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Neighbourhood Network

Neighbourhood Network creates an opportunity for neighbours to connect and work together to support, strengthen and celebrate their communities
Irish Men's Shed

Provide a space in your community where men can find meaning, friendship and belonging
Siel Bleu

Through exercise, increase the independence and quality of life of older people in your community
Plastic Free 4 Kids

Empower the kids in your primary school to become plastic free ambassadors in your local community.
FIRST® LEGO® League Discover (IRL/UK)

Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) programme in your school or community for 4-6 year-olds.
Teachmeet Ireland

Educators coming together to share passion and inspire excellence
Conscious Cup Communities

Reducing coffee cup waste by engaging businesses
FIRST® LEGO® League Explore - Ireland

FIRST® LEGO® League Explore is a global STEM and robotics programme for girls and boys aged 7 to 12.
121digital

Digital natives share skills with adults crossing digital and generational divides
Map My Day

Organise an event to map the accessibility of public places in your community and raise awareness of the topic
The Last Plastic Straw

Start a grassroots campaign to reduce and eliminate wasteful plastic straws from our communities.
Trade School

Create an alternative learning community to share skills and talents in your community.
SOUP

Host a regular micro-granting dinner to celebrate and support creative projects in your community.
Nüdel Kart

Make creativity, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) and well being top priorities by transforming any space into a creative, loose parts, play space for 3-12 year olds.
Let Grow Play Club

Start your own Play Club, and unleash the power of unstructured play!
The Way We Were

Bringing young and old together through living history
Cyber Safe Ireland

Book an in-school workshop with Cyber Safe Ireland to help children use technology in a safe, positive and successful manner.
FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge - Ireland

FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge is a global STEM and robotics programme for girls and boys aged 11 to 16.
Green Home

With tips, advice and the Green Home survey, we have made it easy for you to “green” your home.
Climate Action Toolkit

Supporting secondary school students and teachers to engage and collaborate with their whole school community on climate action.
Fáilte Isteach

Welcome migrants and refugees to your community through conversational English classes
FIRST® LEGO® League Explore (IRL/UK)

Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) programme in your school or community for 6-9 year-olds.
Foróige Club

Empower young people in your community to be the best that they can be
Community Host Programme

The Open Community engages and supports people in Ireland to welcome refugees into their local communities.
Getting Started - KIT

Help older people to improve their digital literacy skills and to stay connected and informed
CycleBus

Promote active travel by bike for school children by starting a Cycle Bus in your local community.
Walking School Bus - Ireland

Organise a Walking School Bus: A healthier, more fun way to get to and from school.
Peace First

Equip young people with the skills and commitment to solve problems with courage, compassion and collaboration
Repair Café

Organise a free meeting place in your community to repair things instead of throwing them away.
GROW at School

Teaching kids the lifelong skill of growing their own food
Open Orchard

Organise an Open Orchard to bring people together, provide free fruit to local residents and green our urban environments.
Playground Ideas

Build a playground wherever you are, using local tools, materials, and skills
Play Day

A playful event in communities that celebrates the skills, resources and personalities inherent to the people that live and play there.
Pollinator Plan

Support biodiversity in your local community with the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan.
Cycling Without Age

Start a Cycling Without Age chapter in your community and give more people the opportunity to feel the wind in their hair.
Grow Remote

We're on a mission to make remote employment visible and available in local communities, regardless of location
Books for Bright Futures

Get beautiful Book Dash books to children in your community to bring them joy, support their health and happiness and build their future -- all you have to do is send our book files to a copy shop or printer and they will do the rest!
DIY Radio - Radio Local Broadcasters Club

Welcome to Radio Local Broadcasters Club where you get to make a radio show, harnessing the skills to do so and celebrating where you are from.
Pop Up Museum

Bring people together in conversation through stories, art, and objects.
Playful Street

A low cost and easy way to create play spaces so children and neigbours can fully enjoy the streets they live on
parkrun

Free weekly timed runs in your local community
Generation Citizen

Teach teens how to work with local leaders and take effective political action to fix local problems.
ReCreate

Creativity through Reuse
The Daily Mile

Children Fit For Life
Walks and Talks

An annual series of walks and talks aimed at connecting us more closely with our community and our place
Fighting Words

Unleash the creative potential of kids in your local community
parkHIIT

Free 30-minute weekly resistance exercise workouts for a mix of ages and backgrounds
FIRST® LEGO® League Discover - Ireland

FIRST® LEGO® League Explore is a global STEM programme for girls and boys aged 4 to 7.
Community Sharing Station

Create your own sharing station and start sharing goods in and with your community.
AsIAm

Responding to Covid-19 with support and resources for the autism community
Street Feast

A lovely lunch with your neighbours
Bike Library

A Bike Library is a bike sharing scheme for families to promote a shift towards sustainable transport.
Community Games

Provide more opportunities for kids in your area to live a healthy and active lifestyle
FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge (IRL/UK)

Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) programme in your school or community for 9-16 year-olds.
Poetry in the Park

Organize a regular community gathering in your local area to celebrate a love of the written or spoken word.
Urban Thinkscape

Transform a public space in your community into a joyful learning opportunity.
FreshWater Watch

Join the fight for healthier waterbodies. This is a global research project empowering individuals and communities as freshwater citizen scientists.
STEAM In A Box

STEAM-In-A-Box programmes are fun, creative, curriculum-linked programmes inspiring primary school children (and teachers!) to love STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths)!
Better Block Parklet

Expand public or private space with these digitally fabricated parklets.
Refill Ireland Project

Preventing plastic bottle waste by making free tap water easily obtainable
WeCount Project

Monitor traffic and air pollution in your local community and use the data to create healthier and more sustainable communities.
Murals for Communities

Using mural art to build and nurture creative communities
Tales Toolkit

Interactive, child-led storytelling toolkit for schools transforming everyday situations into imaginative worlds.
Small Pocket Forest

Plant a Pocket Forest of 25sqm (5mx5m) in your garden, community or school (County Dublin only)
GIY

Get together with people in your community and share the joy of growing your own food.
Community Fridge

Start a community fridge in your community to share good food that would otherwise go to waste.
Precious Plastic Europe LITE

A decentralised micro plastic recycling system to help you recycle and make products locally.
Sick of Plastic

Empowering communities to take action on single-use plastics
Sew Change

Community Mask Making Project - Assisting people that own a sewing machine to make masks for the must vulnerable in our communities
Tangible Coding Club

Bridging the digital divide and making coding accessible to learners without the need for computers or electricity, fostering future tech innovators.
Playing with Trust

Playing With Trust is a very unique board game/digital game that encourages the playful use of public spaces
Welcome Dinner

Welcome new arrivals with dinner in your community. Join a welcoming movement built around food, language and social interaction.
KABOOM!

Turn everyday places into playspaces through Play Everywhere.
Kitcamp

Children build their own imaginative play spaces and then rebuild and start again
AsIAm for Schools

A secondary school programme engaging students in becoming more autism aware and friendly
Playworks

Leverage evidence-based play strategies to transform the culture of your recess, classroom, or youth program!
Solar Education for Primary Schools

Exciting and emotional teaching materials about solar energy and electricity
Large Community Pocket Forest

Large urban forests of native species where biodiverse habitats are created above and below ground.
Environment Leaders Programme (16 - 18 year olds)

Building leadership skills to act positively for our natural world
The GreenPlan

Empowering society to tackle climate change

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