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THE LATEST NEWS FROM FINGAL VOLUNTEER CENTRE Newsletter August 2021 Hi, we hope you’re keeping well. Here is our monthly newsletter filled with News, updates and a list of recent volunteer opportunities. Please scroll down to see their role descriptions and remember there are many more on I-VOL if the listed ones are not your cup of tea. Latest news from Fingal Volunteer Centre:
Beach Clean-Up in Malahide in September During Dublin Community Clean up week, Fingal Volunteer Centre will join Malahide Tidy Towns to clean up the beautiful beach in Malahide and collect as much litter as possible! It’s incredible the amount of plastic and litter we find on our shores and this is our chance to give our contribution to make it better and cleaner.
One clean up won’t solve the issue, but will definitely be a first step towards a greener environment. Would you like to join us?
You might share it with your family, colleagues and friends too. The more the merrier! EVENT: Malahide beach clean up MEETING POINT: Malahide Beach car park TIME: 10:30 am – 12:30pm MORE INFO and LINK TO REGISTER: Beach clean up in Malahide Volunteer Ireland Awards 2021 Nominations are now open!
Every autumn people from all over Ireland nominate their neighbors, family, friends, colleagues and community supporters for the chance to win a Volunteer Ireland Award. This year, nominations open on August 17th 2021 and close on October 10th 2021. To nominate an individual volunteer, groups of volunteers and/or a volunteer manager, please do so here:
Volunteer Ireland Awards- Nominate a volunteer or a Volunteer manager VOLUNTEER TESTIMONIALS
Have you been volunteering? Become a Volunteer Testimonial!
In Fingal Volunteer Centre we are always interested in hearing from volunteers and capturing the essence of volunteering by getting feedback about their volunteer experience. We’ve created a Volunteer Testimonials page to capture their volunteer story and experience. If you’ve been volunteering and you’d like to tell your story please reply back to this email and we’ll be in touch with you or email Chiara at chiara@volunteerfingal.ie
We look forward to your volunteer stories!
COVID-19 Related Volunteer Opportunities 1) ***Letter Appeal*** Kasi – Covid 19 with KASI-Killarney Asylum Seeker Initiative (From home)
2) Stay Connected Letter Request: Templemore Day Care Centre with Templemore Community Care Services (From home)
3) Letters to Nursing Home- Keeping spirits up! with Sligo (Mowlam) Nursing Home (From home) 6) COVID-19: ***LETTER REQUEST *** to Brymore House, Howth with Fingal Volunteer Centre (From home)
7) COVID-19: ***LETTER REQUEST *** to Clearbrook Nursing Home, Finglas with Fingal Volunteer Centre (From home)
8) COVID-19: ***LETTER REQUEST *** to St. Patrick’s Care Centre Baldoyle with Fingal Volunteer Centre (From home)
9) COVID-19: ***LETTER REQUEST *** to Fingal House Nursing Home -Swords with Fingal Volunteer Centre (From home) Local Clean up Days 1) Beach Clean-Up in Malahide! with Fingal Volunteer Centre:Sat 18th Sept (Malahide)
2) Local Park and Beach Clean with Baldoyle Tidy Towns: Monthly (Baldoyle)
3) Canal Clean-Up Volunteer (Castleknock) with Royal Canal Clean-Up Group – Fingal: Monthly (Castleknock)
4) Balbriggan Tidy Towns Volunteer with Balbriggan Tidy Towns: Weekly (Balbriggan)
5) Swords Tidy Towns Volunteer with Swords Tidy Towns: Weekly (Swords) General Long term Volunteer Opportunities 1) Befriender Visitation Programme with Friends of the Elderly Ireland (county Dublin)
2) Activities Facilitator with Praxis Care (Dublin 15)
3) Communications Volunteer with PSPA Ireland (From home)
4) Youth Advisory Panel Member with Jigsaw (North Fingal) (OPEN TO UNDER 18!) 5) Sea Scout Leader with 1st Port of Dublin Sea Scouts (Ringsend- Dublin 4)
6) Charity Shop Volunteer Sales Assistant with Irish Cancer Society (Swords) (OPEN TO UNDER 18!) 10) Support and Self Care Group Facilitator with Aware (From home)
11) Cycling Without Age Pilot with Fingal County Council Sports Office (County Fingal) Please bear in mind that we’re constantly working with not profit and charity organisations and there will be more roles on I-VOL in the coming weeks.
New roles are added to our database on a regular basis and you may also view them yourself on I-VOL before you receive our next newsletter. We are working from home so to cover all applications and registrations. Our monthly Outreach programme in local libraries has been postponed until further notice. Your safety and limiting the spread of the Coronavirus being the main priority, we continue to encourage you to adhere to HSE instructions on how best to avoid COVID-19, both in the work environment and at home. We’ve partnered up with several nursing homes, both in county Dublin and county Fingal, for our Fingal Letter Campaign.
The idea is to recruit as many volunteeers as possible willing to post letters, drawings, poems or whatever you can think of, to the residents of the nursing homes.
Would you like to take part in this project?
You might even decide to involve your small ones and ask them to be creative and prepare a drawing or something!
Great news: there won’t be any need to add a stamp on your letters since An Post agreed in sending them for free if addressed to nursing homes!
To read more and take part please click here:
VOLUNTEER HOURS Please let us know if you’ve been volunteering during this Covid-19 crisis and how was your experience. We’d love to learn more about your involvement and, maybe, collect your feedback and stories.
If you’ve been volunteering please click here to access your volunteer profile and register your volunteering hours and stories: FACEBOOK LIKES I know, not so many people use Facebook nowadays but we do. And we find it brilliant to share news, new volunteer opportunities, promote events and share videos/pictures.
If you’re still an ‘aficionados’ and like to browse Facebook and receive our updates, why don’t you give us a Like?! We’d love to count you among our many…FB friends!
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FINGAL COMMUNITY RESPONSE
Need a grocery order collected or prescription picked up? Feeling vulnerable & isolated? Or just want to talk. The Fingal Community Response are here to help. Call any day 8am to 8pm INFO FOR VOLUNTEERS
Before considering volunteering ask yourself – Am I well enough to volunteer? Your safety and limiting the spread of the coronavirus being the main priority, Volunteer Centres continue to encourage you to adhere to HSE instructions on how best to avoid COVID-19, both in the work environment and at home. |
