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Southside Travellers Action Group Ltd. is a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital
Contact Us: Unit 5, St. Kieran's Enterprise Centre, Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18 Email:info@ southsidetravellers.ie No: 335 043 Charity No:CHY 8518 | |||
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Our Vision Southside Travellers Action Group envisions an Ireland where the human and civil rights, dignity, hopes and distinct cultural identity of Travellers are acknowledged and respected. Our Mission Operating within the context of community development principles and practice, we seek to realise our vision through the design, development and implementation of a series of integrated programmes which respond - proactively - to the needs of Travellers in the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown area. Our Core Principles In all of our work, we are guided by the core principles of: Traveller Leadership and Participation Advocacy and Equality Partnership and Accountability
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Programme Updates
Southside Travellers mourn the passing of a fabulous colleague, friend and mentor (10/02/2012) It was with incredible sadness that we heard of the passing of our great colleague, friend and mentor Angela Stenson after a short, but bravely fought illness. Over the years, Angela had worked tirelessly to support and mentor us in the development of our services for children and their parents and played a pivotal role in the development of our highly successful "Our Gailles" pre-preschool programme in 2010. We all remember the guffaws of laughter from children, parents and staff during that time and the fascination our children had with her guitar playing and the story about a pigeon and a bus. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this difficult time and as a tribute, we will be naming our soon to be completed children's space "The Stenson Room". May she rest in natural, great peace.
Great night out at the Muppet Movie Premiere (8/02/2012)
Thanks to Linda's great "friendship" with Ryan (the Tubs) Tubridy, Nigel, Ms Connors, Jackie, Eileen and Jim were treated to a night of glitz, glamour and movie fun at the Muppet Movie premiere on Monday evening. Dressed up to the nines, our "8 - 9"ers were treated to popcorn, slushies and nachos and great seats. There were lots of "hello's", "how are yiz?", "What's your names?" from the heart-throb of the door knobs Tubridy himself. As you can see from the pics, our gang take this red carpet business pretty seriously - and they even got Ryan to sign a mug for Linda as a little thank you present.
27/1/2012: Big Up to John, Graham, Jimmy and Gerry
13/1/2012: Breaking News - Southside Travellers are going to the Aras
Jobs and Training at Southside Travellers (27/01/2012) Applications are now closed for our TASK Assistant Co-Ordinator/Trainer position. We received a significant number of applications and will begin shortlisting on Monday, January 30th. Thanks to everyone who applied, all applications have now been acknowledged.
Join our TASK Programme If you are aged between 18 and 24 (ish), in receipt of a social welfare payment and interested in participating in our TASK (Training, Awareness, Skills and Knowledge) Programme, contact Patrick at 01 295 7372 for more information on how to register your interest. You can also go to Core Programmes in the main menu to find out more about the Programme.
Carlsberg don't do builders, but if they did... It's the final countdown, the last push, almost there....Gavin, Willy and Wayne have been working flat out to complete our new education and training unit. It's actually true, it is nearly there. We were going to upload a picture of the "most amazing fully disability accessible bathroom in the world", but we thought not. One more week....
Education and Training Unit Almost Complete(11/01/2012) Our renovation work to design our neweducation and training unitwhich will house our enhanced TASK Programme and provide a space for us to provide adult and community education opportunities for Travellers in DLR is almost complete. Thanks to the excellent Project Management skills of Chris McDonagh (Cleaning Services Ireland and Board Member) and the work of Gavin and Willy, the space is now at the painting stage. We look forward to moving in and making TASK even more of a success in 2012. Thanks to DLR County Council and Southside Partnership for providing the funding to complete this phase of our resource centre refurbishment. Phase (II) will focus on upgrading our Children and Young People's facilities and finally, Phase (III) will enhance our core resource centre space. Fingers crossed, its been a long road....
Advocacy and Accomodation Programme (11/01/2012) With the return of our Programme Manager (Katy Quayle) from Maternity Leave and Biddy Doran now in post as Advocacy and Accomodation Officer and Traveller Representative on the LTACC, the programme is, according to Katy "positively galvanised" (!) and looking forward to making a difference in 2012. The new space should help too, so, a programme is now in place to: · Establish advice and information clinics - using outside services & thereby increasing drop-in by Community members and better utilising Centre resources · Continue to strengthen relationship with outside partners & DLR County Council Traveller Accomodation Unit · Network / build relationships with Local TD's · Bring issues of local concern to national fora through the ITM Accomodation Working Group · Continue to provide support and advice on one-to-one basis Contact Katy or Biddy for more information
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Happy New Year and welcome back to our upgraded website. Actually, you won't see a huge difference, but you should feel it in the functionality and speed at which you can navigate and get the information you need on our programmes, staff and work. It's been a really busy couple of months since we last updated this page, so check out the programme updates below to keep in touch with all that's happening at the centre.
It's a sad day for us here at the Resource Centre as we say goodbye to four long-standing staff members and CE scheme participants - Gerry Cowen, John Cox, Graham McGarry and Jimmy Moorehouse.
Never underestimate the power of the Christmas card!
DLR to Launch "The Future is Ours" - Integration Strategy and Action Plan|
Children and Young People's Programme Information
It's that time of year again, our full programme of activities and events starts Monday, January 16. Contact Alison on 01 295 7372 for more details.
Homework Club (8 -12's) Snacks, homework and fun and games every Monday - Thursday 2.30 - 4.00 (€1 per child, per session)
January Events and Activities Mon (5 - 7pm) Young Womens' Group Tues (4 - 7pm) Drama Games (New!) Wed (4 - 8pm) Boy's Group Thurs (4 - 8pm) Animal Welfare Project (New!) Fri (2 - 4pm) Drop-In
* Parents please note, all activities take place in our resource centre in Sandyford - and don't forget to check in with the youth office around transport.
JOBS and TRAINING Keep an eye here for upcoming job and training opportunities C E Scheme Opportunities Our CE Scheme participants get the benefit of on the job work experience in our Programme teams (Children and Young People, TASK, Community Health and Well-Being and Resource Centre) and opportunities to access real and meaningful, accredited training. We currently have two vacancies:
Caretaker Youth Worker
For more information, contact Elizabeth on 01 295 7372
TRAINING
Join our TASK Programme If you are aged between 18 and 24 (ish), in receipt of a social welfare payment and interested in participating in our TASK (Training, Awareness, Skills and Knowledge) Programme, contact Patrick at 01 295 7372 for more information on how to register your interest.
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