Resources

Hints and Tips when seeking Funding and Support

What is the role of a group treasurer

The role of the Chairperson

What is the role of a group secretary

Developing a constitution

Sample Constitution

Sample Agenda for general meetings

Sample Agenda for AGM

Management of Voluntary and Community Organisations
http://www.cidb.ie/ComhairleVCS.nsf/HTMLPages/Supports?Opendocument


Irish Fundraising Handbook
http://www.create-ireland.ie/projects-and-initiatives/publications.html

A guide to best Practice in Community Consultation
http://www.monaghancdb.ie/forum.shtml

Useful Links

Local links

Offaly County Council

Offaly County Council Planning Information Pack

Arts in Offaly

Library Services

Events Calender

What’s happening in Offaly this week


Festivals in Offaly

National Links

The Wheel- National Community & Voluntary Resource Centre http://www.wheel.ie/
The Wheel is a support and representative body connecting community and voluntary organisations and charities across Ireland. Established eight years ago, The Wheel has evolved to become a resource centre and forum for the community and voluntary sector nationally.


Website of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs http://www.pobail.ie
To promote and support the sustainable and inclusive development of communities, both urban and rural,including Gaeltacht and island communities, thereby fostering better regional balance and alleviating disadvantage, and to advance the use of the Irish language.

Access to Government Department Websites http://www.irlgov.iewww.irlgov.ie
The Government of Ireland website.
This site will help you to find government organisations or information by providing links, indices of recent publications and a search engine that searches all government sites.

Volunteering http://www.volunteer.ie
Volunteer Centres Ireland (VCI) began in the year 2000 when some of the earliest volunteer centres in Ireland (including what is now the Tallaght Volunteer Centre and Volunteering Ireland), came together to discuss common issues that affected them all.

Activelink http://www.activelink.ie
The Online Network for Irish Non-Profit Organisations

www.cso.ie Central Statistics Office
Combat Poverty Agency www.cpa.ie
comhairle www.comhairle.ie

Data Protection Commissioner www.dataprivacy.ie
Department of Education & Science www.irlgov.ie/educ
Department of the Environment & Local Government www.environ.ie
Department of Health & Children www.doh.ie
Department of Justice Equality & Law Reform www.irlgov.ie/justice
Department of Social & Family Affairs www.welfare.ie

Economic & Social Research Institute www.esri.ie
Equality Authority www.equality.ie

Focus Ireland www.focusireland.ie
Health Research Board www.hrb.ie
Irish Social Science Data Archive
Money Advice and Budgeting Service www.mabs.ie

National Consultative Committee on Racism & Interculturalism
National Council on Ageing and Older People
National Database of Research on the Voluntary Sector www.heanet.ie/volsec
National Disability Authority www.nda.ie
National Women’s Council of Ireland www.nwci.ie

Office of the Information Commissioner www.irlgov.ie/oic
Office of the Revenue Commissioners www.revenue.ie
Pavee Point Travellers Centre www.paveepoint.ie
Threshold National Housing Organisation www.threshold.ie