BCIL News

The Blanchardstown Centre For Independent Living would like to express its gratitude for your support during the static cycling event held to raise awareness for Independent Living. BCIL would like to extend its gratitude to Ger Conroy Fitness for lending a static bike to help us with our challenge. We would also like to take […]

Blanchardstown Centre for Independent Living was recently recognized by the National Lottery, that it has been named as a #GoodCausesAward County Winner for 2023 in the Health & Well-being category. The judges were greatly impressed by the number of entries that BCIL submitted. Being named as the County Winner is a great recognition of the

National Volunteering Week is a weeklong celebration of volunteering that will take place from Monday 15 May – Sunday 21 May 2023. Each year across Ireland, National Volunteering Week includes a range of events, stories and videos that showcase all that is great about volunteering. Volunteering is a voluntary commitment that can be done for

DFI held an event to celebrate self-advocacy members, who spent four consecutive Monday nights with the organization in March and successfully completed the training course. On 27 March, Karen Smith received her certificate from the Federation of Disability Ireland after completing the media training course held by Senator John Dolan and Miriam O’Callaghan. She was

BCIL relies on the help of its volunteers, who play a vital role in the organization’s various services. They are also involved in every aspect of its operations. Volunteers work closely with the staff members of BCIL. We are able to provide flexible and remote volunteer opportunities. These can range from around an hour to

HISTORY OF CIL MOVEMENT The Independent Living Movement evolved in the United States in the 1970’s, as disabled people responded to their historic experiences of exclusion and discrimination. Centre’s for Independent Living became a successful campaign, which led to legislation and policies to come into effect to support disabled people to make their own choices

International Women’s Day is a globally day celebrating the achievements made towards gender equality, also to mark the strive made by those realizations for a greater impetus towards gender equality worldwide. BCIL encourages a world free of discrimination, equality and inclusive. Disabled women are at an increased risk of marginalization, facing inequalities due to biases