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To access one of the Websites below please click on the web address coloured green. Social Justice Ireland - socialjustice.ie Working to build a just society where human rights are respected, human dignity is protected, human development is facilitated and the environment is respected and protected. National Board for Safe Guarding Children in the Catholic Church - www.safeguarding.ie This national office provides a team of experienced, skilled and highly motivated staff, creating a central advisory and support resource for safeguarding practice in the Catholic Church in Ireland. It advises and assists Dioceses and Congregations in the introduction of the structures proposed by the Standards and Guidance document. Veritas Publishers - www.veritas.iePublish a wide range of titles in a number of categories, such as theology, scripture, prayer, spirituality, parenting, counseling, liturgical resources and social issues. Our retail outlets throughout the country stock a wide range of titles in the areas of psychology, Mariology, and homiletics. We also publish religious education textbooks for primary and post-primary schools, as well as the Irish Catholic Directory and the Liturgical Calendar each year. Irish Missionary Union - www.imu.ieThe Irish Missionary Union is at the service of its membership in a great variety of ways. Apart from providing an invaluable secretarial service to the members at home and overseas, they also support and facilitate a great deal of mutual sharing and networking of resources and knowledge gained through experience. Misean Cara - www.miseancara.ie Misean Cara works to bring about transformation through supporting missionary organisations and their partners, who are involved in promoting poverty eradication, education, health care, social justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and inter-religious collaboration. International Union of Superiors General - www.uisg.org UISG is a worldwide, canonically approved organization of superiors general of institutes of Catholic women religious. The purpose of UISG is to promote an understanding of religious life. Their web site provides information for UISG members, all women religious and others interested in the life and the mission of Catholic Sisters. Irish Catholic Bishops Conference - www.catholicbishops.ie The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference is the assembly of the Bishops of Ireland exercising together certain pastoral offices for the people. Working for a just world. Trócaire works with people to bring about positive and lasting changes in some of the world’s poorest places. Its programmes are carried out with partner organisations so local people drive the whole process and, in turn, their own development. CEIST - Catholic Education an Irish Schools Trust - www.ceist.ie Five Catholic Religious Congregations engaged in post primary education for over three and a half centuries – Daughters of Charity, Presentation Sisters, Sisters of the Christian Retreat, Sisters of Mercy, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart – have, in the spirit of their Founders, together established CEIST – Catholic Education, an Irish Schools Trust, thus providing a new moral and legal trustee framework enabling their schools to continue to offer post-primary Catholic education into the future as a viable option and as an integral part of the Irish school system. Le Chéile - Schools Trust - www.lecheiletrust.ie The Le Chéile Schools Trust comprises the schools of thirteen religious congregations. The aim of the Trust, which came into existence in September 2009, is to carry on the legal, financial and inspirational role of trusteeship. Currently it is responsible for 47 voluntary secondary schools and is the trustee in 8 Community Schools. Association of Bursars of Religious of Ireland - www.lpgroup.ie The Association of Bursars work with L&P Financial Trustees, which is an international consultancy company. It provides services to charities, trusts and religious congregations. L&P provide specialised advice relating to the financial, personnel, investment, legal and property aspects of administering charities and trusts. It advises and works for congregations which have many different legal structures and a wide range of day to day activities including education, healthcare, aged care, and international development.Act to Prevent Trafficking - www.aptireland.org APT is a faith-based group working against Trafficking in Persons in Ireland. It is linked to both the Irish Missionary Union and the Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI). The members first met in December 2005. They are concerned about the growing reality of the worldwide trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. The members of APT are people belonging to religious congregations or missionary societies. They are all volunteers who make themselves available to respond to requests from a variety of groups in Ireland to raise awareness about the issue of human trafficking. APT welcomes collaborators and resource people who are willing to share its work on a short-term or long-term basis. Edmund Rice Schools Trust - www.erst.ie The Edmund Rice Schools Trust has responsibility for 96 former Christian Brother schools in the Republic of Ireland, at both primary and secondary level. It commenced in September 2008. Within the schools, its Charter promotes the full personal and social development of each member and seeks to establish caring Christian communities of learning and teaching, providing Catholic education in the Edmund Rice tradition. Presentation Brothers Schools Trust - www.presentationbrothers.com The Presentation Brothers Schools Trust has responsibility for the trusteeship of five secondary schools and three primary schools, ensuring the provision of Catholic Education in the Edmund Rice tradition. It came into effect in September 2009 Loreto Education Trust - www.loreto.ie/education The Loreto Education Trust is the body responsible for 30 schools under Loreto trusteeship. Of these, sixteen are Voluntary Secondary schools and seven are Primary/Junior schools, and two in Northern Ireland are Voluntary Grammar schools. Loreto also shares trusteeship with others in five Community schools. The Trust serves the schools through the Loreto Education Centre. Gospel values permeate the curriculum and the whole school experience. Conference of Religious in England and Wales - www.corew.org The Conference of Religious seeks to be a dynamic and proactive presence of Church, particularly with those on the margins of society. It aims to unite its membership in collaborative initiatives translating gospel vision into reality, and to offer support to those in positions of leadership. Union of the European Conferences of Major Superiors - www.ucesm.netAt the service of Religious Life in Europe:
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