PPN Bulletin
Information
The Department of Rural and Community Development (DRCD) has changed its name to the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (DRCDG). In Irish this is: An Roinn Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail agus Gaeltachta. Therefore, the email addresses you might have for people in the department have also changed to:
Dublin City Council (DCC) are pleased to share their latest edition of the Dublin City focused Funding Point Digest for information and circulation here. This is a one-stop-shop for all grants and fundraising opportunities within Dublin City.
The Wheel would like to invite PPN member groups to a session called, “Writing your EU funding application”. This event will demonstrate best practice in writing EU funding applications. The session will offer practical tips for co-writing applications with partners, understanding how to answer key project questions and information which is needed beyond the idea itself – how to describe your project management, impact and sustainable activities. Further information about this key session is here.
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) invite you to sign up to their newsletter on updates on resources and events. You can sign up for FREE here. NALA would also like to promote their “Understanding adult literacy, numeracy and digital literacy” online course here.
PPN Training
New Members Meet-Up: An introduction to the PPN on the last Tuesday of the month. This one hour, online, general introduction session is for member groups that have recently joined the PPN. Come to this informal online session, meet Ruth and Siobhán, and learn about the PPN and other members. The next meeting is on Tuesday 24 June from 7.00pm – 8.00pm and please email Siobhán at for the zoom link.
Irish Environmental Network (IEN) PPN training videos, resources and supports
The IEN have a wide range of diverse supports for PPN member groups, including:
- Making an impact in local policy creation: an introduction to Strategic Policy Committees with Catherine O’Toole. Access the video here.
- How to make impactful contributions to the SPCs as a PPN Representative with Catherine O’Toole and Cllr Dermot O’Brien. Access to the video here.
- An introduction to the Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) with Catherine O’Toole and Kelley Bermingham. Access to the video here.
- Achieving Results as a PPN Environmental Representative with Justine Byrne. Access to the video here. (The video recording is troubled until 00.36 when it plays smoothly).
Updates from the PPN
The photo gallery from the Closing Ceremony of the PPN/DCU Summer School are on the PPN website here. Please feel free to share them, download them and use them on your own websites and social media platforms, and once again, thank you to all the wonderful participants, lecturers and staff who made the week so wonderful.
The full update about Summer School 2025 is here.
The Public Participation Network (PPN) is a network of groups and organisations interested in local authority decision making. It is a network of groups and organisations, who share information and access capacity building training, but the core work of the PPN is the committee and sub-committee work with Dublin City Council.
If you belong to a member group and are interested in learning more about the core work of the network, you can learn most by watching the committee meetings in practice. Each committee has PPN representatives, who represent you – the member groups.
You can access the meetings live or from the archives here.
You can access your full list of Representatives here
The PPN pillar working groups are places where the PPN representatives will feed back to the wider PPN, and feed forward any concerns, comments or questions you have about policy issues and development, within the SPC areas. You can contact your representative through the pillar working groups, and we hope these hubs will support and invigorate our representatives.
Please follow the Dublin City PPN on our social media channels of Facebook and LinkedIn and you can find us at @dublincityppn
