Supporting the Community

[Allan Kearns, Charity Committee Chairperson, Central Bnak of Ireland] Every day in the Central Bank, we as a community work to improve the welfare of society as a whole. We also believe that part of that is building communities. We aim to achieve this by supporting charities,and every two years we pick an amazing selection of charities to partner and we are delighted to introduce our five partner charities for 2026 and 2027.

[Andy Heffernan, Chief Executive Officer, Alzheimer Society of Ireland] The Alzheimer's Society of Ireland are over 43 years in existence now, founded by volunteers who recognised needs in their community when it came to supports for people living with dementia.

[Deirdre Walsh, Chief Executive Officer, Jack & Jill] Jack and Jill is an Irish registered children's charity that provides in-home nursing and respite care for children who are born with, or develop severe learning disabilities associated with complex medical needs. These are children who are typically tube fed, oxygen dependent, and maybe don't sleep.

[Stephanie Manahan, Chief Executive Officer, Pieta House] At Pieta we support those who have been impacted by suicidal ideation, self-harm and we support people have been bereaved by suicide. So all across the country we provide services 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

[Fergal Griffin, General Manager, Neurofibromatosis Association of Ireland] We support children and adults living with neurofibromatosis. NF is a genetic condition that affects around 1 in 2,400. It causes tumours to grow throughout the body. From your brain, your neck, your spine, all the way down to your toes. 

[Killian O'Kelly, Fundraising Partnership Lead, RNLI] As a lifeboat organisation based in Ireland we run 46 lifeboat stations on a 24/7  basis. Our volunteer crews, do extensive training. This support from the Central Bank will help fund that training.

At Central Bank of Ireland, we have always played a part in the community through volunteering and providing support for charities and a range of local organisations.

Social Responsibility Working Group

Established in 2022, our Social Responsibility Working Group supports and provides education, employability and employment programmes and initiatives in our local community in Dublin’s Docklands.

Our initiatives, which aim to support individuals from primary education level through to early careers and beyond, include a mixture of work with programme partners and community groups.

Social Responsibility Initiatives

Social Responsibilities Initiative

 

We support our people to volunteer in school programmes run by Junior Achievement Ireland.This national programme encourages young people, in both primary and second level education, to stay in education and helps them develop key skills in areas such as financial literacy, entrepreneurship, employability, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Our volunteers teach a variety of Junior Achievement programmes in schools, and we also support a mentoring initiative.  We encourage volunteers to invite their classes to visit the Central Bank where in-class learning is reinforced through participation in various workshops, interacting with volunteers, and finding out more about what we do.

We encourage staff to take part in the National College of Ireland’s Early Learning Initiative, which aims to help communities in Dublin’s Docklands through innovative parent and child-learning support programmes. These programmes enable children, young people and their families to develop the skills and knowledge to achieve their educational, career and life goals.

We collaborate with Dublin North East Inner City (NEIC)  to provide work experience placements to Transition Year (TY) students. The programmes provides students from local schools with opportunities to gain experience in corporate roles and settings they might not otherwise have access to. This is important experience in breaking down barriers and opening up office/professional work as an aspiration for the students.

We support Career LEAP (Local Employment Action Partnership) - an educational and work placement programme which provides work readiness training and work experience to support at-risk 18-25 years in the local community. As well as hosting work placements, we have also held the Career LEAP Graduation Ceremony, and regularly work to support the programme partners SWAN Youth and East Wall Youth.

Our Graduate Programme offers recent graduates an opportunity to commence their professional career with the Central Bank. We engage with schools in the Docklands area to encourage applications from local students and we are working on developing our early careers programmes focussed on developing employability from the local area.

We are proud to work with outstanding stakeholders and groups across Dublin’s Docklands Community, and have built strategic links with a number of local community groups and services. Through these groups, we provide a dedicated staff liaison officer and engagement opportunities to support the community partner’s work, including financial support and use of our Dublin Dockland Campus. Our Community Partners are:

Highlights and Events

Charity Committee

Our Charity Committee, made up of staff volunteers, manage the Committee’s annual budget, and encourages our people to get involved in charitable activities and events to raise money for good causes. The Central Bank Commission has approved an annual budget for the Charity Committee of €245,000 focused on three programmes: our Partner Charities, Matching Funds and Boardmatch.

Every two years we partner with five charities, chosen by our people. The partnership consists of a substantial financial donation each year and offers our people volunteering opportunities with the charity partners.

The Committee also donates funds to other charities through the “Matching Funds” programme. These funds are added to money our people raise to support charities

The Committee is partners with Boardmatch to sponsor trustees joining charity boards to strengthen their governance.

Our Partner Charities

Partner Charities

Volunteering

Serving the public interest is at the heart of the Central Bank’s purpose. We encourage our people  to volunteer, and we have a dedicated Volunteering Policy to support this.