24/12/2025
What. A. Year. (Photos Staged 💓)
If 2025 had a theme for PsyCare Ireland: Welfare and Harm Reduction CLG, it would be growth with soul. We’re still catching our breath after what’s been our biggest, boldest, and most beautiful year yet.
✅ We became a registered charity.
✅ We trained 60 new volunteers.
✅ We welcomed new core team members and two new Trustees/Directors.
✅ We hired our first two staff members.
✅ We delivered services at 14 events and supported 789 guests.
✅ We joined and the National Rural Safety Forum.
✅ We were named with actions in the National Rural Safety Plan.
✅ We graduated from the .ie Impact Programme.
✅ We won the AIB Community Fund, The Pobal Social Enterprise Scale Up Grant and held our third annual benefit concert.
✅ We won 81K from the Department of Justice for our National Nightlife Safety Programme (NITE).
✅ We adopted our first formal organisational chart.
✅Established new internal leads and teams for Logistics, Volunteer Engagement, Wellbeing, Decorations and Social Media.
From festival fields to student campuses, we showed up in force, bringing expert care, radical compassion, and deep listening to people in moments of crisis and vulnerability.
We proudly delivered services at:
Otherside Festival (x2 Paddy's Day/Halloween)
Éalú Le Grá
D8 In the Garden (x3 Nights)
District X (x2 Nights)
The Works
Body & Soul: A Wake
IYKYK Festival
Rewild Festival
Fuinneamh Festival
DCU Students’ Christmas Celebration
Behind every one of those events were more than 150 dedicated volunteers—real-life legends—who gave their time, skills, and hearts to make these services possible. We see you. We honour you.
We also want to send massive thanks to all the festival organisers, partners, and stakeholders who welcomed us, worked with us, and believed in the power of compassionate crisis support. You are changing the landscape of Irish events.
To everyone who’s backed PsyCare—whether by volunteering, funding, partnering, or spreading the word—you’ve helped us save lives, reduce harm, and bring light into some of the darkest moments.
We’re just getting started. Here’s to a safer 2026
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