Information
Dublin City PPN staff, enjoyed participating in a wonderful session at Axis Ballymun, organised by Northwest Partnership and delivered by Dr Maria Quinlan on PhotoVoice. PhotoVoice is a participatory research tool, which asks people to take photographs of a particular area or theme, in order to express their feelings about topics which can be complicated and uncomfortable. If you would like to read more about PhotoVoice, please follow this link here.
Dublin City Council (DCC), invite you to browse through their list of community funding opportunities, including information on community grants in your area, the Dublin City Fundingpoint Local Digest, Fundraising Guidance Library and Fundraising Helpdesk. You can access all this fundraising and grants information here.
Dublin City University (DCU), institute for Climate and Society is a research institute focused on social science and humanities perspectives on the climate crisis. It is a community of scholars with expertise in media, communications, political science, policy, education, ethics, business and the environmental humanities. You can sign up to their newsletter here.
EasyTreesie would like to invite schools, colleges, and community groups to request a minimum of 50 saplings, by completing the Easy Treesie sapling order form for 2025 – 2026, by Tuesday 16 December. The information you provide, will be shared with suppliers to facilitate direct delivery of the trees to your location (or to a nearby depot), by Earth Day 22 April, 2026. Please complete the form here.
BirdWatch Ireland invite you to a webinar on Wednesday 10 December at 8.00pm to discuss twelve of Ireland’s twenty four breeding sea bird species who nest on Ireland’s Eye, off the coast of Howth. Register for this delightful session at: http://bit.ly/IrelandsEyeBirds
All Together in Dignity Ireland (ATD), invite you to their “Street Singing for Change” event on Friday 12 December, from 4.00pm onwards, outside the GPO and walking towards Grafton street, and then back again to the GPO for 5.30pm Join in for a festive street singalong, a dance, a smile and a shake of a collection box. All collections taken go to support the work of ATD Ireland.
Training and Support Sessions
Social Justice Ireland (SJI) invite PPN stakeholders to sign up for the online, self-guided PPPN Stakeholder Training, which is delivered via pre-recorded training videos. SJI is providing training on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development and Gaeltacht (DRCDG), and the training sessions cover: 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. You can register for this invaluable course here.
Updates from PPN Representatives, and Secretariat
Dublin City PPN is a network of community, voluntary, social inclusion and environmental groups in Dublin City and it has three main aims:
- to share information,
- to offer capacity building training,
- and to support the PPN Representatives who sit on Dublin City Council committees.
We share information via our weekly Bulletin, social media and attendance at meetings, launches, and events.
We offer FREE capacity building training during the spring, summer and autumn and we cover a wide range of topics.
And we currently have 20 PPN Representatives on 7 strategic policy committees (SPCs), and the Local Community Development Committee (LCDC). These representatives were nominated and elected from their pillars of community and voluntary, social inclusion and environment.
The PPN is steered or directed by a Secretariat of nine people, again nominated and elected by their pillars.
There are five internal groups: the pillar working groups, a disability thematic group and a migrant thematic group.
…and there are two members of staff.
All the member groups have one thing in common: they all wish to improve the quality of life, for the people who live, work, study and visit Dublin City. And the PPN is a place where they try to do this.
Please get in touch, if you would like more information about the core work, if you would like to share anything in our weekly Bulletin or if you have any general suggestions or recommendations.
We look forward to hearing from you.
