♻️ Reuse, Repair & Recycling Alert 26th April

⚠️ Important notice to members!

We’ve launched a Slack channel for CRNI members to connect and share. It’s just getting started, but you can join us here

Join us next Tuesday for a session on ‘Generating Corporate Sponsorship’ with Linda Ward, Secretary of the Irish Charity Shops Association

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89263435554?pwd=U2FVZGVtd0d5ekduYVpOMk44eVVGQT09

Passcode: 482054

🗞Member news

• Congratulations to FoodCloud CEO, Iseult Ward, for winning the inaugural Sustainability Champion of the Year Award at the IMAGE Media PwC Ireland Businesswoman of the Year Awards! 
• Habitat for Humanity Ireland have officially launched their ReStore in Drogheda. Learn more!
• Refill Ireland are looking for more businesses to add to their Tap map. Learn more here.
• Usel are providing supports for people in employment with a health condition or disability through Workable NI. Read more here.  

🗞News of the week

• CoRá is Ireland’s first National Competence Centre on Social Innovation and is being developed to help shape policy and inform the future development of social innovation in Ireland. Learn more about the initiative here. 

💡Business support + resources

• Accelerator Programme for Sustainable Textile and Fashion Designers: The EU-funded Fashion for Change 2022 Accelerator Programme aims to support designers, innovators and start-ups from the European textiles and fashion industry in the circular transition. Deadline: 19 May
• Have an organisational problem that needs sorting? Trinity College Dublin has a Master’s in Business Administration course that features a Social Enterprise Project. Each year, social enterprises put forward challenges for their cohort to help with. Contact Chris Gordon at [email protected] for more information.
• Enhance your business learning and skills in a real life setting with the free SocialB programme. Learn more here.
• Carmichael Centre has designed and developed this new eLearning Programme with the needs of social enterprises and growing non-profits in mind.  Each module can be purchased individually or can be purchased here as a bundle. This bundle can be accessed for 12 months after purchase. Learn more.

 📄Policy & reports

Important deadline reminders:

• Consultation (IRL): Reasonable accomodation fund Deadline: 29 April

• Consultation (IRL): Consultation on the draft Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC) Plan of Action Deadline: 10 May

• Consultation (EU): Microplastics pollution – measures to reduce its impact on the environment Deadline: 17 May

🔑Funding & awards

 Important deadline reminders:

• 26 April: Dublin Region Climate Action Open Data Challenge 2022
• 27 April: Cork City Council Waste Prevention Grants
• 29 April: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (RRDF)
• 29 April: Training Links Programme 2022-2024 
• 29 April:  Irish Innovation Seed Fund (IISF) 
• 5 May: Spencer Foundation, Conference Grants
• 13 May: The International Charity Bazaar
• 13 May: WorldWise Global Schools Annual Grant Call 2022/2023
• 16 May: Special call to support projects within the 2022 youth campaign for revitalising democracy 
• 29 May: European Bauhaus Call – Citizen Engagement
• 29 May: European Bauhaus Call – Co-Creation of public space through citizen engagement
• 31 May: Interreg NPA 2021-2027
• 1 June: EPA Research Call 
• 14 July: Community Centres Investment Fund
• 31 August: EU Innovation Fund small-scale projects
• Rolling deadline until 15 October: European Year of Youth Micro Grants 
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📈Business opportunities

• Present your own work as part of the Local Initiatives Marketplace at the OECD Local Development Forum ‘Better strategies for stronger communities’, 15-17 June, Cork. Learn more here.

• Tender opportunity: Office furniture supply, delivery, and installation for Community Digital Hub Office Fit Out Works at Railway House, Station Road, Loughrea, Co. Galway Deadline: 3 May

• Tender opportunity: Supply of School Classroom Loose Furniture and Office & Staffroom, General-Purpose Area, Music & Practical Rooms & Canteen furniture for Portumna Community School Deadline: 6 May

🤓Reading, Listening, Watching

• Read: Minister Heather Humphreys Launches 2022 SuperValu TidyTowns Competition
• Read: This Working Life: We must rewire our mindset to connect to the circular economy
• Read: EPA launches €11.7m fund for climate research in Ireland
• Read: Minister Humphreys Announces Details of New €15M Community Centre Fund
• Read: Why biomimicry is not just copying from nature
• Read: Annual 20000ha afforestation required to achieve net zero emissions
• Read: Boots to ban the sale of plastic-based wet wipes
• Read: Why second-hand upcycling can be even better than new
• Read: Tesco Ireland unveils new flower pot made of recycled plastic packaging
• Read: Cost of liability insurances rises by 16% over the past year

👋🏻 Events 

CRNI Members only

We’ve updated our 2022 schedule of member events, check them out here!

Have something you’d like us to do? Get in touch with [email protected]

Public Reuse, Repair & Recycle events

• 26 April, Workshop: Building an EU Partnership
• 26 April, Online Networking Event: Network & Engage with the Wheel
• 27 April, Workshop: Developing The Economy and Social Enterprise 
• 28 April, Webinar: EU funding for the cultural and creative sectors
• 28 April, EPA Lecture: The Role of Communications in Driving Climate Action
• 28 April, Conference: Water Ireland Conference
• 1 May, Webinar: Webinar for Applicants for the EPA Research Call 2022
• 4th May, Webinar: Ensuring an Inclusive Digital Transformation in the EU
• 4 May, Dublin: A Community Approach to Climate Change, Decarbonisation and SDGs
• 5-6 May, Conference: Social Economy, The Future of Europe
• 7th May, Festival: Treasure Town Kilcullen
• 10th May, Webinar: Making reuse the norm in Europe again
• 10 May, Workshop: Helping Communities Recover from the Covid-19 Pandemic 
• 11th May, Webinar: How can ICT enable Circular Economy Business Models?
• 11 May, Conference: Northern Ireland Housing Conference
• 12 May, Workshop:  Writing your EU Funding Application
• 14 – 22 May, Advocacy week: Cork Bike Week
• 19 May, Webinar: EU values across sectors
• 19 May, Dublin: Rural Connectivity & Sustainability
• 23 May, Webinar: Innovating Our Way Out of the Global Waste Crisis
• 24 May, Conference: LARAC Scotland
• 25 May, Conference: Irish Climate Summit 
• 25-26 May, Conference: Electronics Manufacturing Ireland
• 25 – 26 May, Conference: Research & Innovation Conference & Exhibition
• 1 June, Conference. The Wheel – Annual Summit 
• 8 June, Belfast: Digital Connectedness & Inclusion
• 9 June, Conference:  Public Procurement Conference 2022
• 9 June, Awards Ceremony: European Week for Waste Reduction 2022
• 16 June, Conference: ECOS Annual Conference
• 29-30 June, Conference: Energy Ireland 2022
• 14-15 September, Conference: Lets Recycle Live

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