News and Events
Knit & Sew club do their bit for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin
The ladies in our Knit & Sew club have been super busy. They have just knitted an amazing 34 hats and 25 blankets for little ones attending Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. The children are aged 0-4 years and these hand-made items are a simple but lovely gift for their worried parents. Josephine Henry of Dublin City Community Co-op kindly set up the link with the hospital and organised the wool, patterns, etc. It's safe to say she was stunned by quality and number of items the ladies knitted in such a short time.
Final touches to our community garden
Here's our community garden team again. On a warm, sunny Tuesday in early July we planted the veggies we'd grown from seed in our Zoom classes, led by gardener John (right of pic) - salads, cucumbers, tomatoes and spinach.
A trip to the Botanic Gardens
Here's Ann and Ellen (L/R) on our Garden Club trip to the Botanic Gardens this Thursday. Margaret, Patricia and Lily also came along and were just as happy. Sadly Christine and Bridget couldn't join us.
Our garden club gets real
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.
Sheriff Street reaches quarter final of SARI's Football for Unity festival
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.
To Dublin Bus and all our funders
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.
NWCDP's Gardening and Knitting clubs go digital!
‘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.
INTREO’s Work & Skills Week
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’.
NWCDP takes up Jerusalema challenge
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.