March at 14:30. To register your interest in the scheme and information session, please go to the following link: Register Interest in the 2023 Scheme

The briefing session can be accessed by clicking the following link:

REACH 2023 Information session

Please note the closing date for submission of applications to Cork ETB is 5:00 on Friday 21^st April 2023.

Minister Simon Harris Announces Adult Literacy for Life Collaboration & Innovation Fund

 

On the 20^th March, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris announced the opening of a €1 million funding call for new projects to help address unmet literacy needs.

What is the Adult Literacy for Life Collaboration & Innovation Fund?

The ALL Collaboration and Innovation Fund is a €1 million funding call to support collaborative and innovative activities that address unmet literacy, numeracy, or digital literacy needs, develops literacy awareness, and work towards creating a more literacy-friendly society for everyone.

Aim of the Fund:

The ALL Collaboration and Innovation Fund aims to bring regional and community partners all over Ireland together in working towards creating a more literacy-aware society, and achieving the targets set out in the Adult Literacy for Life 10-Year Strategy:

·         Increasing the number of learners engaging with literacy and language support by 20,000 over the first half of the strategy’s lifetime;

·         Reduce the number of adults in Ireland with unmet literacy needs, from 18% to 7%;

·         Reduce the number of adults in Ireland with unmet numeracy needs from 25% to 12%;

·         Reduce the share of adults in Ireland without basic digital skills from 47% to 20%.

The aim of the fund is to encourage fresh and sustainable partnerships between diverse members of our literacy support landscape. That landscape includes those working in education, health, community development, local government, literacy advocacy, and NGOs, to name but a few.

Who Can Apply?

Applications to the ALL Collaboration and Innovation Fund are invited from public, non-profit, community and voluntary organisations across Ireland. A minimum of two organisations working in partnership is required to apply for the fund, with one organisation taking the lead.

Partnerships may include anyone working across Ireland’s diverse and wide-ranging support landscape, including those working in education, health, community development, literacy advocacy, NGOs, local government, civil society organisations and literacy-friendly services.

The maximum grant available is €50,000. There is no minimum amount that may be applied for. Successful projects will showcase collaboration, partnership, and meaningful literacy-awareness and learner-focused outcomes.

Closing date for application to the fund is 5pm on Friday, 14th April.

Links

Application Form

Guidelines

Terms and Conditions of the Scheme

 

SECAD is running a Photography Competition on the theme of ‘Rivers and Streams'

 

Dear all

 

SECAD is currently running a Photography Competition on the theme of ‘Rivers and Streams’ with the support of the Local Authorities Water Programme and looking forward to exhibiting winning entries in Midleton Library in due course.  Details are on the attached and on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/secadcork/ – we’re accepting entries until 19^th April in three categories, Adult, Secondary and Primary school.  We would be delighted if you could please share this information with any community groups or individuals who may be interested or able to help us spread the word. 

 

Any queries at all, please feel free to give me a call on 087 9672515

Kind regards

Nuala

087 9672515

 

 

Nuala O’Connell

SECAD Partnership CLG

Midleton Community Enterprise Centre

Owennacurra Business Park

Knockgriffin

Midleton

Co. Cork

IRELAND

P25 Y893

Pride in Our Community Awards Mitchelstown Community Council

 We would like to Congratulate Mitchelstown Community Council who were commended for their entry for Best Heritage Award in the Pride in Our Community Competition. Their entry was to clean up and point the Monument erected in the memory of all the people buried in the adjoining cemetery near the catholic church.

Well done Mitchelstown Community Council

For more on Pride in Our Community view our website or enter Here for 2023 

  

Pride in Our Community Awards Minane Bridge Tidy Towns

 

We would also like to Congratulate Minane Bridge Tidy Towns who were highly commended for their entry for Best Maintained Award in our Pride in Our Community Competition. Their entry was the maintenance of the entire village with particular time being spent on the enhancement of Ahane Cross and the flower beds outside the GAA.

Well done Minane Bridge Tidy Towns

For more on Pride in Our Community view our website or enter Here for 2023

Nutrition, Cooking and Wellbeing

Please see attached a poster for the upcoming Nutrition, Cooking and Wellbeing five week course that will be held in Castlelyons Community Centre. Please forward to anyone you think may be interested. 

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Kind Regards

Natasha Brosnan

Development Officer

+353 (22) 46580

+353 (86) 8899673

Newmarket and Carrigaline Alzheimer Cafes taking place in April

 

Hi all,

Please see attached information on the Newmarket and Carrigaline Alzheimer Cafes taking place in April

 

Newmarket Café

Thursday 6th April 2023 11am – 1pm

This Months Topic is: Tips on Nutrition for Healthy Brain,

Guest speaker Elaine Walsh HSE Dietician

 

Carrigaline Café

Thursday 13th April 2023 3pm – 5pm

This Months Topic is: Difficulty with Communication For People Living with Dementia

Guest Speaker: Nora Walsh Primary Care Speech & Language Therapist

 

All the best

Sheena

 

Sheena Cadoo

 

Occupational Therapist / Crystal Project Lead | BSc OT, MSc Dementia Care |Cork Kerry Community Healthcare | Health Service Executive| Memory Resource Room  | Floor 2 | Mallow Primary Healthcare Centre| Mallow | Co Cork | Eircode: P51Y8EC.

Tel. 022/58700 | Mobile 086 787 1818 | E-mail: sheena.cadoo@hse.ie | www.crystalproject.ie