We would like to wish all our member groups the happiest, healthiest, and safest new year and we look forward to working side-by-side in 2025, to help make Dublin city, the best it can be.
This week’s bulletin has information, updates about capacity building training and news from the Secretariat and PPN Representatives.
Please contact Ruth or Siobhán if you would like further information about anything in the Bulletin.
Happy 2025!
Information
S3 Solutions were asked by the Department of Rural and Community Development (DRCD) to conduct research on “Barriers to Participation in Public Participation Networks (PPNs), and is particularly interested in hearing from young people, ethnic minorities, LGBTQI+ groups, ex-offenders and people with disabilities/disabled people. If you would like to participate in an interview with S3, between 06 – 14 January, please book a slot here. You can also (or alternatively) complete this short survey here. Many thanks for participating in such vital research.
Connecting for life would like to share its newsletter with PPN member groups here.
Climate Hero would like to ask you to calculate your carbon footprint for 2024 and you can use the Climate Hero carbon calculator here.
Corncrake Life would like PPN member groups to complete a short questionnaire on Survey Monkey here The survey is open to anyone with an interest in the Corncrake LIFE project, or with wider experience of conservation and/or environment. The survey will take about ten minutes.
Coilite are currently seeking expressions of interest (EoI) from suppliers of mobile coffee and catering units who would be interested in working in some high use recreation sites around the country. If you are interested, please complete the EOI form, which can be accessed when you click here.
The Department of Rural and Community Development (DRCD) would like to share a snapshot of the year, for 2023, with PPNs across the country. You can access the snapshot here. The full annual report for 2023, is currently in the design and translation stage and will be published as soon as possible in the coming weeks and refers to all 31 PPNs across the country.
Training and Events
Social Justice Ireland invite you to sign up for a self-paced PPN Stakeholder Training here. The online training covers an introduction to the PPN, local government budgets, PPNs and local government, effective participation in consultations, effective facilitation, strategic planning and measuring outcomes and impacts. There are no scheduled classes, as it is designed as self-directed learning to be worked through at the learners’ pace. This training programme is offered free of charge.
Change of VENUE: Please note that the 2025 Dublin Northwest Partnership (DNP) Social Inclusion Seminar, will take place in the Carlton Hotel, Old airport Road, Cloghran, Dublin K67P5C7 on Friday 07 February from 9.00am – 1.00pm, followed by lunch. The event will celebrate the work being done within local areas and provide information about the 2025 DNP community grants. Registration is here.
The Wheel would like to share its calendar of upcoming training and events for all our PPN member groups here. Topics include (but are not limited to) grant writing tips, GDPR compliancy, Theory of Change and group coaching.
Updates from the Secretariat and Representatives
The Secretariat of Dublin City PPN will meet for their monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of every month, beginning in January 2025 up to December 2025. Your can access the list of Secretariat members, PPN Representatives and thematic group members here.
The core objective of the PPN is to help member groups participate more in local authority decision making and to that end, the PPN has 30 seats, held by 28 people. There are five seats on the Local Community Development Committee (LCDC), fifteen seats across seven Strategic Policy Committees (SPCs), one on the Joint Policing Committee (JPC), and all this is steered by a nine-person Secretariat. You can read more about these committees here. It is our hope, in 2025, to establish three working groups to connect the wider PPN to the representatives; and we hope to open up one group for each pillar (community and voluntary, social inclusion and environmental).
More news about this, to come…
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