Volunteers Needed for Red Cross Blackrok

nqemt

Hi All,
The Blackrock Branch of the Irish Red Cross, are urgently looking for volunteers, no experience needed as all training is provided for members.
It is hoped to restart the unit sometime later this month, September.

We meet in Our Lady of Mercy, National Convent School, just off Booterstown Avenue from 8.15 to 9.30pm on Tuesday nights.

All you need to join is 2 passport sized photos, 10 euro for adults (16+) or 5 euros for under 16's. The money is for membership and insurance.
For anyone wishing to drive for the Red Cross please bring a copy of your driving licence.

Most training is done at unit/branch level and some is done at regional/ area level. list of courses is: Occupational First Aid-Cardiac First Responder-Emergency First Responder and Emergency Medical Technician.
Practical and Intermediate First Aid.
Contact ircblackrock@gmail.com

msg11

nqemt wrote: »

Hi All,
The Blackrock Branch of the Irish Red Cross, are urgently looking for volunteers, no experience needed as all training is provided for members.
It is hoped to restart the unit sometime later this month, September.

We meet in Our Lady of Mercy, National Convent School, just off Booterstown Avenue from 8.15 to 9.30pm on Tuesday nights.

All you need to join is 2 passport sized photos, 10 euro for adults (16+) or 5 euros for under 16's. The money is for membership and insurance.
For anyone wishing to drive for the Red Cross please bring a copy of your driving licence.

Most training is done at unit/branch level and some is done at regional/ area level. list of courses is: Occupational First Aid-Cardiac First Responder-Emergency First Responder and Emergency Medical Technician.
Practical and Intermediate First Aid.
Contact ircblackrock@gmail.com

I would be interested in Driving, when is the next meet I will try make it out.

Oscail

Before you consider joining the Irish Red Cross you should inform yourself about the organisation and what really happens inside it especially with regards to its board members and what they get up to. There has been numerous scandals involving donor money, hidden bank accounts, bullying, and undeclared properties. Those responsible remain board members and continue to control the organisation. Many questions have been raised in Dail Eireann during 2009, 2010 and 2011 as well as a Prime Time investigation in late 2010. Read the following blog for all the details and history:

http://governancereformatirishredcross.blogspot.com

nqemt

In fairness to Oscail, there have been problems with the management in Red Cross headoffice, but that hasn't really affected the grass roots membeship and this detracts from the local volunteers who do sterling work in there local communities. There are problems with those in charge of all the voluntary organisations.

The local branches/units are not really effected by the contuned mention of scandals at national level and we are desparate for volunteers to continue the work we do.
First Aid and Community work, so if anyone has any spare time please read original post and feel free to come and join.

Oscail

Dear nqemt,

The problems of the Irish Red Cross are NOT, repeat NOT, head office related.

It is the outrageous and possibly corrupt behavior of board members, most of whom are Unit/Branch members that has so disgraced the name of the Irish Red Cross. And it is the local branch members who keep electing these people to the Board via elections for Central Council. The long suffering hard working Irish Red Cross staff in head office are then subjected to having to work under and report to these pathetically incompetent and negligent individuals. It is incredulous that the Vice Chairman, a unit and branch member from Tipperary, has not been thrown out of the organisation given his record to date. The reason for this is because branch members such as yourself think it has nothing to do with you. The reality is the exact opposite. Local members have a responsibility to demand these individuals are held to account. It is ONLY local members who can resolve this problem and have these fellow members removed. Look what happened to Noel Wardick, former staff and Head of Overseas Operations at Irish Red Cross, when he told the truth and demanded honesty and integrity. These board members fired him.

Im sure nqemt you are a dedicated and committed volunteer but by ignoring the problems your fellow members who serve on the board have caused you and your colleagues are sticking your head in the sand and remiss in your duties. And I repeat it is NOT a management problem at head office. It is a Board problem and this Board is made up of MEMBERS!!

Janet1986

I was in the redcross but i left :rolleyes:

pa990

Janet1986 wrote: »

I was in the redcross but i left :rolleyes:

any particular reason ?

nqemt

Olscail,
Maybe this thread is not the right forum for you to be posting on, whilst you have merit in what you say,this thread was started to recruit people for the branch/unit. If you have a beef with the Red Cross, why dont you post your anti Red Cross thread properly, has the the Red Cross offended you in ome way? or are you a dissastisfied member?
Why are you making it hard for people like me to recruit and do some decent work for our community. I do sympathise with your views and believe me I have left the society in the past over the way things were doe, but short of a coup or assanination, it takes time and we need fresh blood to help make the changes and get rid of the "Old Guard"

Janet1986

Too many people in it for themselves and what they can get out of it.

A trip to some of the poor countries is what's needed to bring them off their high horse and down to earth.

TylerIE

nqemt wrote: »

In fairness to Oscail, there have been problems with the management in Red Cross headoffice, but that hasn't really affected the grass roots membeship and this detracts from the local volunteers who do sterling work in there local communities.

Nqemt - your now deleted posts unfortunately have detracted from the work of the Red Cross as an organisation, and its stuff like what you put in those posts that gives your organisation a bad name. In light of that I cant see why you still post here.


Such material from someone claiming to represent the Red Cross would only have me discouraging people from joining the Irish Red Cross at all, and definitely not Blackrock unit.

You have advertised your unit, and under the same username made some highly unethical posts, and I had hoped my comments on the [now deleted] thread would cause you to rethink.