September Newsletter 2022

Tipperary PPN September Newsletter 2022

International Day of Peace

Tipperary Town September 2022

International Day of Peace is designated by the UN General Assembly since 1981 and is observed around the world annually on September 21st.

This year, in Co. Tipperary, there was a Ceremony of Reflection in Tipperary Town’s St. Mary’s Church. The theme for 2022 was “End Racism, Build Peace”.

Tipperary PPN coordinator, Ruth Smith, attended along with Kuldeep Joshi, a new secretariat member for social inclusion groups in the Tipperary, Cahir & Cashel municipal district (MD) and founder member of the PPN community group, Federation of Indian Communities in Ireland (FICI).

Kuldeep was invited to say  a reflection at the International Day of Peace event. He chose Gandhi’s Prayer for Peace which is below:

I offer you peace

I offer you love

I offer you friendship

I see your beauty

I hear your need

I feel your feelings

My wisdom flows from the highest source

I salute that source in you

Let us work together

For unity and peace.

Kuldeep was also heavily involved in the organisation of a new event this month to County Tipperary, that encouraged real intercultural connection in our county.

Funded by the County Council’s Migrant Integration Strategy fund, Indian community members in Tipperary, FICI, organised their first “ Vinayaka Festival” in Cashel. This festival included multicultural activity from Indian diaspora from all over Ireland  to showcase “ Unity in Diversity” and a community fair provided a platform for other local community members to showcase their heritage. Everyone shared a meal, or jeeman, after the celebrations and activities

Kuldeep Joshi (FICI) and Margo Hayes (Tipperary County Council) with friends at the Vinayaka Festival in Cashel.

We welcome Kuldeep to the Tipperary PPN secretariat, along with Martins Punculis (Carrick-on-Suir MD Environmental rep) and Niamh Ni Chillin (Tipperary, Cahir & Cashel MD Community & Voluntary rep) and thank you for your willingness to volunteer!

Active Public Consultations/Notices

Funding/ Grant Opportunities

Supporting Communities Grant to 2022 South Tipperary Development Company (STDC) Local Community Groups. To support communities and target groups to engage with relevant stakeholders in identifying and addressing social exclusion and equality issues, developing the capacity of Local Community Groups, and creating more sustainable communities. LCGs must have a social inclusion or equality focus and /or address the needs of a Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) target

Please click for the criteria outlining the eligibility for the South Tipperary Community Development CLG, 2022 Local Communities Grants (LCG’s) and applications form

Grants should not duplicate any other sources of funding for the same costs e.g. Local Authority, RDP, Community Facilities etc.

Phase 3. 

Applicants must be a member of South Tipperary Development Company \ SICAP Local Community Groups.

Closing Date for application is 14th October 2022

For more information  please contact Paddy Fitzpatrick; LCG Development Worker; SICAP Officer South Tipperary Development CLG

Text 087 3485239  | 052 744262 | paddyfitzpatrick@stdc.ie | info@stdc.ie 

With the support of the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage, The Community Foundation’s Environment and Nature Fund has been devised to enhance biodiversity in communities throughout the country by combining the expertise of qualified ecologists with the skills, experience and enthusiasm of local community groups.

There are currently two grant rounds open to applications:

• To develop Community Biodiversity Action Plan and Projects (CBAPPs)

OR

• To implement recommendations from a previous CBAPP

Organisations can apply once to one of the grant rounds above.

Through the first grant round, local organisations can apply for up to €10,000 to develop and produce a CBAPP in their local area with the help of an ecologist.

In the second grant round, local organisations can apply for up to €5,000 to implement the recommendations of a previous CBAPP.

The grant rounds are open for applications until Friday 7th October, and grants to successful applicants will be awarded before Christmas.

For more information, full criteria and the online application forms, please see https://www.communityfoundation.ie/grants/types-of-grants/community-biodiversity-grants

In response to the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023, the Arts Council is working in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to support the creation of a national programme, Art 2023. 

This award is for professional artists and arts organisations to collaborate with communities across Ireland to create ambitious works of impact. This award is a call to professional artists and arts organisations across all artforms to create ambitious work in collaboration with communities of interest and/or place. The outcomes of this award will form a programme of work contributing to the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023.

Max Award: €150,000

Deadline: 17:30, Thursday 13th October

More Info: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Art-2023-%E2%80%93-Participation-Award/

Public Service Announcements, Training and Upcoming Local Events

Recovery College Southeast are running a number of workshops in the coming months

October 

• Creative Writing (Online Workshop)

• Creative Writing (in-house) – Involvement Centre, Kilkenny

• Creative Writing (in-house) – Involvement Centre , Carlow

• Personal Narrative (3 week online workshop)

• Personal Development Programme (8 week online workshops Introduction to Personal Development, Self Awareness, Developing Positive thinking, Building our Self Confidence and Self Belief, Assertiveness, Effective Communication, Maintaining Motivation, Self-care and Wellbeing)
• Understanding and Managing Depression (3 week in-house workshop – Recovery College South East)

• Understanding and Living with Paranoia (Morning online workshop)

• Good Communication Skills (3 week online workshop)

• Mindfulness (4 week online workshop)

• Practical Facilitation Skills (4 week online workshop)

• Support group for people who live with Anxiety (Online group – last Monday every month)

November

• Creative Writing (Online Workshop)

• Creative Writing (in-house) – Involvement Centre, Kilkenny

• Creative Writing (in-house)- Involvement Centre , Carlow

• Understanding and Managing Addictions (4 week online workshop)

• Loneliness and Isolation (4 week online workshop)

• Understanding and Managing Anxiety (4 week in-house workshop – Recovery College South East)

• WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) (2 week in-house workshop – Board Room, St Dympna’s Hospital, Carlow)

• Recovery Principles and Practice(Morning in-house workshop – Recovery College South East

• Compassionate Mind (4 week online workshop)

• Getting a good night’s sleep (Morning online workshop)

• Support group for people who live with Anxiety (Online group – last Monday every month)

December 

• Creative Writing (Online Workshop)

• Creative Writing (in-house) – Involvement Centre, Kilkenny

• Creative Writing (in-house)- Involvement Centre , Carlow

• WRAP – Level 1 (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) (2 day in-house workshop – Recovery College South East)
  
• Support group for people who live with Anxiety (Online group – last Monday every month)

For further information on dates and times for these workshops please email recoverycollegesoutheast@gmail.com or see details on their website https://www.recoverycollegesoutheast.com/

• Supporting Anxious Children – All children worry at times. However, for an increasing number of children, managing anxiety can be a real challenge. It is important that parents and pre-school practitioners understand how to best support anxious children. This webinar provides practical advice for you to support children who struggle with anxiety.

• Parenting in the Online World – All children worry at times. However, for an increasing number of children, managing anxiety can be a real challenge. It is important that parents and pre-school practitioners understand how to best support anxious children. This webinar provides practical advice for you to support children who struggle with anxiety.

• Parenting Tweens and Teens– During adolescence, teenagers develop a new identity, which can be challenging for parents. This webinar explores the changes taking place in the teenage brain and how these changes impact social and emotional development. The webinar also provides practical advice to maintain a positive family relationship to reduce conflict as you set new rules and boundaries. 
• Parenting with Patience– Parenting can be challenging. Parents deal with various testing behaviours such as tantrums from little ones to negotiation with older children. Managing children’s behaviour is important in terms of their social and emotional development. This webinar provides practical advice to support behaviour in a positive way. 
• Raising Resilient Children – Resilience is key to helping children cope with the ups and downs that life throws at them. Resilience helps children bounce back from adversity. Resilience helps children develop solutions to problems and gives them self-confidence to overcome difficulties. This webinar demonstrates how you help children develop resilience.  
• Supporting Anxious Teenagers – Levels of anxiety in our teenagers are rising rapidly, and Irish 11-15-year-olds are the second highest in Europe to present with emotional issues In this talk, Mary explains how anxiety impacts our teenagers and explains how changes in the teenage brain make it more susceptible to mental health issues. She parents practical advice on how to support their teenagers during difficult times, helping them to manage their fears and become more resilient.
• Developing a Growth Mindset – From Surviving to Thriving – A growth mindset is having the knowledge that putting effort into tasks can help you learn and grow. Children try harder to achieve when they realise that we all learn from making mistakes. This in turn helps children achieve their full potential. This webinar explores the child’s inner voice, the voice that helps the reach their full potential. 

C-SAW have expanded their Clonmel service to Tipperary Town. 

There is a free drop in coffee morning hosted at the C.J. Kickham Brass and Red Band Hall on Davis Street in Tipperary Town every Monday morning from10.30am to 12.30pm.

C-SAW was established to help members of the community who have lost loved ones to suicide and now extends to all who would like to find support because of feeling low, sad or depressed. The group is open to all 18yr olds and upwards and provides a ‘Listening Ear’ support service. Free Counselling is available by appointment.

For more information please visit www.csaw.ie

Wednesday, 19th October 2022, 2.00 – 5.00 p.m. in Sport & Leisure Centre, St. Joseph’s, Ferryhouse, Clonmel

Tipperary Children and Young People’s Services Committee (CYPSC) invites you to a workshop on how Adverse Childhood Experiences can impact on the development of children and young people, causing trauma which can have lasting detrimental effects on behaviour and functioning. The purpose of the workshop is to raise awareness about an issue which can feature in a variety of ways among the children, young people and adults to whom you provide a service.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) include abuse, sexual, physical and emotional, as well as sustained exposure in a home environment to such issues as domestic violence & abuse, alcohol and substance misuse and others.  The cumulative impact of a number of these issues on a child’s development has been shown to significantly increase the likelihood of a child engaging in risky future behaviour, experiencing poor health outcomes (e.g. smoking, alcohol/drug misuse, poor diet and obesity, teen pregnancy, chronic disease, violence or incarceration), and having ‘difficulty in changing course’ as they move through adulthood.

The centre-piece of the workshop is a viewing of the documentary, ‘ Resilience: the Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope’, which examines the impact of ACEs and also how the promotion of resilience can stop cycles of adversity and disease and positively impact health and wellbeing.

Please contact Ruairí O Caisleáin, Tipperary CYPSC Coordinator, at contact details below to confirm a place at the workshop by Friday, 30th September 2020.

Tel. 087 995 3835 / Email: Ruairi.OCaisleain@tusla.ie

Please find the current edition of the Tipperary CYPSC Parent Support calendar attached and also attached is a fact sheet with further information about the programmes and links to web-sites..

EPA’s Stop Food Waste programme is the national food waste prevention campaign, providing guidance and resources to help people reduce their food waste. 

The EPA’s Stop Food Waste programme is the national food waste prevention campaign, providing guidance and resources to help people adopt good food management behaviours and reduce their food waste.

Planning What You’re Going to Cook can help you avoid food waste. 

The simple steps we want to encourage people to take are:

• Plan what you’re going to cook and use food you already have.
• Plan meal portions by measuring the amount of ingredients you need.

“Plan Your Cooking” to avoid Food Waste – Stop Food Waste

Boardmatch will be running a free 3-part webinar series from September – November, for charities and not-for-profits looking to improve their board recruitment processes. 

These practical webinars will provide charities will the tools and tips they need to implement and advance their board recruitment processes. 

•  Succession Planning: A practical session on how to develop and implement your board succession plan and process – 28th September (12pm – 12.45pm)
• Reviewing the skills on your board: A practical session on how to complete a board skills audit and integrate it into your recruitment process – 25th October (12pm – 12.45pm)
• Finding Volunteer Board Members: A practical tutorial session on how to use the Boardmatch website to find Board Members – 17th November  (12pm – 12.45pm)

The first session is now open for registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlduyqpj0pHtyKmTrawFUNc-TLnOyagGr7

Tipperary Sports Partnership is facilitating a 6 week Aquafit Programme for Older Adults in

Roscrea Leisure Centre starting on Tuesday 4th October, 2022 at 12.30pm 

Sean Kelly Sports Centre Carrick on Suir on Thursday 6th October, 2022 at 10.00am.

Aqua Fit is A Water-Based Exercise Programme that caters for all Levels And Abilities.

It combines fun and exercise.

This programme costs €25 plus booking fee. Booking is through our website www.tipperarysports.ie.

4 weeks of online workshops starting on Tuesday 4th October 2022 

Week 1 – Strength & Conditioning in Sports

Week 2 – Sports Nutrition

Week 3 – Physical Literacy

Week 4 –   LTD in Sport

Further details and booking information is available on this link https://www.tipperarysports.ie/content/tipperary-sports-club-support-package

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Tipperary Sports Partnership in association with Suil Eile are facilitating Let’s Get Tipperary Town Walking.

This Walking Programme will commence on Monday 3rd October at 7.30pm. The Meeting Point is the Canon Hayes Recreation Centre.

This programme will be led by a qualified walking tutor each night and starts at a distance of 4km with small increases each week and will finish with a distance of 8.5km.

The cost of the programme is €10 + online booking fee.

Booking is through this link https://www.tipperarysports.ie/content/lets-get-tipperary-town-walking

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Tipperary Sports Partnership in association with Suil Eile are facilitating Let’s Get Walking Newport. This walking Programme will commence on Wednesday 5th October.

Meeting Point: Newport GAA Club at 7.30 p.m.

This programme will be led by a qualified walking tutor each night and starts at 4km with small increases each week and will finish with a distance of 8.5km.

The cost of the programme is €10 + online booking fee.

Booking is through this link https://www.tipperarysports.ie/content/lets-get-walking-newport

GOSHH are providing free training days for professionals who are working with LGBTI+ Young People in the Mid-West.

The LGBTI+ National youth Strategy states that organizations should be addressing the following areas:

• Discrimination, victimization, stigmatization and abuse.
• Difficulties coming out to families and communities
• Limited understanding by professional service providers and broader society of LGBTI+ issues
• Mental, physical and sexual health challenges

In response to this, GOSHH will be providing a number of one day training workshops. The aim of the day is to support professionals working with young people who identify as LGBTI+.

If you would like to be part of this training programme please see the dates below and the registration link underneath the dates.

Tuesday 01 November, 2022 – Limerick City
Absolute Hotel, Sir Harry’s Mall, Limerick, V94 WP52
Registration Link: https://GOSHH0111.eventbrite.ie

Thursday 24 November, 2022 – Newcastle West, County Limerick
Longcourt House Hotel, Dublin Road, Newcastle West, County Limerick
Registration Link: https://GOSHH2411.eventbrite.ie 

Please visit https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/arts/current-news-letter for the latest Arts Office Newsletter with information on upcoming opportunities, funding, classes and much more…