Activities

Trinity College has a long and valued tradition community engagement and outreach, arising from a variety of academic partnerships, student voluntary activity and, in particular, dedicated programmes to ensure access to education. This section includes some brief information on some of the ongoing activities in this area.

The Trinity Access Programme

Trinity College is strongly committed to ensuring a significant increase in participation at third level of those who for social, economic and educational reasons have not yet realised their full educational potential. The Trinity Access Programme (TAP) has, since 1993, developed a continuum of educational projects to engage greater numbers of students from under-represented socio-economic groups in third level education. The Trinity Access Programmes (TAP) was established in 1993 and its mission is to work in partnership across the education sector and with students, teachers, families, communities and businesses to widen access and participation at third level of under-represented socio-economic groups, ethnic minorities and Travellers. Read more about TAP...

Voluntary Tuition Programme

The Voluntary Tuition Programme (VTP)is a partnership between Trinity students, parents and volunteers from the local communities of Pearse Street and Ringsend. Every year over 400 Trinity students, graduates and staff-members act as tutors to children and teenagers studying in nearby schools. Each mentor and student spend one hour a week in one of four tuition centres, getting to know each other and working together on homework and other educational activities. VTP also runs a number of smaller educational programs, as well as other educational clubs and language Classes. Read more about VTP...

St Vincent De Paul

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is the largest, voluntary, charitable organisation in Ireland. It works for social justice and the creation of a more just, caring nation. The VDP in Trinity is the student Conference of the national organisation. It runs over 20 activities every week including homework clubs, youth clubs, soup runs, flat decorating, visiting the elderly and much more. Read more about VDP...

Bridge2College

Bridge2College (B2C) is a partnership between Trinity College and Suas Educational Development. To date, B2C has provided hundreds of transition year students from designated disadvantaged second-level schools with innovative learning experience delivered by volunteer mentors. The programme presents the capabilities of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in a way that complements and enriches school initiatives whilst also giving the transition year students the benefits of learning from and interacting with undergraduates and postgraduates. Read more about B2C...

Suas

The Suas student society in Trinity is part of the wider Suas Educational Development network in Ireland which works to to promote high quality education for all in the developing world and to foster global citizenship and its responsibilities in Ireland. Activities in Trinity include homework clubs and activities such as language mentoring and social football with refugees in collaboration with the Jesuit Refugee Service. Read more about Suas...