The Moto of the Twilight Community Group is Communities are Stronger Together and this was on show for all to see over St Patrick days festival. The progressive Community group had their partners from right across Europe and beyond in the city for 5 wonderful days to showcase Kilkenny to the world. The third and …
DAVID Project gaining followers across Ireland
The great news from the Diversity Awareness Visibility Inclusion Development (DAVID) Team is the traction the programme is gaining with not just the LGBTQAI+ Communities but their families, friends and colleagues across Ireland. The young vibrant team that Inclusion Officer Stephen Mungovan has developed are making contacts directly with the Student Union bodies and the …
Twilight Community Group’s DAVID Project
AS previously mentioned our DAVID project by our Kilkenny-based Community group, plans to tackle social issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community by developing peer-led mental health support groups, access to information, and exciting conversations. The following is a brief over view of the projects objectives and how through Workshops, Peer Support and an innovative approach creating …
DAVID: Twilight’s LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Project
The Twilight Community Group has initiated a new Diversity Awareness Visibility Inclusion Development programme (DAVID) specifically aimed at supporting members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Funding for the project was received from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth. In issuing the funding Minister Roderic O’ Gorman TD complimented Twilight on the breadth of …
Communicating EU Programme
Over the past number of months, the Twilight Community group conducted a number of interviews with prominent people in Irish society. The objective of the exercise was to talk to the People who now live in Ireland and discuss what they see is available to them and are we the country of one hundred thousand …
Eyes Down to Buckle your Shoe but! Heads up for Out and about!
It is now time to get the ball rolling again for our senior members of society. Yes! let us open the front door, back door and windows of our houses and let the fresh air not only fill all the rooms of the house but blow away the cobwebs that gather in both our lungs …
‘Its Life Jim, but not as we know it!’
During months of ‘the Pandemic’ the way we went to the doctor changed dramatically. We didn’t get to see him face to face. No thermometer placed in your mouth and for us men no finger where the sun doesn’t shine! And that was the only welcoming relief. It seems science has now developed away for …
It’s never too late to start something New
As one year ends another one starts. As always, we make or New Years’ resolutions, or as I like to call it our to do list for the first week of the new year, but it also the time went regardless of our age or physical wellness we look to future with the optimism as …
New Kilkenny group Project DAVID launched to support LGBTQ+ community
The project was established to address a lack of visibility around the LGBTQ+ community in rural Ireland. TOP NEWS12 JANUARY, 2022. WRITTEN BY OISIN KENNY. The Kilkenny-based Project DAVID plans to tackle social issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community by developing peer-led mental health support groups, access to information, and exciting conversations. Project DAVID (Diversity Awareness Visibility Inclusion …
DAVID Project
What is DAVID? DAVID stands for Diversity , Advancement, Visibility, Inclusion, Development. This project is designed for our LGBTQAI+ Communities. The project will be developed and designed to initiate inclusive dialogue and promote community awareness utilising our digital hub, creative workshops, our Youth inclusive forum and the LGBTI+ inclusion team. All activities in this co-production …