This week Ruth chats to Anna Kierans from Irish Red Cross about their Community Sponsorship programme in Galway. Since 2018 the Irish Red Cross have been involved in supporting and enabling individuals in a community to come together to provide...

This week Ruth chats to Denise Healy about her Befriending support role in Alone. Denise shares her personal insights into why she got involved with the charity and what she gets out of it including the ongoing support from the organisation.

This week Ruth chats to Brian Curtin, Volunteer Manager with FoodCloud. FoodCloud is a social enterprise with a mission to tackle food waste by redistributing surplus food from manufacturers and retailers to local charities in the community.&nb...

In this week’s episode we chat to Susan Hewitt, a volunteer fosterer with local Galway dog adoption and rescue charity MADRA. Susan chats to us about her work and her delight at being nominated for a Volunteer Ireland award this year.For...

In this episode we hear from Lorraine Lally and Marian Moloney, two members of Access for All Galway, a network of individuals who have lived experience of disabilities and local disability organisations focusing on improving access and rights ...

In this week's episode Ruth chats to to Jakub Kostanski and Joseph Burke, two members of Youth Work Ireland Galway’s Youth Advisory Committee. We hear their current views on community and their insights and personal experiences on the impact of...

This week Ruth chats to Darren Bayliss, National Co-ordinator of Coder Dojo.  Darren’s shares his own journey in starting out as a volunteer ten years ago as well as what he considers to be the secret formula to success not just for young ...

In this episode we speak to Kay Synott, an organic horticulturalist, gardener and educator from Moycullen about what is happening to our natural world where we live, and what we all can do about it.   One of the ways you can ma...

In this week’s episode Ruth chats to Rachel Maher and Danni Burke from Galway Community Café, a new out of hours mental health service in Galway city. Rachel and Danni are both peer connectors with the service and talk about how and why the ser...

This week Donncha speaks to Barry Dillon, Programme Manager with Venture Out Wilderness Project.   Venture Out is a charity  that provides outdoor activity based mental health and well-being, and personal development focused intervent...

This week Ruth chats to Paul, Aggie, and Victoria from the Vincent’s team about the work of the charity, the role that charity shops play in our community and the impact and upsurge of donations over lockdown as they open their doors this Chris...

Breathing in New Life- the quality of your breath can determine the quality of your life- This week Ruth chats to local yoga teacher Sinéad Mc Kiernan about her own personal journey towards wellness after experiencing chronic an...

 This week Ruth chats to local Salthill-based fitness instructor Eoin O'Donnellan on the mental health benefits of staying active and carving out some 'You Time' in the week. With a variety of group activities from choir singing to working...

This week Ruth chats to Laura and Evelyn, two NUIG students who are organising and taking part in a month long challenge of getting into the sea every single day for November to raise money for a local mental health charity. Now it...

In this episode we had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Brendan ‘Speedie’ Smith about an amazing new initiative he is kick-starting to make Galway a National Park City.  I speak to him a little bit about his previous community activity...

On this show Donncha speaks to Sue Redmond, who is, amongst many other things, an experienced teacher in meditation and mindfulness practice.  We take a look at the benefits of meditation, some of the myths around in, and Sue gives some pr...

Yes we can! - a message from Galway International Arts Festival Volunteer manager Carly Zimmerman who speaks to Ruth this week about the newly launched GIAF Autumn programme and how the festival has adapted and continued to move forward ...

This week Ruth chats to Fionn Kiely who is a volunteer mentor with Big Brother Big Sister here in Galway. Fionn chats about his experience of being a Big Brother for almost five years and why he would recommend the programme to anyone thinking ...

This week Ruth chats to Aisling Colreavy, coordinator with GAP. Aisling tells us about the extent of GAP’s work for families in Galway, the importance of listening when it comes to inclusion and how their plans for summer activities are current...

This week Ruth chats with Islammiyah Saudique from Amdalah Africa Foundation - AMDAF,  on their work with African women in the local community, their mission and how they have adapted during the Covid 19 crisis. Links&...

This week we focus on An Mheitheal Rothar, a social enterprise that focusses on bike recycling, training cyclists in bike maintenance and encouraging cycling as a sustainable way of life.The enterprise have just recently moved to a new p...

In this week’s episode Ruth chats to Dave O’ Leary Rider Liaison Officer and Sharon Conroy former Controller and Social Media Manager with Blood Bike West. This entirely volunteer led service has been operating throughout the current pandemic, ...

In this episode Ruth talks to Lochlann Scott, CEO of Helplink, a Galway based mental health charity that provides accessible, free or low cost mental health services to the public both locally, nationally, and internationally. Helplink have dev...

In this episode Ruth chats to Geraldine Ryan, manager of COPE Galway's Community Catering service about their work in feeding the most vulnerable in our community during the COVID 19 Crisis.You can also hear Ruth chatting to 2 of COPE v...

In this episode Ruth talks to Mairead Geehan and Felicity Geraghty, who have been doing trojan work helping COPE Galway with their Community Catering service cooking the food and delivering meals to the most vulnerable in our community during t...