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.

Merchants Quay Ireland: MSIF Community Fund

MQI are making you aware of the MSIF Community Fund and to offer the opportunity of applying for a funding grant, if you choose to do so. The types of projects supported in our previous round of applications include projects for young people (sporting activities, youth engagement projects, community support.

Dublin

National Training Fund (NTF) Carmichael Webinar: Excel and AI

As part of the National Training Fund 2025 Programme, Carmichael is hosting a free NTF webinar on “Excel and AI – how can AI help with formulas and more?” with Anne Walsh. This 50 minute webinar will include how to use an AI tool (Co-Pilot/Chat GPT) to summarize the results of a set of questionnaires with actionable points.

Online / Zoom

STAND: Skills for Transformation - An Introduction to Facilitation

This immersive, participatory 2-day training explores today’s complex and interconnected crises through role play, debate, art, movement, and other creative active citizenship methods. Ideal for students or recent graduates (18+), activists, professionals and anyone passionate about social change, community organising, and global citizenship education.

Dublin 2

The Anne Sullivan Centre: Volunteer Drivers

We are recruiting Volunteer Drivers to provide transport for our service users so they can fully participate in community life and activities that are important to them.

Stillorgan, Co Dublin

Rethink Ireland: Hi Digital Fund

Rethink Ireland, in partnership with the Vodafone Foundation, SmartSimple, private donors and the Department of Rural and Community Development, invite applications from projects and organisations that innovatively work to empower Ireland’s older adults to enhance their digital literacy.

Nationwide

Housing a core part of support and care of older people

There is an urgent need to focus on housing as a core part of the continuum of support and care for people – this is the key message of a housing seminar called The Big H taking place in Castlebar (16/4/25).

Nationwide

The Wheel: May Leadership Academy Breakfast Club

The final Breakfast Club of our third series is here. If you have been promising yourself you’ll get to one, now is the time! On the 22nd May 2025 at 10am we will be in the Claremont Stadium in County Meath, discussing a very pertinent theme of Leadership and Allyship.

Co Meath

HUGG Waterford - Suicide Bereavement Pop-up Café

Whether you’ve lost a friend, family member, neighbour, teammate, or colleague, and if you are over 18, you are welcome to come along. Take some time for yourself, to share memories of your loved one, exchange coping strategies, or simply be in the company of others who truly understand.

Dungarvan, Co Waterford

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 Course

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

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