Making your VOICE heard on the Irish environment

Happy  New Year to all of our readers!

If finding a new role is one of your new year resolutions, you may be interested in a vacancy with the Sustainable Water Network (SWAN).

SWAN is an umbrella network of twenty five of Ireland’s leading environmental groups working together on water policy issues. The role of the Network, Administration & Policy Support Officer is to assist the SWAN Coordinator in ensuring the smooth running of the SWAN office; to provide support to our member organisations; to facilitate smooth and effective communication amongst member organisations and between member organisations and other bodies and to assist with the delivery of advocacy plans and policy research projects.

For more details, visit SWAN’s website.

As 2011 draws to a close, VOICE would like to thank all of our supporters and members for their support throughout the year.

It was a busy year that kicked off with work on the Climate Change Bill before  work began on the General Election. We drew up a Doorstepping Guide for Candidates and carried out an analysis of the new Programme for Government.

We then moved onto household waste workshops in local communities, an appearance on TV3 talking about illegal dumping and an article about food waste for TheJournal.ie

Since then, we ‘ve been busy behind the scenes working on policy consultations on household waste collection, Rio+20 and the EU ETS Phase III to name but a few! We even made it into the national papers when we responded to Phil Hogan decided an Irish Climate Change Law wasn’t a priority.

But none of this would be possible without your support, and the support of people like you. So a very big thank you to all of our supporters.

Wishing you a happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

The VOICE Team