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Tara Cunningham
Release Communication Intervention
Release Communication Intervention provides speech and language therapy to parents of children with learning and speech disabilities through group therapy at a relatively low cost.
Brendan Dowling
Spirited Voices Project
Spirited Voices Project aims to assist individual citizens to be heard and to stimulate positive and energised change in society.
John Redican
Family and Carers Advocacy Project
John works to identify the needs of families and carers of people who experience mental health problems.
Jenny MacDonald & Orla Hanson
Desert Fish
Desert Fish Productions is a theatre company which uses a drama based model for confronting social issues amongst young people.
Rotimi Adebari
Respecting Difference
Rotimi hosts a local community radio programme, called titled “Respecting Difference” on Midlands 103.
Paddy McGowan & Kieran Crowe
The Institute for Mental Health Recovery
The Institute was set up by former users of mental health services to promote and drive a recovery agenda.
Salome Mbugua Henry
AkiDwA
AkiDwA is a national network of African women living in Ireland empowering themselves and speaking for themselves in order to enhance changes on issues that affect them in their lives.
Caroline Kelly
The ALFA Project
The Alfa Project is a full time education initiative for 13-16 year olds who have dropped out of school, providing a real alternative to the academic exam led education.
Albert Byrne
The Lynx Project
The Lynx Project aims to establish a facility where people can experience the first 24 hour call help line for addictions such as Drugs, Alcohol and Gambling.
Heather Rosen
Advocacy Alliance
Heather runs a project to challenge discrimination and racism against the Travelling Community.
John McCarthy
Sports 4 Success
Sports 4 Success is an after schools education programme for boys and girls aged between 9-12 years who are educationally disadvantaged.
Paul O'Hara
The Hope Concept
The Hope Concept aimed to develop a range of branded food products for the Irish market which would generate revenue for International Aid Agencies and build awareness of the Millenium Development Goals.
Frank Buckley
Sports Against Racism Ireland (SARI)
SARI supports and promotes cultural integration and social inclusion through sport.
Philip Mullally
Community Timebank
Community Timebank is focused on making communities better places to live, working with people, projects, groups and businesses by connecting them to each other.
Joan Hamilton
Slí Eile
Slí Eile is a housing association which provides transitional, supportive housing for people in mental distress.
Niamh Clune
Gort Regional Alliance for Community and the Environment (GRACE)
GRACE is an umbrella association for twenty-five established and newly formed groups in the Gort region.
Issah Huseini
WANET
WANET’s mission is to build capacity within the African community through their own collective efforts and be a national African voice for the African community.
Bob Seward
The Cork Academy of Music
The Cork Academy of Music provides training in music skills to residents of the north side of Cork City.
Elizabeth Garrahy
Arts For Peace Foundation
The Arts for Peace Foundation creates residential respite and rehabilitation Therapeutic Recreation programmes for children affected by conflict in Ireland and abroad
Brian Flanagan
The Plaza Project
The Plaza Project encompasses a dance hall/exhibition space and proposes to establish an ‘indoor street’ – a café style space for teenagers to socialise in a safe and alcohol free environment.
Yemisi Ojo
IACI-Network
IACI’s mission is to serve as a networking information forum for all African children living in Ireland by networking and consulting with African children on a local, regional and on a national level.
Liam Réamonn
The Living Communities Movement
The Living Communities Movement works to enhance the confidence and well-being of Irish-speaking people and communities who suffer from deprivation and lack of self-esteem.
Niall Larkin
www.ducky.ie
Niall’s project is "An Irish Solution to a Bebo Problem”.
Bridget Carlin
SIOLTA
SIOTLA aims to create model examples of how people can undertake and promote sustainable living practises with a focus on biodiversity – both wild and agricultural.
