Northside Family Resource Centre

Northside Family Resource Centre (originally named St Munchin’s) was established in 1987 and has grown and developed in response to the needs of the communities in which it operates. In 1994, the International Year of the Family, Northside Family Resource Centre was one of a small number of Centres which was funded for the first time under the Department of Social Welfare. The rationale for this funding was “the perception of a possible gap in the statutory support for Community Development activities focused on support for family and tackling child poverty”.

The Centre, its services and community development work, have organically grown over the last 30 years. In response to the community demands the Centre’s catchment area began to expand beyond the original RAPID area and St Munchin’s Family Resource Centre changed its name in 2013 to Northside Family Resource Centre to reflect the areas in which the Centre was really operating.      

The Centre is, and has always been, rooted in the local community and all work is underpinned by community development principles and practices. A key feature of Northside Family Resource Centre’s work is the involvement of local people in identifying needs and developing needs-led responses.