Notice of AGM (22 May) and workshops in Ennis, Dublin, Longford, Cork in June

Dear Member,

We hope that you will be able to join us for:

• Our AGM and discussion on social rights on 22 May in the Carmelite Centre, Dublin
• One of the four regional workshops in Ennis, Dublin, Longford and Cork in June

Both of these are important in planning how to respond to the current challenges and opportunities.

We look forward to seeing you there

Robin Hanan, Paul Ginnell, Maureen Gondipon

AGM registration form, motions and nomination form

Carmelite Centre

56 Aungier Street, Dublin

22 May 2015

10 am      AGM business: 10.00

11.30 am Workshop on a Rights Approach to Fighting Poverty.

1 pm          Lunch

The AGM is your opportunity to help plan our future work. You might like to consider standing for election to the Board and/or putting forward a motion for discussion.

This workshop will include a briefing on the concept of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights followed by responses on the implications for people working on the ground on (a) income and welfare and (b) housing and homelessness.

This will be followed by small group discussion on linking the workshop to our daily work against poverty.

Please register now on www.eapn.ie

EAPN Ireland and CAN workshops notice and registration forms

• Ennis 4 June
• Dublin (Bawnogue) 18 June
• Longford 23 or 24 June
• Cork 23 or 24 June

EAPN Ireland, in Partnership with Community Action Network (CAN) invites you to a workshop to reflect with others from your community on our passion for social justice, how we might connect more deeply with it and direct it more effectively.

We are all aware of new challenges to direct our work at social change now, not only because of cutbacks, but also because of less and less support for advocacy and social change work from the State and elsewhere. We need to be creative, and nurture our commitment to changing – not just managing – inequalities.

The workshop will afford time not only for personal reflection, but a chance to reconnect with models of change that might inspire us anew. It is not a strategic planning exercise, nor a time to simply complain about what is being done to us. Rather we hope it will be about motivation by connecting with why we do this work.

Please register now on www.eapn.ie