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Dust down your Speedos, it's June

Blog: Our May news round-up.

Article by : SpunOut.ie

Monthly newsletter: The heart of SpunOut.ie

SpunOut.ie is a youth-led national organisation empowering young people to create personal and social change.

Hello and happy June folks!
 
Dust down the cobwebs from your flip flops and Speedos! The Irish summer is upon us once again and SpunOutters across the nation are  ready to do some serious relaxing. We feel the full force of the dark winter months is behind us and so we believe some fun and sun simply must be on the menu! We hope June brings you new light, re-energising you for the months ahead.

 

Highlights from the month of May:

May was a big month for us, what with winning two huge awards, featuring on national and regional media and launching our new email update ‘reWire’.  

  • We picked up a brilliant Irish Internet Association / Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary Award winning the ‘Social Contribution Category. Thanks to all of you who voted for us! Here’s a photo of Ruairí picking up the goods. 
  • SpunOut.ie featured on the national and regional media as a result of our campaign ‘Ireland facing wasted generation of young people’. We were featured as the main news story on 2fm along with many others such as Newstalk, 4fm, UK Mirror, i102 radio, Ocean FM, Highland radio, WLM and tons more. 
  • SpunOutters made an impressive splash at the Young Social Innovators event. The YSI is Ireland’s largest social awareness and active citizenship education programme. We chatted to, filmed and met many brilliant and inspiring young people. Check out the videos here! 
  • We attended the excellent Carnegie UK Trust/Atlantic Philanthropies event 'Marginalising Dissent'. This much needed and timely event featured contributions from Niall Crowley (Ex Equality Authority), Jack O'Connor (Siptu), Sr. Stan (Young Social Innovators/Immigrant Council/Focus Ireland) and South African activist Kumi Naidoo. 
  • We received great news that SpunOut.ie volunteer Thomas Atcha received Subsidiary Protection from the Department of Justice following a lengthy and difficult Asylum process. SpunOut.ie will be working hard to ensure no other young people fall between the cracks like this again. 
  • We ran a 'Be Your Own Superman' competition featuring Clare Mulvany's super 'One Wild Life' book which inspires people to make a positive difference during their lifetime. You can still win a copy of this fantastic book. Enter now!

 

Inspiring SpunOut.ie frontpage campaigns:

All frontpage campaigns are a collective team effort and we strive to make them as strong as can be, inspiring young people to take action and do something positive! Each campaign highlighted an issue of importance to young people. Click on each link to find an article from each campaign. This month featured:

 

Light your fire! Take control – the revolution starts today.

 

 

 

I am Superman ..... Be a change-maker!

 

 

SpunOut.ie is a positive force... Just some of our feedback from SpunOutters this month:

 ‘’All your suggestions were really helpful and I thank you for the help. I really appreciate that, it was really helpful.’’

‘’Logging on to SpunOut makes my day already, so your email replies are really like icing on the cake!’’

‘’Do you guys know how cool you are? SpunOut is defo a fave in my school.’’

‘’ahh thanks!! Well It was ye guyz [SpunOut]who inspired me!’’

‘thanks for being there for me, this forum has been a great outlet for me’’

 

Discussion forum threads of the month:


Articles of the month:

 

And finally...

We're sad to announce that our amazing Youth Participation person, the brilliant Emily Lindenmuth, will be leaving SpunOut.ie at the end of June. During her time with SpunOut.ie, Emily has spearheaded a range of youth media, outreach and internship programmes as well as the recent 'Our Stories' publication. Please join us in wishing her good luck and thanks as she gets ready for her next adventure.

That's all for this month folks. It's been a great year so far for SpunOut.ie and we're looking forward to a summer of fun, festivals and frolics. We'll be back to you with another update later in the summer. In the meantime 'Tóg go bóg é' and may the force be with you!

If you have any feedback, comments, suggestions or ideas please be sure to get in touch with us by emailing info@SpunOut.ie.

We're particularly keen to get ideas and support on fundraising, website redevelopment and active citizenship programmes. Thanks again and take care.

Your SpunOut.ie HQ crew.
Susan, Eoghan, Anna, Ruairí, Emily, William and Ian.
 
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