This week, our Garden Club burst out of Zoom and met face-to-face for the first time in 18 months.
For two hours we dug and tidied the flower and veggie beds in our Community Garden. The garden is a little oasis between NWCDP's building and Dublin City Council's St. Laurence O'Toole Recreation Centre, D.1.
Our 'Street Kings' soccer team had a smashing win against the 'Intercultural Ambassadors' in the Football for Unity tournament - we're too modest to give the score! This brought them to quarter final glory. Sadly they got knocked out by their quarter final opponents, but there's always next year.
The 7-a-side football tournament was organised by Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI). The Football for Unity festival is taking place in venues across the NEIC and will end on Friday 16th July.
It’s time for a big thank you. Our funders play a very important role in our work at North Wall CDP.
We are delighted to confirm that we were one of 65 groups that Dublin Bus chose for a 2020 Community Spirit Award.
‘Go Digital!’, our new outreach project, is up and running. Thanks to the Community Foundation for Ireland we’ve bought seven Acorn tablets to bring our gardening and knitting club members together online. This is a trial project. Our community friends will learn new digital skills as they use the tablets for weekly gardening workshops, yoga and dance classes and a ‘Knit & Sew’ group where they can swap stories as they work. All using Zoom.
Ann Murphy, North Wall CDP’s General Manager, made a presentation during Intreo’s Work & Skills Week on Wednesday, 21st April. She was a guest speaker on the panel called ‘Support for Jobseekers – For people looking to find work’.
In February, when lockdown was getting us down, we did the Jerusalema challenge. A simple, powerful dance that's great for community spirit. The Jerusalema started in Africa last October. It spread to Europe and around the world - Australia, Asia, the USA. Then to the NEIC this Spring. Our NWCDP staff learned their steps and did their bit.
Watch out for the Little Treasures’ staff in purple uniforms, Luke Kelly’s head, nimble teachers and Josie's Irish dancing steps. Thanks to Sandy Doody for this final edit.
International Women’s Day is a landmark event for North Wall CDP. This year we couldn't invite our community friends to the centre for the usual coffee, cake and chat but we still marked it the day. On 8th March at 11am staff walked our ECCE pre-schoolers safely down to the River Liffey. There they threw flowers into the water to remember and honour women who suffer abuse. It was a lovely walk on a Spring day.
Our pre-schoolers have returned to Little Treasures Community Crèche. In line with Government guidelines, we resumed our Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme on 8th March. It was great to see them. The staff organised a warm welcome with balloons and a little walk down to the Liffey. In recent weeks we've been caring for children of essential workers. Our childcare service are reopening to all other children on a step-by-step basis, subject to public health advice.
Ann Murphy, our new general manager, highlights the great work North Wall CDP has been doing in the past 35 years.
In this video, she also focusses on Community Employment (CE) and the benefits it offers.
We have childcare positions available in our Little Treasures Community Crèche.
Take a look at the video! https://vimeo.com/482534040/33053a165d
On Wednesday 9th December we held our Sheriff Street clean up. Lots of people braved the cold, damp morning including the learners on our Sport & Recreation LTI team. Thanks lads (including Ger and Amy!). We also appreciated the help from our staff, community partners, Dublin City Council and Greystar Ireland, who are located nearby. The Green Ribbon team gave us planting tips and two lovely flower containers.
It was a great morning. We’ll do it again!