Community Exchange

This is the Activelink Community Exchange noticeboard.

You can advertise here, volunteering positions, news items and many other advert types are carried free of charge. See our advertising information page.

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre: Volunteers Needed

We are seeking volunteers for the following roles: Volunteer Crisis Counsellor on the National Helpline and Volunteer Accompaniment Support at the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit.

Dublin

Mentoring with Confidence (1-day certified course)

This course will introduce participants to the key principles of mentoring and equip them with the necessary skills to effectively support mentees. The programme provides practical tools and techniques that will enable employees to make a positive impact as mentors.

Online / Zoom

Cork Life Centre: Volunteer Tutors

We are currently looking for volunteers to work with our young people across all subjects. Must have skill, experience or passion for a subject to work one to one in.

Cork

CORD Partnership launches Agenda for 2025-26 and Implementation Group

In January 2025, the Criminal justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership published An Agenda for the CORD Partnership, 2025-2026. The 2025-26 Agenda was co-created with dozens of partners in 2024 to progress the CORD Partnership’s goals over the coming years.

Nationwide

Join Volunteer Ireland’s Dynamic Volunteering Lab

Join our Dynamic Volunteering Development Lab at Volunteer Ireland and transform your volunteer programme. Volunteer Ireland is thrilled to announce our application for a Training Links Grant. This development funding programme empowers the community and voluntary sector to thrive.

Dublin

Motivational Interviewing (In-Person) Training: Intermediate - Condensed

M.I. is a conversation about change. It is a way to help someone, who is caught between different options, to move forward through reflective listening and empathy. Clinically, M.I. is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change.

Dublin

Motivational Interviewing (In-Person) Training: Introduction

M.I. is an evidence-based technique that has proven to be helpful with a wide range of individuals and issues ranging from customer service to mental health. It can be applied in collaboration with those who are looking to make a lifestyle change, such as pursuing a healthier diet, or more challenging issues such as addiction.

Dublin

Solas Project: Compass Sports Volunteer

If you are interested to volunteer in participating in Sports with young people in this field of prison setting and post release we’d love to hear from you.

Lusk, Co Dublin

Solas Project: Compass Music Volunteer

Compass provides practical, meaningful activities for the young prison population aged 15 – 24. Own means of transport to and from Oberstown youth detention centre essential.

Lusk, Co Dublin

HUGG: Free Suicide Bereavement Support Service Launched in Sligo

HUGG is the national suicide bereavement charity dedicated to supporting adults bereaved by suicide. We provide FREE practical information and emotional support after a suicide occurs through our website, telephone helpline, events, webinars and nationwide suicide bereavement support groups.

Sligo

Babywearing Ireland: Volunteers

We need people to help in person at sling meets all & people who are interested in starting a group in their area. We also need people to join our committee for roles which are remote.

Nationwide / Remote

Suicide or Survive: Free Half-Day Wellness Workshop - Edenderry

A wide range of simple practical and effective tools and tips that can be used in your everyday life to improve your own wellness. These workshops aim to help you understand and take charge of your own mental health. The workshop is for anyone over the age of 18.

Edenderry, Co Offaly

HSE: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training - 2 Days

The ASIST programme is a two-day intensive, interactive, and practice-dominated workshop designed to help Caregivers recognise the immediate risk of suicide and learn how to intervene to prevent the tragic consequences of suicide.

Galway

HSE: safeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone) - Galway

safeTALK is a 3½ hour ‘suicide alertness’ programme that prepares participants (over the age of 18 yrs.) to identify and engage with persons who may be having thoughts of suicide. Participants learn how to provide practical help by using the steps of TALK (Tell, Ask, Listen and Keepsafe).

Galway

Irish Blood Transfusion Service: Blood Donor Clinics

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) is the statutory body with responsibility for the national blood supply. The IBTS also provides testing and tissue services to hospitals and is responsible for the Irish Unrelated Bone Marrow Registry. The IBTS is committed to the highest standard of service delivery to our donors.

Nationwide

Midhe Democratic School: Art Tutor

We are now recruiting a volunteer Art Tutor to join our team, facilitating the Year of Arts Programme from January / February 2025.

Longford

(Dis)Placed – A Theatre of the Oppressed Festival - The Weight of History

Explore the powerful intersection of history, conflict, and migration in ‘The Weight of History’. This evocative event brings together stories from the past, such as the Battle of the Boyne and the Irish Famine, to reflect on the ongoing struggles of today.

Drogheda, Co Louth

(Dis)Placed – A Theatre of the Oppressed Festival - Through the Roof

‘Through the Roof’ tells the story of Maria, a resident of Porto who, on her 36th birthday, faces a shocking rent increase that threatens to leave her and her flatmates homeless. This gripping performance, presented by the Laboratory of Theatre & Politics, examines resistance and solidarity in the face of housing injustice.

Drogheda, Co Louth