Youth Theatre Ireland received funding from the Climate Actions Work Engagement fund to support their work to bring people together and share information on climate action.
The fund is focused on climate engagement, awareness and communications - helping communities to reach new audiences in their locality. It will also provide opportunities for community groups to promote their work and spread the message of community-led climate action.
Funding Youth Theatre Support Scheme
In this new strand, Youth Theatre Ireland Climate Action Training, our affiliated youth theatre members will work with leading Irish theatre makers, and pioneers in sustainable theatre practice, to help create a greener, more sustainable future in youth theatre.
It brings together some of the leading minds and changemakers working in Irish theatre, youth theatre, film, and youth work, to focus on sustainable practices in youth theatre.
Aims of Youth Theatre Ireland Climate Action Training:
- To educate young theatre makers in sustainable practices
- To bring young people together to collaborate on Climate Activism in an engaging way, that builds on their own passions, interests and needs.
- To share this practice with the wider youth theatre movement through a global platform.
The programme will be announced later in the summer with groups expected to take part in the programme later in 2025.
Community Foundation Ireland
The fund is administered by Community Foundation Ireland which as part of its mission of Equality For All in Thriving Communities has been empowering local groups, researchers and advocates to take action on climate and nature since 2000. The foundation's work in this space is informed by its 25 years' experience of partnering with 5,000 voluntary, community and charitable groups as a philanthropic hub. A network which continues to grow.
The fund is a core component of the Climate Actions Work Programme. This programme has built on engagement with community groups through the National Dialogue on Climate Action over the last few years. The engagement showed that many community groups and organisations are supported through volunteers who often have to give up nights and days to undertake engagement and communications activities. The fund is intended to provide support to promote the incredible work already underway, and to encourage new participation. The fund supports groups to work with audiences who have not previously engaged in climate action at a local level or beyond.
"Partnership is key to meeting the climate challenge. At Community Foundation we are proud to have contributed knowledge and insights from our network of local community groups to inform and deliver this Government initiative. A network which underpins all our work as a philanthropic hub. We look forward to seeing the impact of these imaginative projects." Denise Charlton, Chief Executive of Community Foundation Ireland
