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As Ireland's National Youth Volunteering Programme, Localise enables all young people to come together and make a difference in their local communities. Our programmes can be run in primary & secondary schools or community groups by facilitators or teachers.
The perfect introduction to volunteering. Embrace inclusion and champion diversity while leaving a lasting and tangible impact. Develop important lifelong skills while actively shaping your local community.
Learn MoreCovering the core elements of volunteering, our Classroom to Community Programme is designed to awaken a spirit of volunteerism in school and community groups.
Learn moreEmpowering young people to develop practical skills for driving equitable climate justice initiatives at the grassroots level in their local communities.
Learn MoreVolunteering in Action Workshop
The perfect introduction to volunteering. Embrace inclusion and champion diversity while leaving a lasting and tangible impact. Develop important lifelong skills while actively shaping your local community.
How it works?
This workshop is designed to be delivered by adult facilitators or teachers. It takes an estimated 3-5 weeks to complete and is designed to work around your schedule.
What’s involved?
Learn the ins and outs of volunteering and complete an act of service in your community, with easy to follow templates and resources.
Learn MoreClassroom to Community
Covering the core elements of volunteering, our Classroom to Community Programme is designed to awaken a spirit of volunteerism in school and community groups.
How it works?
This programme takes 8-10 weeks to complete, dedicating 1 hour per week to the programme. It covers 5 core online modules and includes lesson plans, worksheets, teacher tutorials and animated videos.
What’s involved?
Create an action project for your group using our templates and get connected to be of service to others.
Learn MoreClimate Justice Volunteering
Empowering young people to develop practical skills for driving equitable climate justice initiatives at the grassroots level in their local communities.
How it works?
Through your school or youth club young people engage with climate justice through the prism of local grassroot volunteering projects.
What’s involved?
Young people will take action locally in a real and practical way to address climate justice inequalities that are most important to them.
Learn MoreLocalise National Youth Volunteering Portfolios (MyVP)
MyVP - The National Youth Volunteering Portfolio
The National Youth Volunteering Portfolio has the capacity to record, recognise and reaffirm the attributes, skills and learning gained through volunteerism, as a constant record of life events through this lens. It holds particular relevance for employability and as a record of the transversal skills in demand in the workplaces of the future. Certain courses of study in Further and Higher Education will take into consideration National Youth Volunteering Portfolio as evidence of accomplishments when allocating places for study.
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Challenging young people to make a difference!
Localise, Ireland's National Youth Volunteering Programme challenges and enables young people to come together and make a difference in their local community. Through the Localise Youth Volunteering Programmes, young people directly address the needs of their locality, working with various groups requiring support.
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What our participants are saying
Read More TestimonialsWhat Localise does is not just about volunteering, it’s about leadership through volunteering.
DCU President
Chabhraigh Localise go mór leis na scoláirí tuiscint a fháil ar obair dheonach agus ba iontach an rud é do chlár folláine na scoile a bhí á fhorbairt againn ag an am. Tháinig ionadaí na heagraíochta isteach chun muid a threorú sa chaoi is go mbeidh mé in ann tabhairt faoi mé fhéin amach anseo. Mholfainn é d'aon scoil toisc gur thaitin sé leis na scoláirí an méid sin agus spreagann sé cultúr den scoth a thógfaidh siad leo a saoil ar fad
Leamhcán
Through this [Localise] platform community groups and schools will be able to access instructional videos and other supports enabling them to facilitate a Localise programme in an online blended format… online platforms such as this are crucial in reimagining how we engage with young people.
The Localise programme is an excellent, well-developed programme that is very easy & enjoyable to facilitate. The programme aims to bring out the very best in young people by equipping them with the skills to become active youth volunteers within their community. The programme has been running for eight years in Beneavin College, & each year it’s grows strength from strength. It is a joy to be part of Localise.
Teacher, Dublin 11
