Living and Learning Communities Project

Living and Learning Communities Project

The Living and Learning Community Training Project is a unique opportunity for all community groups to receive professional training in media literacy and production.  There is a further exciting chance for groups to receive further intensive training through which they produce audio and/or film pieces conveying a message of their choosing. 

Through a series of workshops delivered via blended learning (online and in-person), participants will learn how to do the following: 

  • Tell your own story: Ensuring your perspectives are seen & heard as you want them to be 
  • Gain Media Skills: helping groups in doing future media projects (from Oral History to YouTube videos) 
  • Reflect & Distil: reflect on what you do as a community, and why you do it. 
  • Build skills for the future: 
    • Getting people on the same page 
    • Rebuilding Momentum 
    • Reframing your story 
    • Communicating what you do and why – a vital skill for completing funding applications, mobilising volunteers, and fundraising 

How to get involved? 

Proposals to participate in this project are now invited from community groups for support through this Notice of Interest Form. Download the form here 

For this notice of interest, groups will identify one potential story they want to tell – it could be the story of the group or of an initiative or a one-off event. Picking which story or which aspect of your bigger story to tell can be a real challenge. Groups can often be involved in many different initiatives – Here are some questions to get your group thinking when weighing up different possible stories before you complete this simple form: 

  • Catalyst: Was there a “Eureka” moment/“This can’t go on”? 
  • Impact: Is there any consequences of this happening? 
  • Risk: Is there any consequences of it not happening? 
  • Transformation: Are we in a very different place than we were once? Where was that place? 
  • Hope: Are we going to a very different place than we are now? Where will that be? 
  • Time: Is there something that must be done by a particular time? 
  • Context: What’s the Backdrop? Where does all this come together?

And remember it doesn’t have to be hugely dramatic. A simple competition about flower boxes can be about pride of place, and reputation, and building community. 

Closing date for Expression of interest Tuesday 9th of March  If you would like to learn more about this project please contact Monica McKenna at mmckenna@cldc.ie or at 0871121396. 

 

 

Covid 19 Emergency Fund

The COVID-19 Emergency Fund is funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development and administered by the Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs) in each Local Authority area.

The  2nd round of the COVID-19 Emergency Fund and has funding of €49,351. The fund is available to Community and Voluntary groups for small scale projects.

There are two categories for applications:

  1. Small scale grant of €1,000 or less. (Total fund available is €15,000 i.e. a maximum of 15 projects will be awarded under this category of funding).
  2. Grant in excess of €1,000 (Total fund available is €35,000). One flagship project will be allocated to the value of €10,000.

Applications should be made to Clare LCDC by close of business on Friday 7th February 2021.

Click here for further details and an application form

 

Community Education Grants Scheme 2021

Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board’s Further Education and Training Division invites applications for funding under its Community Education Grants Scheme 2021. The purpose of this scheme is to assist community and voluntary groups to deliver a range of educational activities for disadvantaged adults within their own communities in Clare.
Who Can Apply? Community and voluntary groups who are involved in the provision of educational activities for specified adult target groups. The grants provided are to enable disadvantaged adults to avail of community education at minimal or no cost. Therefore, priority will be given to groups in disadvantaged areas, projects aimed at specially disadvantaged groups, educational activities that lead to progression of the individual and the group, and also education that has national accreditation. Activities exclusively involving children and school-going teenagers are
ineligible under this scheme.
Funding: Funding will be made available in the form of tuition hours and tutors will be paid directly by Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. Groups are required to support the online registration of learners through FETCHcourses.ie, to include progression options for learners and course outline forms for each programme. Funding is dependent on approval by SOLAS to Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board.
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Friday 4th December 2020.
Download a copy of the application here
Contact Breda O’ Driscoll for further information.
M: +353 (087) 4137189 DDI: +353 (0)65 6843732
Collective Action in an Era of Social Distancing- CWI Report

Collective Action in an Era of Social Distancing- CWI Report

 
 
 
The COVID-19 crisis and the challenges it has posed has been unprecedented. The restrictions imposed on communities and society as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for communities already marginalised by poverty, inequality and social exclusion.
 

The response to COVID has starkly highlighted the importance of the community development, local development and voluntary sectors. The Community Call has resulted in a much-needed and widely lauded response from people working on a voluntary basis to provide supports to people and communities made vulnerable by the pandemic. Starting where people are at, a universally acknowledged principle of community work, community workers have been to the forefront of dealing with complex needs within the most marginalised communities. While these are receiving less attention, they are essential and underpinning of the most impactful local responses.In order to gather some of these responses, Community Work Ireland invited community workers and community development and local development organisations to contribute to a process of collating and highlighting some of the work that is being undertaken all around the country. It is important to note that this collation is not definitive but rather reflective of responses.

View a copy of the report here

Implications of COVID-19 for Traveller & Roma transfer to and progression within Higher Education

Implications of COVID-19 for Traveller & Roma transfer to and progression within Higher Education

The Forum was organised by Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre and the National Traveller Women’s
Forum, in response to urgent COVID-19 concerns being expressed by Traveller and Roma students and parents and adult learners hoping to continue or commence third level education in Sept 2020. It consisted of opening and closing plenaries and six facilitated breakout sessions which provided opportunities for all to express their views. Read the full report here