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.

Cork Life Centre: Volunteer Tutor Needed

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

Cork

Mentoring with Confidence

This 1-day certified course will introduce participants to the key principles of mentoring, equip them with the necessary skills to effectively support mentees, and provide practical tools / techniques that will enable employees to make a positive impact as mentors.

Online / Zoom

HUGG Waterford - Suicide Bereavement Pop-up Café

If you have lost a loved one to suicide, recently or many years ago, you are warmly invited to join us for a complimentary cuppa and chat with others who understand your grief. Led by trained volunteers with a lived experience of suicide loss, our pop-up café offers a safe, non-judgmental space for social connection, mutual support and shared understanding.

Dungarvan, Co Waterford

HUGG Kerry - Suicide Bereavement Pop-up Café

If you have lost a loved one to suicide, recently or many years ago, you are warmly invited to join us for a complimentary cuppa and chat with others who understand your grief. Led by trained volunteers with a lived experience of suicide loss, our pop-up café offers a safe, non-judgmental space for social connection, mutual support and shared understanding.

Tralee, Co Kerry

Castlemaine Community Services: Volunteers

We are seeking volunteers to support the running of our operations in the mid Kerry area. We are especially interested in those with finance, legal or administrative backgrounds.

Co Kerry

Help Celebrate 40 Years of Gaisce & sign up for the Be the Arrow Challenge

This May, we are celebrating 40 years of Gaisce - The President’s Award - with a national call to action. Whether you’re 8 or 80, we’re inviting people of all ages to take on a personal challenge that inspires them - either by volunteering, getting active, or learning a new skill. 

Nationwide

Fusion Training & Development: Ongoing courses in Group Facilitation, Train the Trainer & Conflict Management

Fusion Training offer QQI certified programmes in Facilitation, Train the Trainer, Conflict Management and Wellbeing & Flourishing. They also offer bespoke training. Courses are delivered by Gerard Fitzpatrick, author of the acclaimed books Crossing the Threshold (Fusion Press, 2020) and Effective Group Leadership (Orpen Press, 2016).

Nationwide

Bóthar: Easter Appeal

Bóthar has supported vital programmes for survivors of trafficking in Tanzania. Most importantly, your donation will help fund Spring of Hope, a shelter and training centre offering care, counselling, and skills development for girls rescued from trafficking.

Nationwide

Dignity Partnership Academy: Upcoming Training Courses

We have two upcoming (free to attend) Training Courses; Online Digital Skills; and Unlock the secrets of Power Dynamics. Our aim is to help equip new communities with the essential knowledge and tools they need to navigate through Irish society.

Online & TU Dublin

Free NALA Webinar: Top plain English tips for writing for the web

Join the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) on 25 April from 10:00am - 11:00am for a free interactive online workshop for people working with members of the public. You will learn top tips on how to use plain English guidelines when writing for the web.

Online

Mental Health Ireland: Board Trustee

Mental Health Ireland in advance of their 2025 AGM are seeking to recruit 4 new trustees to replace end of term rotations on the Board of Directors.

Nationwide

New IHREC and ESRI report finds only half of fathers avail of Paternity Leave

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) have published a new report titled "Child Related Leave: Usage and Implications for Gender Equality." This report examines the usage of child-related leave benefits in Ireland and their implications for gender equality in the workplace.

Nationwide

ASIST Training (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) – IICP Tallaght

This two-day training is a two-day skills building workshop in suicide first aid. Participants are trained to reduce the immediate risk of a suicide and increase the support for a person at risk. . The workshop provides opportunities to learn what a person at risk may need from others to keep safe and get more help.

Dublin 24

Understanding Self Harm – IICP Tallaght

This one-day training is designed to raise awareness for individuals and agencies who seek to understand more about self-harm, the reasons underlying self-harm behaviours and improve upon personal and agency responses to those who self-harm. Training is free and suitable for those age over 18.

Dublin 24

HSE: safeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone) - Barna

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.

Barna, Co Galway

ATD Ireland: #LeaveNoOneBehind Project Launch

We are proud to invite you to our #LeaveNoOneBehind Project Launch 23rd April 2pm until 4pm film exhibition, interactive workshops, and refreshments.

Dublin 2

Irish Hospice Foundation: Scholarships in End-of-Life & Bereavement Care

We offer a small number of scholarships up to the value of €3,000 each to make education in end-of-life and bereavement care accessible to multiple disciplines (nursing, medicine, allied health professionals and others). Two scholarships will be reserved for those working in palliative care.

Nationwide

HSE: safeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone) - Loughrea

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.

Loughrea, Co Galway

Mental Health First Aid Ireland: Mental Heal First Aid Training

Mental Health First Aid teaches participants how to recognise the signs / symptoms of mental health problems & understand what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective. Learn a framework for communication, how to offer and provide initial help.

Clonakilty, Co Cork