2025: The Year We Became Unstoppable 💥

What. A. Year.

If 2025 had a theme for PsyCare Ireland, it would be growth with soul. We’re still catching our breath after what’s been our biggest, boldest, and most beautiful year yet.

✅ We became a registered charity.

✅ We trained 60 incredible new volunteers.

✅ We adopted our first formal organisational chart.

✅ We welcomed powerhouse new core team members and Trustees/Directors.

✅ We delivered services at 14 events and supported 789 guests.

✅ We joined Mental Health Reform and the National Rural Safety Forum.

✅ We were named with actions in the National Rural Safety Plan.

✅ We graduated from the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Impact Programme

✅ We won the AIB Community Fund, The Pobal Social Enterprise Scale Up Grant

✅ We won 81K from the Department of Justice for our National Nightlife Safety Programme (NITE).

From festival fields to student campuses, we showed up in force, bringing expert care, radical compassion, and deep listening to people in moments of crisis and vulnerability. We proudly delivered services at:

• Otherside Festival (x2 Paddy's Day/Halloween)

• Éalú Le Grá

• D8 In the Garden (x3 Nights)

• District X (x2 Nights)

• The Works

• Body & Soul: A Wake

• IYKYK Festival

• Rewild Festival

• Fuinneamh Festival

• DCU Students’ Christmas Celebration

  
  

Behind every one of those events were more than 100 dedicated volunteers—real-life legends—who gave their time, skills, and hearts to make these services possible. We see you. We honour you.

We also want to send massive thanks to all the festival organisers, partners, and stakeholders who welcomed us, worked with us, and believed in the power of compassionate crisis support. You are changing the landscape of Irish events.

This was also the year we scaled our internal systems, strengthened governance, and solidified our national presence—especially with our inclusion in Ireland’s National Rural Safety Plan and our new collaborations with advocacy networks and local safety partnerships.

To everyone who’s backed PsyCare—whether by volunteering, funding, partnering, or spreading the word—you’ve helped us save lives, reduce harm, and bring light into some of the darkest moments.

We’re just getting started. Here’s to 2026, a safer, more supportive Ireland—and to all the healing still to come.

With love and deep gratitude,

The PsyCare Ireland Team