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Proud to Support The Anchorage Community Centre

stcdublin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:38:50 +0000

Be sure to have a look at THIS ARTICLE on a website for Volunteer Centres Ireland. It profiles a community centre in Ringsend called The Anchorage that Serve the City have been very involved with over the last two years. Not only have we partnered with Habitat for Humanity to send groups of their volunteers there, but we also continue to have a few of our own Serve the City volunteers going back on a regular basis to help with the construction of the new community cafe. STC considers it a huge privilege to be counted as one of the many charity and corporate groups to have invested time and energy in the development of the centre.

Focusing their vision on the theme of “HOPE,” The Anchorage offer a creche and kids’ clubs to the surrounding community. They also offer birds and plants for sale to the community with 100% of the proceeds going to support humanitarian projects in the developing world. With the completion of the cafe in The Anchorage, space will be offered to the community for a comfortable place to sit and chat over an espresso (particularly useful to parents with kids in the creche), to host community meetings and other gatherings, as well as to provide computers with internet access. A family resource/counseling centre is also in the works for future development.

Though it’s in a position to apply for a lot of funding from the government, The Anchorage has opted to rely on a wide variety of volunteer sources instead. As a result, there are a lot of individuals, businesses, and other organisations across Dublin with a vested interest in the success and effectivenes of the centre because of their own volunteer efforts there.

Serve the City have high hopes that the example of The Anchorage will encourage and inspire many other community centres across Dublin (and the rest of Ireland!) to offer up their own development as opportunities for people to actively engage in volunteering.

The Anchorage Community Cafe

EBS Community Fund

stcdublin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:09:47 +0000

We’d like to extend a BIG ‘THANK YOU!’ to Paul, one of our loyal volunteers, for submitting an application for a community grant through EBS on behalf of Serve the City. We were informed recently by EBS that Serve the City are indeed one of the community groups who will be awarded a portion of the fund! 100% of the fund money will go towards the purchase of materials and supplies in our efforts to serve people in the community. Again, thanks to Paul and thanks so much to businesses like EBS who are committed to investing in their communities!

Serve Days of Summer 2010

stcdublin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:09:54 +0000

Plans are well on their way for this summer’s service event, which will be happening from Monday the 12th of July on through Saturday the 17th. Last summer, we learned that extending the service project hours into the evening was helpful to our Dublin volunteers who wanted to come out to serve after their work hours and/or on Saturday. So once again, this year we’ll be scheduling the service projects/opportunities to happen every weekday evening (7-10ish) in addition to the 10am-4pm time slots during the day. We’ll also be joined again this year by at least three volunteer teams from various parts of America.

During our week-long summer events over the last several years, Serve the City volunteers have helped paint local schools, and do gardening and other DIY projects for local people in need. This year, we’ll be looking for the same types of opportunities. If you know of someone in need who could benefit from a group of sensitive and compassionate volunteers, please let us know by filling out the brief form in the ‘tell us a need‘ section of this site.

And we hope you’ll be able to join us this summer for that week-long intensive opportunity to serve your city and help make Dublin a better place to live, one kind act at a time!

Third Saturday SERVE Day

stcdublin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:23:21 +0000

This Saturday morning, 20 February, a team of Serve the City volunteers will meet again in the Walkinstown McCafe on Kylemore Rd. for 9.30. After a cup of coffee (or 3), we’ll head over to finish painting in a home in Crumlin. And if we have the extra volunteers, we’ll split the team to begin painting another woman’s kitchen around the corner. So if you’re looking for an opportunity to serve people in need, look no further than Serve the City! Click the ‘CONTACT‘ tab or the ‘VOLUNTEER‘ tab above and let us know if you’d like to serve your city this weekend!

Successful Camino/TAPAS Night

stcdublin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:44:59 +0000

Last night, our coordinating team and a few volunteers enjoyed meeting about 50 university students at an event to promote a trip to the Camino Santiago in Spain this summer. The group sponsoring the Camino trip have kindly offered to promote Serve the City and to also use the ‘pilgrimage’ as an opportunity to raise some much needed funds for our volunteering efforts with Serve the City.

The basement of Doyles’ Pub on College Street served as a perfect venue for the Spanish tapas-themed promotional event. During the course of the evening, information about the Camino Santiago was given and our own Alan McElwee was granted the opportunity to explain the vision of Serve the City to the group of students. Currently we are in discussions with the trip’s organizers to have their Camino participants join Serve the City for a ‘Third Saturday Service Day’ in April. We look forward to having university students involved in serving their city!