Are you a small community group in South Dublin County? Looking for some office space where you can work from for a morning/afternoon or even a day each week? Want to work in an open office environment with support structures such as a Community and Voluntary library, access to support from professional staff, IT support?

South Dublin County Volunteer Centre is delighted to announce that we are opening a new, small Community Hub this year from our offices in Tallaght. We would like to offer groups in the county FREE office space that groups can work from to do their administrative work for a fixed period of time each week (a morning/afternoon/day). We will provide Computers, Printers, Filing Space and Internet Access.

This project is aimed at small community groups who may struggle to pay rent for office space or have no office space and is looking for an space to work out of for small, fixed periods of time. Booking of the space will be on a first come, first served basis and groups must already be registerd with the volunteer centre to avail of this service.

For more information contact Tricia at 01 462 8558 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Our thanks to Dodder Valley Partnership for funding this project.

Some volunteering numbers from 2011 - did you know?...

South Dublin County Volunteer Corps

The South Dublin County Volunteer Corps (a project of the Volunteer Centre and South Dublin County Council) is now finished it's pilot phase. 2011 was a really successful year for this project with over 130 people registering to participate in the Corps and 9 projects particiated in.

Led by South Dublin County Volunteer Centre and South Dublin County Council, the South Dublin County Volunteer Corps is volunteer led movement of citizens of the county who make themselves available to volunteer at various events and/or emergencies in the county.

The volunteer corps will be contacted and mobilised to respond to extreme weather events buyt will mainly be available for large community activities such as parades, festivals, sporting events etc…

You can register an interest in the volunteer corps by clicking here. We will contact you with more information about the Corps and details of upcoming induction events.

If you are an organisation you can request the Corps to help out with your event. Once we've established that you meet certain criteria, we will inform the Corps of your event and organise for them to be there to help you on the day.

You can find out more on our website at www.volunteercorps.ie

Some upcoming and urgent volunteer vacancies

We have developed a new system to advertise individual volunteer vacancies on line - and as the year progresses we are hoping to facebook and "tweet" more volunteer vacancies.

Click on any of the links below to find more details of the these urgent and/or upcoming volunteer vacancies.