What is Walking Football as Medicine? WFAM is a fun, non-contact version of football designed specifically for adults living with chronic conditions or impairments. It’s low impact and packed with benefits for your physical and mental wellbeing. Family and carers are welcome to attend. Why Join? Improve your fitness, balance and coordination Boost your mental […]
The Azure Steering Group, comprised of Age & Opportunity, IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Butler Gallery and The Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland, is pleased to offer Azure foundation training for gallery/museum staff (curators, education/access officers, guides and volunteers), arts educators and artists with facilitation experience, this Autumn. We ask that arts educators and artists […]
Are you part of an older person’s group in Dublin? Would you like to train as a PAL (Physical Activity Leader)? PALs (Physical Activity Leaders) is an initiative which trains older people how to lead sport and activity sessions in their local groups and communities. Once you become a PAL you will be trained to […]
We are delighted to offer Changing Gears in Sligo this October and November 2026. Changing Gears is a course designed to boost wellbeing and resilience for those aged 50+ years. It supports people to manage transitions/change in mid to later life. The change may be to do with: retirement, having more free time, bereavement, job-loss, […]
Age & Opportunity Active in partnership with the HSE invites staff of day or residential care settings to take part in our upcoming CarePALs workshops. CarePALs aims to empower those working in day and residential care settings to lead suitable physical activities with older people who live in or visit their setting. This means that […]
We are delighted to offer Changing Gears in collaboration with Portlaoise Library this November and December 2026. Changing Gears is a course designed to boost wellbeing and resilience for those aged 50+ years. It supports people to manage transitions/change in mid to later life. The change may be to do with: retirement, having more free […]
Calling all PALs across Leinster A Day to Move • Meet • Share • Have Fun You’ve completed your PAL training — now it’s time to bring everyone together. Join us for a fun and active day where PALs from across Leinster can: Try something new with a range of fun activities Meet and connect […]
At Age & Opportunity we are bringing Creative Exchanges to Cork city this autumn. Creative Exchanges is a two-day course (one day per week over 2 weeks), designed for activities coordinators working in residential or day care settings. It is also suitable for those with an arts background, interested in engaging with older people in […]
