Moy Valley Resources IRD

28/05/2026

📣 Mayo Volunteer Centre is hiring a Community Volunteers Coordinator to help grow and support its Community Volunteers Programme across .

Does this sound like you? If yes, get in touch with Mayo Volunteer Centre at their details below.

Our sister organisation is doing wonderful work across the county with organisations and volunteers - this is a vibrant space to be involved in 😊

📣 WE’RE HIRING: Community Volunteers Co-ordinator 📣

Do you believe in the power of volunteering and community events? We’re looking for an enthusiastic and organised person to help grow and support our Community Volunteers Programme across Mayo.

This exciting role involves:
✅ Supporting festivals, sporting events, concerts, clean-ups and community activities
✅ Working with local organisations to develop volunteer opportunities
✅ Recruiting and supporting volunteers
✅ Delivering volunteer training and recognition events
✅ Helping create positive volunteering experiences across the county

The Community Volunteers Programme offers flexible, once-off and short-term volunteering opportunities, making it easier for people to get involved when it suits them.

If you’re passionate about community engagement, volunteering and making events happen, we’d love to hear from you!

📍 Based in Mayo
💼 Join a dynamic and community-focused team
🤝 Help connect people with meaningful volunteering opportunities

For more information and application details please visit: https://activelink.ie/vacancies/community/123983-mayo-volunteer-centre-community-volunteers-co-ordinator-part-time



Moy Valley Resources IRD Mayo North Tourism, Ireland Mayo North East South West Mayo Development Company CLG Le Cheile FRC Castlebar Volunteer Ireland The Mary Robinson Centre Mayo Community Futures Mayo Public Participation Network - PPN

27/05/2026

📣 The Board of Moy Valley Resources IRD wishes to announce that CEO Annette Maughan will depart her position at the end of June after fifteen years of service in the community development company.

Annette joined the organisation in 2010 as Community
Employment Supervisor, became Operations Officer at Greenhills Enterprise Centre in 2016, and has been CEO since 2019.

IRD North Mayo West Sligo CLG operating as Moy Valley Resources is a community-led initiative that operates in the North Mayo/West Sligo area. Over the last thirty-six years since its establishment in 1990, it has helped to develop the North Mayo/West Sligo region in the areas of rural regeneration, enterprise growth, social inclusion and employment activation. It has supported community groups and projects, local enterprises and individuals through providing services, expertise, information, advocacy and working in partnership.

During her time with the organisation, Annette played a central role in supporting individuals on their pathway to employment, overseeing the management and development of the Greenhills Enterprise Centre in Ballina, the Quay Business Centre and the company’s industrial centres. She also provided leadership and support to all of the core company programmes including Craoibhín Ballina, Mayo Volunteer Centre, Mayo North Tourism, Ireland, Community Employment and LEADER. A strong advocate for partnership and collaboration, Annette worked closely with organisations across the region to help deliver major projects and events throughout her 15-year tenure such as IQ Ballina, the Ballina 2023 celebrations, the West of Ireland Women's Mini Marathon, and the Ballina Salmon Festival - Mayo. Her commitment to supporting enterprise, community development and regional sustainability has made a lasting impact on Moy Valley Resources and the wider North Mayo region.

Annette has been an exceptional and highly supportive colleague and CEO, recognised for her unwavering commitment to community development and her active involvement across a wide range of local and regional committees and initiatives. She brought an energetic, approachable and compassionate leadership style to her role, fostering strong relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and community partners alike. A firm believer in collaboration and partnership, Annette consistently championed the empowerment and development of others throughout her career. Her commitment to creating a positive, inclusive and supportive working environment within Moy Valley Resources leaves a lasting legacy of which she can be immensely proud.

On behalf of everyone in the company, the Board thanks Annette wholeheartedly for her service to the organisation and the community in North Mayo/West Sligo, for the rich achievements during her time here, and wishes her every success and fulfilment in her next chapter.

Go raibh maith agat, a Annette. Go n’éirí an bóthar leat.

26/05/2026

Kennedy Glasgow House is a charming, historic building at the Quay, Ballina.

This large, lovingly refurbished space is available for venue hire for events.

Whether a business conference, team meeting, volunteer, sporting, educational or local fair, information day, awards ceremony or training event, wedding, get-together, personal milestone, social dancing, yoga classes, Kennedy Glasgow House can accommodate.

It stretches along the banks of the Moy Estuary and one can glimpse streams of bobbing boats through its windows. This location is stunning at all times of the year and particularly striking in the sunshine ☀️ 🌤️ 💦 💦 😎

✨ ✨ Virtual visit ✨ ✨
Feel like a visit? Explore this space and its facilities, including kitchen, as if you were there:

https://moyvalley.ie/venue-hire/

(Navigate to the bottom of that webpage)

To book Kennedy Glasgow House House, please contact Moy Valley Resources at (096) 70905.

26/05/2026

🤩 🤩 Mayo North Tourism, Ireland is consistent in its high quality, consistent promotion of North Mayo and West Sligo as a year-round tourist destination.

It is a treasure of our region.

🥳 🥰 Congratulations for reaching a milestone like 1 million views on Instagram over the last 30 days (and 41.5K likes, comments, and shares)! You have achieved these types of figures before we know.

Well done to Mairéad, Fiona, Clara and Maryna, the amazing Mayo North Tourism, Ireland team.

It's something to be both hugely proud about and to recognise its value because Mayo North Tourism, Ireland is an independent, not-for-profit, community-led organisation.

In fact, they are well placed to tell the stories of North Mayo and West Sligo as they come from the grassroots, are based in the community and are close to the tourist providers and local people who give this region its flavour and its welcome.

Thank you to Mairéad and team, to the Members of Mayo North Tourism, Ireland, to the local people, to those who read their posts on social media and to those who are excited to come to our region.

Moy Valley Resources IRD is proud to support Mayo North Tourism, Ireland from its beginnings 13 years ago. Continued success and thank you!

25/05/2026

The first Mayo Public Participation Network - PPN Linkage Group got underway last week. Congratulations to all involved!

Mayo Public Participation Network - PPN now invites you to the:

First meeting of:
🟢 Community, Integration, & Recreation Linkage Group 🟢
📆 This Thursday, 28th May
🕢 7:00pm
💻 Online

It invites members of the community, who are also Mayo PPN members, to join the meeting. This is an opportunity to work together to develop policies that can create change throughout Mayo.

TO REGISTER FOR THE MEETING:
Scan the QR code in the Mayo Public Participation Network - PPN post below or follow the link to register for Thursday’s meeting, or any of the upcoming Linkage Group Meetings.
https://mayoppn.ie/linkage-groups/

20/05/2026

Mayo Volunteer Centre introduces us this week to many of the persons of all ages and professions who give of their time and energy to make a difference in the community.

💁 Meet Levi.

He tells us how he got involved in volunteering and what it means to him.

19/05/2026

📣 It's here - the first Mayo Public Participation Network - PPN Linkage Group Meeting is this Thursday, 21st May at 7pm. Please register using the details below and see you there!

It is a 🌿🐞Climate Change and Environment Linkage Group 🐞🌿 meeting to honour the fact that this is National Biodiversity Week

DETAILS OF FIRST MEETING:
📆 Thursday, 21 May
🕚 at 7pm
🌎 Online

HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE MEETING:
Scan the QR in the Mayo Public Participation Network - PPN post below or follow the link for more information and to register for one or more Linkage Groups meetings. You are welcome to attend as many as you’d like.
https://mayoppn.ie/linkage-groups/

Are you a Mayo Public Participation Network - PPN member?

Linkage meetings are new initiatives starting this year. If you are a member of the community and a member of Mayo Public Participation Network - PPN, you can register to take part in a Linkage Group.

Each group will link with a specific Mayo County Council Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) where the PPN is being represented.

Linkage Group meetings will focus on:
- Climate Change & Environment;
- Community, Integration & Recreation;
- Roads & Sustainable Travel;
- Planning & Corporate Development; and Housing.

The Linkage groups help like-minded community members to work together to develop policies that can bring meaningful change across the Mayo.

Sign up to a Linkage Group! See you there! ✨ ✨ ✨

Your Voice Matters – Register, Join Us & Be Heard

In keeping with the theme of National Biodiversity Week, we invite PPN members to the first Climate Change and Environment Linkage Group meeting on Thursday the 21st of May at 7pm.

Linkage Group meetings will be focused on the areas of: Climate Change & Environment; Community, Integration & Recreation; Roads & Sustainable Travel; Planning & Corporate Development; and Housing.

Scan the QR code or follow the link for more information and to register for one or more Linkage Groups meetings. You are welcome to attend as many as you’d like.
https://mayoppn.ie/linkage-groups/

Join like-minded community members as we work together to develop policies that can influence meaningful change across the county.

Mayo.ie Mayo County Council Mayo County Library Mayo Environmental Network Mayo Community Futures Mayo North East South West Mayo Development Company CLG Birdwatch Ireland Mayo Branch Wild Nephin National Park - Páirc Náisiúnta Néifinne Fiáine Mayo Dark Skies Circus250 Westport Eco-Congregation Leave No Trace Ireland Coastal Communities for Climate Action CALL: Climate Action Louisburgh Locality Lough Carra Bertra Connected Irish Environmental Network What's on mayo National Biodiversity Week Bangor Erris Women's Biodiversity Group

19/05/2026

📸 Do you have a great, funny, moving, nice, lovely or precious photo featuring an experience of in ?

Mayo Volunteer Centre would love to hear from you! If you are a volunteer, community group, charity, club or organisaton in Mayo, would you like to contribute to their Calendar 2027?

🥰 Photo Guidelines from Mayo Volunteer Centre:
• High-quality images (landscape or portrait)
• Real volunteering moments in Mayo
• Open to individuals and organisations
• Please ensure permission has been given by anyone featured in the photo
📩 Submit your photos to: [email protected]
🗓 Submission deadline: November 2nd 2026

Send on the photo and ensure that those special moments live on in the calendar and reach lots of people.

📸 CALL FOR PHOTO SUBMISSIONS 📸

Mayo Volunteer Centre is inviting volunteers, community groups, charities, clubs, and organisations across the county to take part in our upcoming 2027 Calendar!

We’re looking for photographs that capture the spirit of volunteering across Mayo - people helping people, community events, environmental action, sport, arts, youth work, befriending, fundraising, and those everyday moments that make a difference.

Whether it’s a candid moment at an event, a group project, or a simple act of kindness, we want to showcase the incredible impact volunteers have in our communities every day.

📅 Selected photographs will feature in the Mayo Volunteer Centre 2027 Calendar.

📷 Photo Guidelines:
• High-quality landscape or portrait images
• Real volunteering moments in Mayo
• Open to individuals and organisations
• Please ensure permission has been given by anyone featured in the photo

📩 Submit your photos to: [email protected]
🗓 Submission deadline: November 2nd 2026

Let’s celebrate the people who make Mayo stronger through volunteering.

18/05/2026

❤️ Volunteers

18/05/2026

🤩 🤩 National Volunteering Week has started today!

It runs until Sunday, 24th May.

Throughout this week, we celebrate volunteers in and throughout Ireland who give their time, talent and energy to make our communities warmer, more vibrant places while gaining friends and developing their own potential.

Thank you to all the people in Mayo from every corner who give their time to volunteer for causes they love.

Mayo Volunteer Centre has a very special event coming up this Friday, 22nd May in .

It will officially launch a new six-part short documentary series celebrating the remarkable contribution of volunteers and community groups across Mayo at a special event in Ballina Arts Centre.

✉️ You are cordially invited to attend the launch of the new 6 part documentary series:
📆 Friday, 22nd May 2026
🕚 11am-1pm
🏡 Ballina Arts Centre

🎉🎉 To register for this event, please email Vincent McHale at [email protected].

The series will be officially launched by Dara Calleary TD, Minister for Social Protection and Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht.

The series, filmed by acclaimed video producer Thady Kavanagh, features six projects based in Mayo communities: The Friends of St Joseph’s Hospital (Ballina); the Foróige Mentoring Project (countywide); Mayo Autism Camp (Manulla); Mayo Super Knitters (Ballina); Mayo Community Volunteers (St Coleman’s, Achill); and The Global Kitchen (Ballina).

Each mini-documentary shares the story of how volunteers worked together with Volunteer Involving Organisations, supported by Mayo Volunteer Centre, to contribute their time, knowledge and energy to deliver and enrich the initiatives.

Read more about this very exciting new series here: https://moyvalley.ie/mayo-volunteer-centre-new-documentary-series/

🎉 National Volunteering Week has officially begun! 🎉

This week, we celebrate the incredible volunteers who give their time, energy, skills, and kindness to make our communities stronger every single day. 💙

From supporting local events and community groups to helping neighbours, sports clubs, charities, schools, and organisations — volunteers are at the heart of it all.

Throughout the week, we’ll be sharing stories, highlights, and opportunities to get involved as we celebrate the power of volunteering and the people who make a difference.

To every volunteer: thank you for everything you do. 👏

12/05/2026

🌿 🌿 Did you know that today, 12th May, is the International Day of Plant Health?

🌎 Our friends at The Mary Robinson Centre remind us that plants provide 98% of the oxygen we breathe and 80% of the food we eat.

We are totally dependent on vegetation for our survival and wellbeing. We interact in profound interconnection with plants - our systems and bodies recognise this. (But do our minds realise this in our world governed by so many preoccupations?)

📆 The Mary Robinson Climate and Nature Conference 2026 takes place on 9–10 July in Ballina, Co. Mayo.

Its theme is "Food and Care: A Meitheal for Our Time".

🌿 The Mary Robinson Centre invites you to check out its website page for the conference. You will find details on ticket information, accessibility, and how to apply for a stall at the farmers' market.
🔗 Link: www.maryrobinsoncentre.ie

🌱 May 12 is the International Day of Plant Health. The Mary Robinson Centre marks this day with a simple truth. Ninety eight percent of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants. Eighty percent of the food we eat is provided by plants. Yet we lose up to 40 percent of global crops to pests and diseases every year. That loss affects farmers, families, and futures.

🛡️ Plant biosecurity is not a distant concept. It is how we protect our fields, our food, and our shared home. Healthy plants mean healthy people, thriving biodiversity, and stronger communities.

🌾 This work is at the very heart of our upcoming Mary Robinson Climate and Nature Conference 2026, taking place on 9–10 July in Ballina, Co. Mayo. Under the theme Food and Care: A Meitheal for Our Time, we will gather farmers, scientists, activists, artists, and community workers as equals. Together we will ask what becomes possible when we listen to one another, especially those who tend the soil.

🌿 We invite you to check out our website page for the conference. You will find details on ticket information, accessibility, and how to apply for a stall at the farmers' market.

🔗 Link: www.maryrobinsoncentre.ie

💚 On this International Day of Plant Health, let us remember that caring for plants is caring for each other. Protect the roots. Protect the future.

🌻