Our Community Development Team is committed to working in collaboration with our key community stakeholders and partners to build resilient, inclusive, sustainable, thriving communities. We believe all individuals should have equal access to opportunity. Using a community development approach our teams will strive to empower marginalised communities to actively address socio-economic issues in their community. Together we will identify innovative opportunities for long term investment that will enhance opportunity for individuals and communities who may experience social exclusion to have equal access to education, employment, health, economic and cultural initiatives.
Southside Partnership in Ballybrack Project Centre is a hub of community life in the Ballybrack community. We work with local community groups and our partners and provide a range of community education and health and wellbeing programmes for older people and people with disabilities.
Social Enterprises aim to make a social, societal or environmental impact by trading and building new, creative business models. They are organisations that achieve a tangible social impact and are a growing sector in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown. Through passion, hard work and determination they make a difference and create positive social changes that benefit everyone, and all of our communities.
The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) 2024-2028 is co-funded by the Irish Government through the Department of Rural and Community Development and the European Union through the Europe Social Fund Plus under the Employment, Inclusion, Skills, and Training (EIST) Programme 2021-2027.
Supported through Tús, CE and Age Action Ireland our free Care & Repair Service helps vulnerable older people in the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown area with essential pieces of work in their homes.