Welcome to our bi-monthly ezine where we
keep you updated regarding recently registered volunteering opportunities
If you are available to give your support or need additional information about any of the roles featured contact:
Olena @ 085 755 7931
Or you can search for an opportunity that suits you via our website
Volunteer for The Fleadh Outdoor Events & Car Parks – Wicklow & Leinster Fleadh 2024 (Wicklow Town)
 The Leinster Fleadh, or Fleadh Laighean, takes place annually, with competitors qualifying by competing in their county fleadhanna (of which there are twelve throughout the province).
This year’s Leinster Fleadh will offer a range of competitions, hosted between 12th and 14th of July in Wicklow Town!
The Fleadh is far more than a music competition and serves as a celebration of traditional Irish culture and heritage.
During the 3 days and evenings of the Leinster Fleadh, from the 12th to the 14th July, we will have lots of outdoor entertainment on the streets of Wicklow Town.
There will be a big stage in Abbey Street Car Park for entertainers. We will require volunteers for this area and other sites and venues on all three days.
Volunteer Shifts are 3 to 4 hours long and are available mornings, afternoons, & evenings on all three days.
Hygiene Hub Wicklow
 We believe no child should be experiencing hygiene poverty. This time of the year causes a financial strain on most families; the cost of books, uniforms, and everything else involved can quickly add up.
For some families, this strain will mean making some very difficult choices. We want to help those households and ensure that no child has to go to school without having access to everyday essentials that most of us take for granted.
How can you help?
Choose whether you would like to support a primary or secondary school child and donate items for them at one of our drop-off points in Wicklow.
If you would like to make a larger product donation, please get in touch with us by emailing wicklow@hygienehub.ie and we will arrange something as we don’t want to overwhelm the small businesses who are being so generous by hosting a box for us. Help us supply the basics to the most vulnerable.
We will be collecting from now until mid-August
so we can donate in time before the schools go back.
#backtoschool #wicklow #hygienehub #tacklehygienepoverty
Care & Learn Ireland (CALI) (Newtownmountkennedy)
 CALI Centres – Care and Learn Ireland is an innovative initiative that provides a Learning Day Service for young adults with a severe to profound intellectual disability.
It provides education, multidisciplinary therapies, and care to recent school leavers. Previously school leavers in this cohort had little access to appropriate formal learning opportunities.
This cohort of society urgently needs further learning pathways. Without continuing learning opportunities these young adults risk losing the skills, knowledge, and advances gained in school.
This is an exciting initiative that has the potential to transform the lives of people with severe to profound intellectual disability.
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links below for a full role description:
English Language Conversation Tutor – Church of the Nazerene (Greystones)
 The focus of the classes is on conversation and are informal in nature. To teach conversational English to new migrants in small groups (3 to 4 students)
Classes take place on Monday, Wednesday & Friday mornings from 10am to 12pm at various locations.
Tasks will include:
- Prepare a lesson plan & bring in your own ideas and materials for conversation classes
- Welcome new students to the group, making them feel at ease
- Lead a conversation class with a small group
Edible Bray Volunteers
 Edible Bray is creating a free food trail around Bray with apple orchards and fruit bushes, kale, sunflowers and edible flowers in the most unlikely of places, cherry tomatoes and delicious peas, free for the picking.
A few days each week, members of Edible Bray come together at certain times and places to continue the work of nurturing this living gift to Bray and its community.
All are welcome to come along and Get Involved.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
We also need new, consistent volunteers for these tasks:
- gardening type work
- co-ordination of some of the events we have committed to
- organising volunteer days
- organising seed swap days (can be at the library or another public space)
- running our Instagram
- running our Facebook
- Attending Community Garden and other sister organisation meetings (online and in person)
We can be found, making our dream come true, at the following locations, weather Permitting:
Community Representative – East Coast Regional Drugs & Alcohol Task Force
 Do you want to make a positive difference in your community? Are you currently involved in your community in any capacity or wish to get involved?
We are a multi-agency partnership that discusses and make decisions on the provision of services in this region appropriate to the needs identified. Our members are other community representatives, voluntary services representatives and statutory agencies. Involvement from the community is essential so that local knowledge and insight can be considered when we address the needs in current service provision.
The Task Force asks that the volunteer has some connections and insight into the workings of their community and the concerns and needs (often hidden) linked to addiction and social inclusion in their communities.
Documents will be circulated by email (or post, if requested) to members, so that all attendees are informed on the issues to be discussed and decided upon. You will act as an ambassador for the task force and for your community, signposting people towards appropriate services and information sharing with agencies on the task force for the purposes of a collaborative and holistic community approach.
Meetings are held at various locations in the region but transport costs and parking costs will be met. It is important that the volunteer attends regularly and takes an active part in the discussions and decisions. Occasionally some evening events held that members would be expected to attend.
Committee Members – Arklow Maritime Museum
 Over the past few years, Arklow Maritime Museum has doubled in size, has developed a very successful Schools Programme, and our annual visitor numbers have increased ten-fold.
We are members of the Irish Museums Association of Ireland and have embarked on getting full Museum Accreditation Standard from the Heritage Council of Ireland. The museum has a great staff, supplied by ABEC and TÚS, who carry out all the day-to-day tasks that keep the museum open and thriving 361 days a year – that is, open seven-days-a-week including bank holidays, and are closed only on New Year’s Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and St Stephens’ Day.
All this increased activity has put a strain on the small voluntary committee who run it and we are putting out a call to anyone who feels they can help plan its future.
We need help with on-going projects, plan future policies and smoothly run what has essentially become a small not-for-profit community enterprise. Strange as it may seem, a knowledge of, or even an interest in history, local or otherwise, is not essential.
Right now, it is organisational and business skills that are most required. We need new committee members to help us plan policy, chase funding and to generally get us to the next stage of our development.
Anyone, particularly anyone with business or management experience, willing to volunteer a few hours a month, we meet up the last Thursday evening of each month at 7.00pm, will help ensure Arklow Maritime Museum will be open for the next 50 years.
First Responder – Bray Cardiac First Responders
 Volunteers are required to give a commitment of a minimum of 4 hours a week. All training needed will be provided to the new responders and you will be required to do training one evening each month, the first Thursday of each month. New volunteers will work alongside an experienced responder for the first few months.
The National Ambulance Service (NAS) notifies Bray Cardiac First Responders (Bray CFR) of their need to attend a call via text message. Bray CFR do not attend trauma cases but are requested to respond to situations related to Stroke, Collapse, Chest Pain, Cardiac Arrest, Choking. The target response time from receiving a call to attending a scene is 6 minutes.
First responders offer reassurance and comfort, preform CPR, use a defibrillator etc.
Conversational English Group – Dunlavin Library
 We are planning to have an informal conversational English language group that meets in Dunlavin library each Tuesday evening from 6.45pm-7.45pm.
New residents of Dunlavin will be invited to come to practice their spoken English with a group of volunteers.
These sessions will give our new community members the chance to listen and chat in English in an informal and friendly setting. It will be a fun and sociable group whose main aim is to give the learners confidence to chat and socialise in English.
Charity Shop Assistant – Vincent’s Charity Shop (Greystones)
Our Vincent’s shops are a very important aspect of the service SVP provides. Not only do they provide people with new and lightly worn items at affordable prices, they also provide an income source for the Society, which is recycled directly back into the community.
The shops are managed by a small number of professionals; assisted by a large number of volunteers; and by community employment trainees.
Volunteers will be part of a team and will carry out the following tasks:-
- Support the manager with the implementation of their COVID Protocols in the shop e.g. control numbers accessing the shop
- Operate the cash register, if comfortable doing so
- Sort and price goods and prepare them for sale
- Deal with customer enquires
- Maintain shop displays
Volunteers shifts are from 10am to 2pm or 2pm to 5pm, volunteers are asked to commit to 3 to 4 hours a day.
Tinahely Tidy Towns
 Tinahely Tidy Towns volunteers work together to enhance Tinahely’s natural, built and social environment, making it a better place to live for everyone in the community.
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links to read the role description:
Arklow Community Action Resource Centre
 Our aim is to provide Community Development, Women’s groups, Men’s groups and Foodcloud deliveries in the town of Arklow and surrounding areas.
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links to read the role description:
Catering Assistant – Gerri’s Place (Arklow)
 Gerri’s place is a non-profit, social enterprise that provides wellbeing breaks for people who need time and space to focus on their emotional and mental wellbeing.
Support our caterer with preparation and tidying up. You will be assisting our cook in the kitchen. We need 1 volunteer every Friday from 1-5 pm.
You can do it once off or regularly.
Join us today.
Horticulturalist or Landscape Designer – Greystones Tidy Towns
 Greystones Tidy Towns was established over 20 years ago to enable the community to work together to ensure Greystones would always be a great place to live, work and visit. We have a strong alliance with the municipal district council, as well as other community groups and local schools.
Our mission is to keep the lovely town of Greystones worthy of the Gold Medal it won in the National Tidy Towns Competition 2022, and also worthy of its title of one of the World’s Most Liveable Communities in 2021.
We are looking for a volunteer with horticultural and/or landscape design experience to join the Greystones Tidy Towns committee.
The role will include:
- Working with the volunteers to coordinate care and maintenance of green sites throughout the town.
- Developing and implementing plans for the development of new green sites in the town.
- Recording activities for the annual National Tidy Towns competition submission.
- Updating activities at monthly committee meetings.
- Integrating biodiversity and sustainable practices in horticultural activities.
Irish Deaf Society Charity Shop (Bray)
 The Irish Deaf Society seeks to achieve and promote the Equality and Rights of Deaf people in Ireland. On the grounds of the Irish Constitution and Human Rights and international legislation, the ambition of full access to citizenship and society is sought through the empowerment and mobilisation of the Deaf community.
There’s a new shop in town and you could become part of the volunteering team!
Volunteers tasks will involve the following –
- Greeting and assisting customers
- Assisitng donors with questions and queries
- Till operation (training provided)
- Preparing donations for shop floor- cleaning, steaming, hanging & tagging
- Creating window and shop dislpays
- General housekeeping and stockroom duties
East Coast Samaritans (Arklow)
 For over 40 years, Samaritans volunteers have been available to those experiencing depression, relationship and family issues, loneliness, isolation, physical and mental health issues and suicidal thoughts and feelings.
Our incredible volunteers offer their time to help to deliver our 24-hour emotional support service to callers in many ways, from answering telephones and emails, to fundraising, generating publicity, administration and finance.
You don’t need to have been through a particular life experience or be from a certain walk of life. Anyone who wants to help others, is tolerant and open-minded is welcome to apply.
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links to read the role description:
Delgany Tidy Towns
 Our quest is to make Delgany the best it can be. To create a vision for Delgany that will result in a vibrant, active & sustainable community. The main objectives for Delgany Tidy Towns are to:
- Create a vision for Delgany that will result in a vibrant, active and sustainable community.
- Improve the quality of life for the residents and visitors to the village and environs.
- Maintain the heritage and character of the village.
- Involve all the community in the development of the village and environs.
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links to read the role description:
Volunteer To Support Older People – Making Connections (South Dublin)
 We are seeking a volunteer assistant to support the work of local organisation, Making Connections – alleviating isolation and loneliness for older people in the community.
This is a rewarding hands on role. You can be flexible and carry out the activities in your own time during the week. Activities include:
- Check-in calls/visits to older people on the waiting list
- Once off visits to older people with specific short term support needs (e.g. form filling/ accessing information)
- Ad hoc visits to those needing additional support
- Sending updates to the staff team
- Other activities to support the organisation (depending on your skills/ preferences)
Ageing is inevitable – loneliness doesn’t have to be.
Can you play a part in the solution?
Friends Of The Elderly Ireland (Dublin 1 or remote)
 Friends of the Elderly is an Irish volunteer based charity established in 1980 to bring friendship and companionship to older people living alone or who may feel lonely.
Friends of the Elderly is a voluntary, non-denominational organisation whose aim is to improve senior citizens’ quality of life by providing them with opportunities for socialising and participating in community activities.
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links to read the role description:
Why not volunteer in your local charity shop?
 Many charity shops in Wicklow are recruiting volunteers to join their teams and support them with the tremendous work they do generating funds for their respective charities.
Volunteering is a great opportunity to meet people & have fun. Shop volunteers can help in many different ways – preparing goods for sale, helping customers in the shop and helping at the till. They provide a friendly welcome to customers and help the shops to run smoothly. We have roles in garden, furniture & retail shops across the country!
If you have 2 hours or more to spare, on a day of your choosing, from Monday to Sunday, then contact:
Yvonne @ 085 862 1525 or email yvonne@volunteerwicklow.ie or
Fiona @ 086 325 8803 or email fiona@volunteerwicklow.ie
We will chat with you about the shop that is
most local to you & needs YOU to volunteer!
Looking For Something Different?
 If the above opportunities are not quite right for you, remember you can search for other options on I-VOL the national database of volunteering.
Alternatively you can reply to this email to connect with a member of the County Wicklow Volunteer Centre Team if you would like some help advancing your interest – we’re always here to help.
https://www.i-vol.ie/
#VolunteerFromHome
Volunteering is a wonderful way to connect with one another and the causes we care about.
As part of #VolunteerFromHome we are highlighting below some wonderful opportunities where you can volunteer from home.
The list is endless so
Administrator – Féach
 Féach works to empower parents to support their blind and visually impaired children to ensure they thrive and lead independent lives.
We are looking looking for a volunteer Administrator, working remotely, who can undertake the following taks:
- Answering Emails queries,
- Typing minutes of meeting,
- Compiling and circulating Board Papers,
- Communicating with board members and executive,
- Supporting Advocacy and Communication Manager on various projects throughout the year.
Remote Translators/Interpretors – DePaul
 Depaul is a homeless charity providing accommodation and support through hostels and outreach services. Depaul believes that everyone should have a place to call home and a stake in their community.
Our aim is to work with those who are socially excluded and marginalised by providing a quality led service in order to produce the best possible outcomes for those accessing our services. We work in partnership with central and local government, housing associations and other non-governmental organisations such as the society of St Vincent de Paul.
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links to read the role description:
Volunteer with Aware
Aware is the national organisation providing free support, education and information services to those impacted by anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and related mood conditions.
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links below for a full role description:
Cheer Sport Ireland
 Cheerleading is now a recognized Olympic Sport so the role of Cheer Sport Ireland is to:
- Promote good governance for registered clubs, athletes, coaches and supporters
- Give training and guidance for all coaches
- Promote our sport of Cheer and Performance Cheer thorough opportunities for clubs to compete at the highest level at Worlds and Europeans.
- Continue to ensure our committee is compliant with the Company Secretary
Currently recruiting volunteers for the following roles, click on the links below for a full role description:
Survey Participant – PRISM Project
 Dr. Sadhbh Byrne, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Maynooth University, is undertaking a research study called PRISM, in partnership with Mental Health Ireland.
This study is funded by the Irish Research Council. The research assistant working on this study is Georgia Brown. The PRISM study is exploring the support that young people provide to friends who are experiencing mental health challenges or going through a tough time.
If you are aged 18-25, live on the island of Ireland, and have experience supporting a friend through a tough time, you are invited to participate in the PRISM Project.
The study aims to understand what sort of support is provided by friends, and what the experience of supporting a friend is like. This information will be collected through a survey.
The survey was designed in partnership with a group of 6 young adults living in Ireland, who themselves have experience providing support to friends. If you decide to take part, you will be asked to answer a series of questions concerning your experience of providing mental health support to a friend. You will also be asked some short sociodemographic questions (e.g., your age, gender, ethnic/cultural background).
Participation should take approximately 15 minutes. This is an anonymous survey. The survey will not ask you to provide any identifiable information (e.g., your name, email address) at any stage and your IP address will not be collected.
You will be asked questions about your age, gender, ethnic/cultural background, the county you live in, and whether you are currently studying or working. Other survey questions will be about the support you provided to a friend, what the experience of providing support was like, and what information and resources might be helpful for young people providing support. You do not need to answer any questions you don’t feel comfortable answering.
IT Operations Manager – Cuidiú
 Cuidiú, the national charity, is seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated IT Operations Manager to join our Admin Council management team. Reporting directly to the IT Director, the IT Operations Manager will play a pivotal role in driving and implementing IT strategic rollouts that support Cuidiú’s mission and goals.
This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute your IT expertise to a dynamic organisation dedicated to making a positive impact on the community.
Key Responsibilities:
1. IT Planning and Implementation:
- Collaborate with the IT Director to develop and execute IT strategic plans aligned with Cuidiú’s mission and objectives.
- Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of IT projects and initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and successful outcomes.
- Support and work with Cuidiú’s management team (the Administrative Council/ AC) to help the organisation understand new IT developments and align with long-term IT strategies.Key projects on the horizon include:
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure IT system resiliency.
- Website redesign or update.
- Source and implement a new Membership System.
2. Operational Management:
- Oversee the day-to-day IT operations, ensuring the efficient functioning of Cuidiú’s technology infrastructure.
- Establish an IT team as needed and provide technical leadership and guidance, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Continuously evaluate, recommend, and implement technology solutions that enhance Cuidiú’s operational efficiency and effectiveness in conjunction with the IT Director.
- Monitor and maintain the organisation’s Google Workspace account and suggest applications that can improve internal business communication.
- Develop and deliver training programs as necessary to enhance IT literacy among Cuidiú Volunteers.
- Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and service level agreements to ensure compliance and satisfactory performance.
- Monitor and enforce cybersecurity best practices to safeguard Cuidiú’s digital assets and sensitive information.
Note:
This is a voluntary (unpaid) position within Cuidiú. All Directors and members of the Administrative Council work on a voluntary basis to govern Cuidiú according to our constitution.
Time Commitment:
We meet on a monthly basis online and aim to meet in person twice yearly. Typical contributions vary greatly but are between 2-3 hours per week.
International Volunteer Roles
Comhlámh and Volunteer Ireland are delighted to unveil an innovative online service catering to individuals interested in volunteering in the Global South, click here to find out more.
We are pleased to announce that the national volunteering database I-VOL, coordinated by Volunteer Ireland, has been expanded to include volunteering placements outside Ireland.
You can now browse these opportunities, provided by Members of Comhlámh’s Code of Good Practice for Volunteer Sending Agencies, who are at the forefront, offering unique placements rooted in values-led, solidarity-based international volunteering.
Don’t forget you can drop your donations for the Hygiene Hub Wicklow to our office in Bray!
Hygiene Hub collects new, unused, in-date personal care and household cleaning essentials.
We know that the needs of every person and household are different, so our rule of thumb is: If you need an item, then it is likely someone else needs it too.
We accept everything from shampoo to deodorant to laundry detergent to kid’s products. Unfortunately, we do not accept adult incontinence products.
Please only donate what you would consider happily gifting a friend.
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