WHO Theme: Community Support And Health Services
Health & Wellbeing Theme: Staying Connected
Funding Stream: Community Resilience Fund Covid
Resources Required: Financial, Paid Staff
Cost: 0-500
Description
Showcasing volunteer work and initiatives. County Wicklow PPN worked with garden county radio to highlight work that voluntary groups were doing to provide services to the community during covid. Lynsey Dolan prerecorded interviews with volunteers regarding their projects and initiatives. This was then aired on the radio the following day. The interviews are now in podcast form so there is a radio history of how wicklow communities have galvanised to support the most vulnerable members of their local communities
Aim of Initiative
Who is it aimed at
all age groups but particularly older members of society who were isolated and cocooning
Steps critical to success
- all age groups but particularly older members of society who were isolated and cocooning
- contacts
- volunteers
Challenges in Planning / Delivery
- timeframes
- nil
- nil
Outcomes / Benefits
- living history of the pandemic and wicklows response
- nil
- nil