This newsletter contains information on:

• Don’t miss out: Volunteer Expo 2026 (all areas)
• May focus on: Outdoor Volunteer Roles
• Other New Volunteering Opportunities
• Community Volunteers
• Do you follow our Facebook page yet?
• Volunteer Centre Pop-up at a library near you

Don’t miss out: Volunteer Expo 2026 (all areas)

Following the National Volunteering Week 2026 theme, “From Every Corner, For Every Cause” we are bringing together a wide range of national charities and local community groups for Volunteer Expo 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Saturday, 23rd May.

Organisations attending include 92.5 Phoenix FM, ALONE Fingal, Blanchardstown Centre for Independent Living(BCIL), Children4WorldChildren (C4WC), Community First Responder (CFR) groups, Foróige, Home Start Blanchardstown, Irish Cancer Society, Irish Girl Guides, Malahide Tidy Towns, Mental Health Ireland, RNLI, Special Olympics Ireland, Ukrainian Volunteers of Ireland, local parkrun groups, and many more.

Representing communities across Fingal and North Dublin, all of these organisations are seeking volunteers like you. This is a great opportunity to meet organisations face-to-face, ask questions, and discover the many ways you can get involved.

Event details:
 Date: Saturday, 23rd May
Time:12 to 3 pm
Location: Crowne Plaza Blanchardstown (Directly by the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre with free parking and Bus access)

Additionally, visitors can:

• Learn and practice CPR with a Community First Responders group
• Discover the ‘Message in a Bottle’ project, aimed at making medical information easily accessible in case of emergency at home
• Tune into an ‘Outside Broadcast’ by 92.5 Phoenix FM Community Radio in Dublin 15, featuring interviews with volunteers and organisations.

Check out our website for more details: Volunteer Expo 2026

Let’s come together to celebrate volunteering and inspire even more people to get involved!

Make a day of it: Enjoy some shopping or catch a movie, then drop by the expo. Bring your friends, family, and neighbours—the more, the merrier!

May focus on: Outdoor Volunteer Roles 

There are a variety of volunteers roles that make being outdoors more enjoyable and meaningful. It is a fantastic way to meet new people, stay active, and make a positive difference in the lives of people within the community.

Whether you are passionate about the environment, enjoy staying active, or simply love being outdoors, there is a volunteer role:

 Tidy Towns Projects Keep streets, parks, and your local spaces clean and beautiful
 Community Garden initiatives bring people together and promote sustainability
 Local sports activities where you can help events run smoothly and support teams in many ways
 Beach and canal clean-ups initiatives protect our local ecosystems

Make sure to read the role in detail. Some roles allow you to directly show up on the day, but most roles require pre-registrations, so the organiser can know how many people to expect on the day.

Ready to roll up your sleeves and get started?

Roles supporting local Tidy Towns:

• Tidy Towns Volunteer- Blanchardstown with Blanchardstown Village Tidy Towns (Dublin 15)
• Tidy Towns Volunteer Swords with Swords Tidy Towns (Swords)

Community Garden and other gardening roles:

• Community Garden Volunteers- Skerries with Skerries Community Garden (Skerries)
• Organic Garden Volunteer Laytown with Sonairte – Fingal (Laytown)
• Care & Repair Gardening Volunteer’s with Age Action (Dublin wide)
• Community Garden Volunteer in Ballymun with Global Action Plan (Ballymun)
• Gardening Mentor- Castleknock with Spina Bifida Hydrocephalous Castleknock (Dublin 15)
• Volunteer Gardener/ Caretaker Swords with Down Syndrome Centre- Swords (Swords)

Local sports activities: 

• Marshal/ Steward Hartstown with Hartstown parkrun (Dublin 15)
• Marshal/ Steward Swords with Rivervalley Junior parkrun (Swords)
• Volunteer Tennis Coach Swords with Swords Women’s Shed (Swords)
• Fitness Instructor – parkHIIT with parkHIIT (North Dublin)
• Marshal/ Steward Malahide with Malahide parkrun (Malahide)
• Basketball Coaching Support Volunteer Donabate with Donabate Portrane Special Olympics Sports Club (Donabate)
• Marshal/ Steward-Balbriggan with Ardgillan parkrun (Balbriggan)

Beach and canal clean-ups roles:

• Monthly Royal Canal Clean Up – 2nd Saturday every month. (D1, D7 & D15) with Royal Canal Clean-Up Group (Dublin 15, Dublin 7 and Dublin 1)
• Beach Cleaning Events and other activities with Clean Coasts (Nationwide)
• Volunteer helpers for monthly beach Clean Up with Bull Island Action Group (Bull Island, Dublin 3)

Other New Volunteering Opportunities

Here are some new opportunities that have been posted this month on I-VOL:

• Volunteer Driver Malahide with Caring and Sharing Association (CASA) (Malahide)
• Toy Swap Event Helper- 9th July Balbriggan with The Toy Library Fingal (Balbriggan)
• Wellbeing Activities Volunteer (Older Adults) Rush with Mowlam Nursing Home Rush (Rush)
• Volunteer Hairdresser / Barber (Various Locations around the country) with Depaul (Dublin wide)
• Engagement & Social Skills (Various Locations around the country)
  with Depaul (Nation wide)
• Volunteer Research Participant (Aged 18+) with Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (Dublin city centre)
• Communications Specialist (Marketing, PRO & Social media) Rush & Remote with Rush Multipurpose Youth Facility CLG (Rush & Remote)
• Volunteer Administrative Assistant (Remote) with Babywearing Ireland (Remote)
• Board/ Committee Member- Remote & Portmarnock with National Federation of Arch Clubs (Portmarnock & Remote)
• Assistant Treasurer (Remote) with Babywearing Ireland (Remote)
• Volunteer Treasurer (Remote) with Babywearing Ireland (Remote)

Community Volunteers 

Our Community Volunteer programme is seeing fantastic engagement from our volunteers. A new text alert system now notifies Community Volunteers as soon as an event opens for registration, increasing awareness and giving volunteers the chance to sign up for events they are genuinely interested in supporting.

This month, volunteers will support several exciting events, including Baldoyle Bay Biosphere, Volunteer Expo 2026, and the Blanchardstown Brass Band’s 200th anniversary celebrations.

June begins with the Safer Together Summer Festival in Millennium Park, Dublin 15, on 6th June. Volunteers will help manage free game booths and support the Colour Run. On 14th June, they will support the Skerries Wild Bee Festival. We currently have enough volunteers for these events.

Later in the month, volunteers will assist Malahide Tidy Towns at two major Malahide Castle concerts: Katy Perry on 24th June and Calvin Harris on 28th June.(we still need volunteers for both concerts)

On the 4th and 5th of July, one of our largest volunteer-supported events, Flavours of Fingal, will take place in Donabate. It is a fantastic community event and a great opportunity to volunteer at one of Fingal’s most popular festivals. Registration just opened, sign up your shift today.

You can register your interest through your Community Volunteers profile or contact Ruth at info@volunteerfingal.ie if you would like to get involved.

Do you follow us on Facebook yet?  

Have you checked out our newly renamed Facebook page, Volunteer Fingal?

We regularly share a wide range of updates, including upcoming events, Volunteer Centre pop-ups at libraries across Fingal, photos from Community Volunteers events that we support, highlights from events we attend in the community, and much more.

Follow us on Facebook to stay up to date with everything happening in the world of volunteering in Fingal — while also helping us grow our visibility and reach within the community. We need more followers to be visible!!

We would love to hear from you if social media is your thing…
We need you!!! Help us manage our social media channels, register your interest here: Social Media Manager- Blanchardstown & Remote

Volunteer Centre Pop-up at a library near you 

Looking for something different?

Meet us at a library near you across Fingal to chat about your interests and receive guidance on suitable volunteer roles. Our Volunteer Centre Pop-ups provide a great opportunity to meet a member of our team in person, ask questions about volunteering, and receive personalised advice to help shape and support your volunteering journey.

No appointment is needed—just drop in and take the first step towards finding your ideal volunteer role!

Check out our website for the schedule of Pop-Ups happening this month and find one near you.