PPN Updates
What a busy week for Dublin City PPN!
Arts, Culture, Leisure and Recreation SPC reps, Adekunle Gomez and Ciarán Taylor met Ruth for a picnic in the park last Friday, to talk about the Arts Linkage Group. The Arts linkage group will be looking at how art fits into the Dublin City Development Plan, and will be thinking about submissions to this process shortly.
The Disability Thematic Group met for its monthly meeting on Monday night, and Antonia Martin of Dublin City Council came to make a presentation to the group and to answer questions.
The PPN Secretariat met Wednesday night for its monthly meeting, and one topic for discussion was how to best achieve the objectives set out in the 2021 Work Plan. All nine members of the Secretariat now all have additional roles and responsibilities, in addition to their Secretariat duty, and the second part of 2021 should be exciting!
Next Monday, the Planning and Urban Form SPC Linkage group will meet on Google Meet, at 7.00pm Please get in touch if you would like to attend this meeting. The two SPC representatives are Robbie Sinnott and Anna Devlin.
Meanwhile, we were amazed by the response to the offer of FREE places on the Big, Better, Bolder fundraising programme. The PPN agreed to cover the costs for four people to attend the programme, but due to such high interest, agreed to cover the costs for 8 people.
The 8 people were chosen randomly and have been informed.
Fundraising is clearly an area of high interest from our member groups, and as such we will look into further fundraising training opportunities in our autumn series of training sessions. Watch this space!
In addition, PPN stakeholders are invited to a webinar specifically for PPNs on the recently launched “Our Rural Future – Rural Development Policy 2021 – 2025”. The webinar will be attended by Minister of State, Joe O’Brien TD. There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the presentation and you can access the webinar here.
News from the wider PPN
Finglas Maypole Festival, The Community Music Collective and the Meeting Place club would like to invite you to a Midsummers’ Celebration on Thursday 24 June, from 5.00pm onwards at Prospect Hill. There will be outdoor music, theatre and readings and everything will comply with Covid 19 restrictions.
Minister O’Gorman invites applications to the Communities Integration Fund 2021. Grants of up to €5,000 will be allocated to successful organisations to support integration initiatives and you can find out more about the fund here.
Is your community interested in local solutions to local housing needs? Clan Credo is hosting an online event, to explore opportunities for Community-Led housing in Ireland, on Wednesday 23 June from 7.00pm – 8.00pm Find out more about the event here.
Age Friendly’s newsletter can be read online here.
Member group, An Cosán, would like to share updates about the wide range of programmes across their Adult and Community Education provision and you are invited to attend one of their Friday morning Information Sessions here.
You can read or sign up to Crumlin Community CleanUp’s Newsletter *Bloomin Crumlin* here.
The Anti-Racism Committee’s Public Consultation is open until 14 July. You can find out more about the committee’s consultation process here. You can make a submission as an individual, as a representative from your organisation, or as part of your work with the PPN. If you are submitting as a member of the PPN, please communicate with your linkage groups and/or reps. If you would like to make a submission as an entire PPN, please get in touch, and we can try and do this.
If you would like to volunteer, or would like to find volunteers for your organisation, you can contact Dublin City Volunteer Centre for information, support, resources, and training, and you can find out more about DCVC here.
Please follow Dublin City PPN on Facebook or Twitter or please reply to this email if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. You can read previous PPN Bulletins here. Strength in using common structure.
