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National Day of Volunteering

stcdublin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:53:01 +0000

National Day of Volunteering happens here in Ireland on Friday, 1 October, and we want to encourage you to find an opportunity to participate in any way you can. Be sure to visit the good folks at Volunteer Centres Ireland to find ways that you can get in on the action. (CLICK HERE to see all of the registered projects in your area.) While Serve the City won’t have anything happening on that day in particular, we are continuing our Third Saturday S3RVE Days on the 18th of September and the 16th of October.

In the lead up to National Day of Volunteering, there will be a Volunteer Fair in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar on Sunday the 26th, from 1-5pm. Serve the City will have a display table, so come on down to see us and discover other ways of volunteering your time and energy to good causes across the city!

Sign Up for our Monthly Email Alert

stcdublin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:26:59 +0000

Now you can sign up to receive our monthly email alerts and find out about opportunities to serve. Just CLICK HERE and fill in your information. Then click “subscribe” at the bottom and voila! – you’ll stay up-to-date on our monthly community service days.

Summer 2010 Report: Serve Days of Summer

stcdublin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:54:51 +0000

During the second week of July (12-17), we held our annual “Serve Days of Summer” initiative. Over the course of 6 days, we deployed some 40+ volunteers to serve on 11 different service projects across the city. We were joined by two small visiting teams from the U.S.

At St. Augustines school in Blackrock, we painted the interior of one of the dorm houses while some of our volunteers assisted the Shanganagh Community Development Project with their summer kids’ club. The rest of our volunteers were scattered across Dublin throughout the week, gardening and painting in areas like Crumlin, Sheriff Street, Beggar’s Bush, and Drumcondra.

We’re grateful for the partnerships with other organizations who helped us find significant opportunities to serve, as well as the volunteers to get the work done. Here are just a few:

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St. Augustine’s School
Volunteer Centres Ireland
Shanganagh Summer Proejct

Summer 2010 Report: Urban Soul

stcdublin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:09:15 +0000

It was a busy summer for Serve the City as we embraced more opportunities than ever before to serve our city!

In early July, we joined forces with a number of youth works organizations around Dublin for this year’s Urban Soul event. About 120 young people (14-18 yrs old) were sent out across the city to serve on 14 different service projects, from painting and cleaning in schools to gardening for elderly residents to painting and sorting clothes in homeless shelters. Urban Soul is a phenomenal initiative driven by a number of strategic partnerships with churches, schools, local authorities, and organisations such as Catholic Youth Care, ACET, Lourdes Daycare Centre, Mothers’ Union, and many others. Serve the City count it a valuable privilege to be involved with Urban Soul!

Click on the “zone” links below to see interactive Google maps of the general areas in which Urban Soul were serving. Also below is an RTE news clip about Urban Soul.

No THIRD Saturday SERVE Day in June

stcdublin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:45:57 +0000

Due to a lot of busyness and developments for Serve the City, there will be no official Third Saturday SERVE Day for the month of June. However, we’re following up on a number of referrals for service opportunities to take on during our week-long ‘SERVE DAYS OF SUMMER,’ the 12th-17th of July. Having a break in June will allow us to better prepare for that week.

We’ll be hosting a few small visiting teams from abroad during that week during the daytime, but we are also planning to extend those service projects into the evening for our local volunteers who will not be able to get away from their day jobs. If you are interested in joining us during our ‘SERVE DAYS OF SUMMER’ week, please let us know by clicking on the ‘Contact Us’ or ‘Volunteer’ tab above!