The Mount Street Club was founded in Dublin in 1934 as a unique response to unemployment in the city. Our work today focuses on supporting innovative projects to generate real change for disadvantaged communities in the wider Dublin area.
Their Impact
Hope & Ambition is the Mount Street Club Trust’s current funding and development initiative. Enlightened by the principles of trustbased philanthropy, Hope & Ambition empowers organisations to sustain innovative thinking and practice and evolve a critically-informed analysis in their work with marginalised and disadvantaged communities in the greater Dublin area.
One such grantee is The Intercultural Language Service, they established an innovative two-way model of integration and social inclusion between new and established communities in Dublin City. Free English language classes are provided by volunteers from the community within a welcoming and flexible learning environment. Running alongside the language classes, an evolving programme of events and collaborative projects promotes community-building, including the Intercultural Storytelling Project.