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Financial assistance
UCD itself has a range of financial supports to help students most in need. If you think you might qualify, get in touch with your faculty student adviser, or else the Students’ Union welfare officer ([email protected]) , who can provide you with more information. 1) Student Welfare Fund This fund offers financial assistance to students […]
Labhair Linn
No matter what the language, the message is the same. Is cuma cén teanga, tá an teachtaireacht mar an gcéanna. For Seachtain na Gaeilge 2014 in UCD, PleaseTalk have joined up with An Cumann Gaelach to spread the mental health message as Gaeilge. Talking is a sign of strength, not of weakness. Is caint chomhartha neart, níl […]
Annual Candlelight Vigil: November 2013
In November, staff and students in UCD gathered together to remember those in our community who we lost to suicide.
UCD Please Talk Remembrance Ceremony 2013
Thursday 22nd November at 5pm is the annual Please Talk Candlelit Vigil. Please Talk is a campaign that started in UCD and encourages people to talk about their mental health and to let students know of support services in college. The vigil happened outside the library at 5pm and it is a symbolic event to […]
Remembrance Day 2013
Join PleaseTalk on Wednesday 13th November at 5.30pm by the main lake for our annual candlelight vigil. Each year PleaseTalk holds a Remembrance Day on campus to remember those that we have lost to suicide. It offers a chance for the community to come together in reflection and to get people thinking about the reality […]
World Mental Health Day 2013
This Thursday 10th October is World Mental Health Day. In order to raise awareness across UCD, Please Talk will be postering in the morning, making information leaflets available to students, launching our PleaseTalk flyers and holding a FREE tea/coffee evening in Belgrove Residences from 5pm.
Coffee Evenings: 10th & 12th September 2013
September 9th, 2013 This semester PleaseTalk will be holding monthly coffee evenings with ResLife on campus. Not only will there be tea, coffee and biscuits available, but PleaseTalk will have free materials available at each meeting too! Pop in to enjoy some freebies with friends, or come along to meet your neighbours. The first two […]
Guide to Arts
Please Talk along with UCSDU Arts Convener and funding from O2 ThinkBig have produced a handy Guide to UCD Arts for all incoming Arts 1st years. All the information that incoming students need in one booklet, the Guide was written by students for students with the intention of making life easier with entrance into UCD’s […]
PleaseTalk Forum: June 14th 2013
The 2013 PleaseTalk Campaign forum is taking place on Friday the 14th June. It’s an excellent opportunity for outgoing and incoming students’ union officers to meet with one another and talk about issues affecting their students. Discussions will be taking place on how to keep the campaign going strong towards it’s seventh year in 2014.