Helping Irish Hosts, a group formed by Irish volunteers to support war refugees displaced in the early months of Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine, has criticised the level of difficulty it faced in getting charitable status. In the end it actually gave up on the process, which it criticised for being unwieldy, unrealistic and even threatening.
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Hundreds of young people have benefited from programmes run by Hair Together, which provides programmes mixing wellbeing activities with hairstyling and barbering, to support young people in Ballymun and surrounding areas.
It was founded by Eileen McHugh and she spoke about her own journey through adversity and that of Hair Together at the In Our Words conference in Athlone, which showcased the impact of grassroots community work through the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP).
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Tús is the Irish word for start or begin. However, bureaucracy around opening bank accounts is having a severe impact on some people who want to get back into the labour force, according to James Hill of the Northside Partnership in Dublin.
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The Crosscare community cafe in Portland Row, Dublin, is seeing demand go up as well as its costs, according to senior manager for community services Yvonne Fleming.
She says that the impact of inflation was really noticeable towards the end of the year and it is hard to find a steady source of funding.
The Hill Cafe at the Southill Hub in Limerick city is feeling the brunt of the savage inflation of recent years, according to spokesperson Aisling Lohan. While footfall has increased, it has led to increased costs.
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