The Cork Diocesan Youth Council has launched a Youth Initiative with the aim to assist parishes in developing events for teenagers.

Each parish, or group of parishes, is encouraged to apply to Cork Diocesan Youth Council, for a grant of up to €1,000 to enable the parish to run three youth events during the year 2026. These events must be focused on the age group 12-18 (i.e. secondary school age) and include, if possible, young leaders.

The aim is that these events will encourage on-going parish youth work and help the parishes in running their own events, hence the Youth Council will not be running the events and the parishes are encouraged to enable and provide young leaders to do so. CDYC will run training events to support parishes in enabling young leaders and will provide suggestions as to the type of event to run.

Application forms for project funding are available now and must be submitted by the 15th of November 2025.

Please contact Hilda Connolly at dyo@corkchurchofireland.com to receive your application form and information pack.