Volunteering Ireland (Volunteer Ireland)
Lobbying activity
The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.
Email (1)
email following up on our previous letter regarding Budget 2020, attaching a copy of our pre-budget submission, and requesting a meeting to discuss the submission and other key areas of concern relating to volunteering.
(Meetings filed separately as part of the Sept-December period)
Submission (1)
Our pre-budget submission seeks:
Increases in funding of the Volunteer Infrastructure to bring all Volunteer Centres up to an independently identified minimum necessary to function.
Funding for current Volunteer Information Services to be converted into Volunteer Centres.
Establishing a bursary grant for the volunteer programmes of small volunteer involving organisations.
Further development of the national volunteering database, I-Vol.
Designated public officials lobbied
The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.