CAN and the Wheel are delighted to announce that the Transformative Leadership Programme 2024/2025 is now open for applications! Real leadership is all about change – about possessing the right array of skills, abilities and knowledge to be able to bend the arc of history towards justice. The Wheel’s Transformative Leadership Applied Practice Programme focuses on…

We have had a busy first half of 2024. A sample of our work in May and June: Leadership Development Transformative Leadership Level 8 Certificate with The Wheel and Maynooth University concluded with 17 senior leaders in the Community and Voluntary Sector reporting significant learning and encouragement with other participants in the group, exploration of…

CAN was delighted to facilitate the launch of Lives on Hold and Trapped in Treatment reports on  Feb 27th at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. These two reports detail the process and findings of two collaborative peer led research programmes facilitated by Community Action Network (CAN) plus an analysis of the findings by…

In January 2024, Cecilia Forrestal presented CAN’s reflections on Driving Systemic Change to a cohort of non-profits participating in Lightful’s BRIDGE programme. These organisations are all current grantees of Community Foundation and are all working to counter polarisation, hate and misinformation online. You can read more on CAN’s Systemic Change work here.

CAN has partnered with the Longford Primary Health Care Team and the Irish Network against Racism to deliver a learning programme that will equip those who take part to challenge and address racism at personal, institutional and structural levels and to become leaders in their own minority ethnic communities. At this first information meeting we…

Cecilia Forrestal from CAN joins in the celebration of 25 years of the Collective Complaint Protocol of the Revised European Social Charter in this video made by the Council of Europe to mark the occasion. In it, she outlines the power of the Collective Complaint to make rights real for people who live with inequality.