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03, 2021
Vacancy – Bookkeeper
Irish Seed Savers have a vacancy for a bookkeeper, 20-25 hours per week. Key responsibilities include: Weekly management of Accounts Payable and Receivable Collating of sales receipts Financial reconciliation Departmental expenditure and all bank accounts Cashflow management Payroll For full details and how to apply please click HERE Deadline for applications is Monday 5th April [...]
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03, 2021
Vacancy for General Manager of Irish Seed Savers
Irish Seed Savers are seeking a suitably qualified candidate for the position of General Manager. We are seeking a person with the drive, passion and expertise, to help us develop our future strategy, connect more people to our work and to support our team and organisation in becoming a centre of excellence. Some key responsibilities [...]
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02, 2021
Online Community Seed Exchange 2021
The Irish Seed Savers Community Seed Exchange is one of our biggest events of the year where we invite individuals, gardening and community groups to come together and share / swop seeds. This event forms a large part of our ethos here at Irish Seed Savers, bringing communities together to promote biodiversity, share stories and to [...]
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02, 2021
Community Seed Guardian Programme Awardees Announced
Irish Seed Savers Association is delighted to announce that Ten Community Garden Groups have been awarded a place on the Community Seed Guardian Programme. Commencing on Friday 26th February, Irish Seed Savers will provide the ten selected community gardens training and mentoring in seed growing and seed saving with experienced facilitators, learning the steps to [...]
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02, 2021
Vacancy – Seed Packer & Sales Support Casual Worker
We have an exciting opportunity for suitably qualified candidate to join the Irish Seed Savers team. This important role exists to ensure that seed packing, product quality and stock levels are achieved and sustained during our busy periods. This position will additionally assist the seedbank and sales teams with fulfilling orders and other administrative duties [...]
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02, 2021
2021 marks the 30th anniversary since Irish Seed Savers began.
This is a chance to celebrate the journey so far and an opportunity to start building our future. To help make that future possible, we are asking everyone that values our work to support us by donating €30 at 30. This will enable us to run a year that will: • Continue to build on [...]
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01, 2021
Temporary Suspension of Seed Sales
Dear Supporter Happy New Year to you from all of us here at Irish Seed Savers. Thanks so much to those of you who have already sent in your seed orders, and especially to those of you who have taken the new step of ordering your seeds and gardening needs through our new website. We are delighted [...]
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10, 2020
Conservation, Food Security and Coronavirus
Before spring flourishes into life at Irish Seed Savers, we are usually finishing the cultivation of our gardens and orchards. Turning over green manures, tending to overwintering crops in the polytunnels, pruning our apple trees and setting up irrigation systems to ensure a successful growing season ahead. Unfortunately, just as we were about to get [...]
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09, 2020
How your donations help
Wayne Frankham is Regional Coordinator of the Seed Sovereignty programme in conjunction with The Gaia Foundation and runs a range of Seed Outreach initiatives for Irish Seed Savers. Wayne’s mission is to train community groups to grow and save their own seed and because of YOU, and your generous donations Wayne has been able to connect and train communities [...]
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02, 2020
Programme for Government for a climate and nature friendly future
Ireland’s leading environmental coalitions have called on all parties entering discussions to form the next Government to put biodiversity and climate breakdown front and centre in the next Dail. Writing to party leaders, the Irish Environmental Network and the Environmental Pillar have called on them to ensure that the next Programme for Government follows its [...]
