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Newsletter October 2019

THE LATEST NEWS FROM FINGAL VOLUNTEER CENTRE

Newsletter October 2019

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:

 

  • Outreach programme: If you’re interested in meeting personally one member of our team please come over to our Open Drop-in Sessions or arrange for an appointment (see below);
  • The Fingal Volunteer Centre has a new website, check the link below;
  • Event Volunteers project: Join us at one of our last event for 2019: the Festival of Fire in Blanchardstown;
  • Quarterly Volunteer Raffle: there’ll be a raffle every 3 months open to all active volunteers. You can enter the raffle logging your actual volunteer hours online or letting us know you volunteered (see below). Ah the price? a 25€ Dunnes Voucher! The next deadline: the 31st of December 2019.
  • Volunteer Opportunities: the latest volunteer opportunities available on I-VOL. Please remember to check their location and time frame before applying.

OUTREACH PROGRAMME

 

You can come and meet a member of our team to discuss your volunteering options in one of the Fingal Libraries.

 

Open Drop-in Sessions:

Balbriggan:          Tues 22nd Oct, 3.30pm-5pm
Blanchardstown:  Weds 23rd Oct, 3.30pm-5pm
Garristown:          Mon 21st Oct, 6pm-7.30pm
Swords:               Thurs 24th  Oct, 3.30pm-5pm

For Appointments please telephone 01 8991921 or email chiara@volunteerfingal.ie

Appointments must be made or cancelled at least 24 hours in advance.

The Fingal Volunteer Centre has a brand new website with more articles, news and pictures for you. Here is the direct link or click on the Swirl above to check it out: https://volunteerfingal.ie/

Event Volunteers provide a mobile event and information service to those attending public events. As a source of information about the event, local facilities and transport links, Event Volunteers role is to make sure visitors to an event have all the information they need to enjoy their time.

EventVolunteers is a joint project of Fingal Volunteer Centre and Volunteer Ireland and covers the majority of free, social or community events in Fingal County and Dublin City County.

 

For more info and discover how to apply please click on the following link:

 

Event Volunteers- Fingal Festival of Fire (Blanchardstown)

 

 

QUARTERLY VOLUNTEER RAFFLE

 

 

At the end of every quarter (31st March, 30th June, 30th September and 31st December) there’ll be a raffle here in Fingal Volunteer Centre. To get your raffle ticket (or better to get your name in the raffle box…) you simply need to record your effective volunteer hours in 2019.

 

 

There are various ways to record your hours:

 

  •  reply to this email and let me know who you volunteered with and in which role;
  •  reply to our emails when we ask you if you got started in volunteering or not;
  •  log into your own Volunteer Profile and record your hours there (See on the right);
  • give us a call and share your volunteering experience with us;

 

If your name is selected you’ll be then contacted by myself or a colleague of mine to confirm your address (we post the voucher directly to your place).

 

Trying to be fair towards everybody, each given volunteer can win the raffle only once per year.

 

Sharing your volunteer hours allow us to keep up to date records and data on volunteering in our wide, friendly and altruistic region.

 

Next Deadline is 31st December 2019.

VOLUNTEER PROFILE

 

Have you been volunteering?

In 2018 Fingal Volunteers contributed with almost 20.000 volunteer hours!!

 

That’s a lot and it’s all because of you and your proactiveness in volunteering. Well done to all 2018 volunteers!!

 

To support you as best as we can It’d pivotal for us to know if you got placed with the organizations you applied to on I-VOL or what.

 

Having said so, if you register your volunteer hours you’ll automatically enter the Quarterly Volunteer Raffle (See on the left)

 

Wait no more…and record your hours:

 

Volunteer profile

ADMINISTRATIVE/OFFICE WORK

 

Garda Vetting Volunteer with Le Cheile Social Group (Dublin 15)

 

 

ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT 

 

Evening Service Volunteer with Homeless with Mendicity Institution (Dublin 8)

 

 

ADVOCACY 

 

Outreach and Awareness Raising Volunteer with Trocaire (Countrywide)

 

 

ANIMAL FOSTERING 

 

Cat Adoption Day Volunteer with Drogheda Animal Rescue (Drogheda and Balbriggan)

 

 

ARTS

 

Sewing Class Assistant with Ozanam House Community Resource Centre (Dublin 1)

 

 

BEFRIENDING/ MENTORING


Social Activities Volunteer with  Caring & Sharing Association (Countywide)

 

 

CATERING

 

Kitchen Assistant in a Creche with Finglas Childcare Ltd (Dublin 11)

 

Breakfast Club Team Member with Urban Soul (Dublin 1)

 

 

COMMITTEE/ BOARD WORK/ MANAGEMENT

 

Board Member of National Charity with Chronic Pain Ireland (Dublin 7)

 

Board Member of National Charity (Marketing & Communications) with Chronic Pain Ireland (Dublin 7)

 

 

COMPUTERS, TECHNOLOGY AND THE INTERNET

 

Online Person Thursday with Fledgling Arts Collective Central (from home)

 

 

CONSERVATION/ GARDENING

 

Tree Plantation Coordinator with  The Afforestation Project (Dublin county)

 

 

COUNSELLING/ LISTENING

 

Counsellor with ARC Cancer Support Centres (Dublin city)

 

 

DISASTER/ EMERGENCY SERVICES

 

Reservist with Reserve Defence Forces (Nationwide)

 

 

DRIVING/ ACCOMPANYING

 

Volunteer Driver – Meals on Wheels with  Northside Home Care Services (Dublin 5, 7 and 15)

 

 

EVENTS AND STEWARDING

 

Event Volunteers- Fingal Festival of Fire (Blanchardstown)

 

Volunteer Steward with Loving and Affectionate Family (Dublin 15)

 

 

FINANCE/ ACCOUNTANCY 

 

Accountant with Intercultural Language Service (Dublin 3)

 

 

FIRST AID 

 

 

First Aider with St. John Ambulance Ireland (Dublin county)

 

 

LANGUAGES/ TRANSLATING

 

Somali Interpreter (no experience req’d) with Crosscare (Dublin 1)

 

 

MARKETING/PR/MEDIA/JOURNALISM

 

Help Us Raise Awareness with Irish Haemochromatosis Association (Dublin 7)

 

 

PRACTICAL/ DIY/ FARMING

 

Clean-up volunteer with Castlecurragh Residents Association (Dublin 15) 

 

Canal Clean-Up Volunteer with Royal Canal Clean-Up Group – Fingal (Castleknock)

 

Balbriggan Tidy Towns Volunteer (Balbriggan)

 

Swords Tidy Towns Volunteer (Swords)

 

Handcare with St Francis Hospice Dublin (Dublin 15)

 

 

SHOPS/RETAIL

 

Volunteer Sales assistant with NCBI Retail (Skerries)

 

Shop Assistant with Enable Ireland Retail and Fundraising (Dublin city various locations)

 

Shop assistant with Friends of Autism/ADHD Ltd (Balbriggan and Skerries) 

 

Vincent’s Charity Shop Volunteer with Society of St. Vincent de Paul (Balbriggan)

 

 

SHORT TERM/ SEASONAL/ ONCE OFF

 

Beach Cleaning Events and other activities with Clean Coasts (Dublin county)

 

 

SPECIALIST/ TECHNICAL SUPPORT

 

Sound Engineer with African Community Radio Ireland (Dublin 15)

 

 

SUPPORT AND KEY WORKING

 

Arch Club Volunteer with Portmarnock Integrated Arch Club (Portmarnock)

 

 

TEACHING/ TUTORING/ SUPPORTING LEARNING

 

Conversation Tutors (Coolmine) with Failte Isteach (Dublin 15)

 

Conversation Tutors (Tyrrelstown) with Failte Isteach (Dublin 15)

 

Professional Makeup & Skincare Expert with Look Good Feel Better (Countrywide)

 

 

 

UNDER 18 

 

Youth Advisory Panel Member with Jigsaw (Dublin 15)

 

‘Getting Started’ Computer Tutor with Age Action (Countywide)

 

Charity Shop Volunteer Sales Assistant with Irish Cancer Society (Swords)

 

First Aid Volunteer with Irish Red Cross – Dublin 15 (Fingal)

 

Volunteer Sales assistant with NCBI Retail (Skerries)

 

 

YOUTH WORK

 

Youth Volunteer with Foroige- Blanchardstown  (Dublin 15)

 

Youth Club Leader Foróige (Fingal wide)

 

Activity Assistant with Remember Us (Balbriggan)

 

 

Our VISION is for a vibrant Irish society where every person feels connected to their community through active participation in voluntary activities.

Our MISSION is to promote the value of volunteering and and increase the range and quality of volunteering in Ireland.

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