Information
The Department of Rural and Community Development (DRCD) would like to share the Public Participation Networks (PPN) annual report for 2023. You can read through the report here. Please feel free to share it with your member groups and organisations. The report is a summary of the outcomes of all 31 PPNs across the country. Dublin City PPN’s Migrant Thematic Group is mentioned on page 38, and a spotlight on the PPN’s Festival of Fundraising is made on page 52. Dublin City PPN’s joint submission to the Local Economic Community Plan (LECP), is also highlighted on page 65.
Dublin City Council (DCC) are pleased to announce the dates for this year’s Dublin Learning City Festival 2025 are Monday 07 April – Wednesday 09 April 2025. The theme for this year’s festival is Create, Connect, Change, and if you are interested in taking part, please email the organisers at: Or you can register your event directly here.
Dublin City PPN is hosted by Dublin City Volunteer Centre (DCVC), and they would like to remind all PPN member groups that they offer a wide range of supports to volunteer involving organisations. You can access resources here for organisations, such as planning and recruiting volunteers, day-to-day volunteer management, dealing with challenging situations and safeguarding.
Connections Arts Centre would like to invite PPN members to apply for the 2025 Connecting Artists Programme, which specifically supports artists who face challenges or barriers in accessing formal and informal art education and supports. You can find out more about this programme here.
Training for PPN member groups
Dublin City PPN invite all member groups to complete the training needs survey below. The PPN provides capacity building training to member groups, so that they might participate more in local authority decision making. Please complete the survey, so that we can curate the most useful and fun series of training sessions for 2025. You can access the survey here.
Dublin City PPN invite all those people who attended the “Reset: Recharge” workshops with Martin Saunders and Eveanna O’Meara to a follow up “Reconnect Workshop” on Thursday 06 February from 9.30am – 12.00pm Please email Ruth to book your FREE place, but only if you attended one of the earlier workshops, as this is follow-on work.
Save the date: there will be another “Support for PPN Representatives” meeting on Friday 21 February. The day will follow much the same format as the November meeting: an update and a catch-up meeting with Ellenora Lynch, lunch and a site visit. We hope to finalise the Pillar Working Groups formatting in this meeting. Venue to be confirmed, but please save the date if you are a PPN representative.
Updates from PPN Representatives and Secretariat
The Housing and Social Inclusion Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) met on Monday 27 January and you can access the public-i.tv link to this meeting here. There are three PPN representatives on this committee:
Mike Allen from Focus Ireland, (Community and Voluntary Pillar).
Oisín O’Reilly from Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre (Social Inclusion Pillar).
Sinead Murphy from Meeting Place Club (Social Inclusion Pillar).
You are welcome to contact the PPN reps at any time, however, we are very much hoping to form “Pillar Working Groups” in the next few months, where people can feed into and feedback from the committees with Dublin City Council, to the wider PPN.
In the past, we tried to create so-called Linkage Groups, with varying success, and so the pillar working groups are an evolution of these. We hope that these working groups will help communicate the flow of information around the network, in an easier and more digestible way.
More information about these working groups as it comes.
You can email Ruth or Siobhán with comments and questions about the Dublin City PPN.
