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Have your say on the draft National Volunteering
Strategy 2020 - 2025













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Dear
colleague,

The Department of Rural and Community Development -
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volunteering strategy -
[link removed] . The draft is currently out for consultation meaning that you can
provide feedback on the draft before it becomes final.

The draft strategy and information on how to make a submission to the
consultation can be read on the Department web site -
[link removed] . The deadline for submissions is 31st January 2020.

To inform our own submission, Volunteer Ireland will be holding two
consultations as follows:

> Tuesday 14th January, 08.30 - 09.30 (morning) in Wynn's Hotel,
Dublin 1
> Wednesday 15th January, 18.30 - 19.30 (evening) in Wynn's Hotel,
Dublin 1

You can register -
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will hold their own local consultations – find details of your
local Volunteer Centre -
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January 2019 -
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Register to attend one of our consultation workshops now -
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Why is it important to develop a National Volunteering Strategy?

Volunteer Ireland and the network of Volunteer Centres and
Volunteering Information Services have been advocating for a national
volunteering strategy for many years and we are now almost there.
Volunteering in Ireland faces many challenges, such as changing
demands from volunteers, demographic changes and lack of resourcing.
A national strategy is a chance for people who live and breathe
volunteering every day to have an impact on developing volunteering
in Ireland.

Kind regards

Nina Arwitz
CEO
Volunteer Ireland
Register to attend a Consultation workshop now -
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