SPEEDPAK GROUP

Creating a better society with your help

Speedpak Group is a social enterprise that supports long-term unemployed people on Dublin’s northside in making a new start in life.

You can be a Social Investor!

We offer opportunities for you and your business to become social investors through collaboration on education, training and work-focussed programmes that are designed to provide decent work, and a better life, for long-term unemployed

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Collaborate with us on education, training and work programmes that are designed to provide decent work, and a better life, for people who, for whatever reason, have become long-term unemployed

As a Customer you make a positive social impact!

When you purchase our goods and services you are making a positive social impact. You provide us with revenue we need to continue to operate our businesses and to provide opportunities for long-term unemployed people.

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We are a social enterprise—a business with a social mission. We operate commercially to provide training and real work experience for long term unemployed people.

Partner with us for a better society!

As a partner, collaborator or project leader, Speedpak Group Social Enterprise focuses on providing measurable value for all stakeholders while operating to the highest standards of accountability, transparency and corporate governance.

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We have over 30 years experience of working on, and coordinating, multi-agency projects and programmes that are aimed at improving the career prospects and quality of life for local long-term unemployed people.

As a customer of ours you make a positive social impact!

When you purchase our goods and services you are making a positive social impact. You provide us with revenue we need to continue to operate our businesses and to provide opportunities for long-term unemployed people.

You and your business can be Social Investors!

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Partner with us for a better society!

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As a customer of ours you make a positive social impact!

Customer Care – Administrator

Working as part of the Customer Care Team to provide excellent customer care and support across Speedpak’s commercial and training businesses.

Training & Development Officer – Community Employment (CE) Supervisor

A hands-on role which offers variety and responsibility. Reporting to the HR Manager, the role expands across Production and HR operations. You will support the supervision of a team of over 40 trainee general operatives to achieve a high level of performance, and develop skills with a strong focus on employability and progression to employment.  

Free Promotional Opportunity for Social Enterprises Selling Goods and Services

Speedpak Group is seeking to make contact with other Work Integration Social Enterprises [WISEs] who wish to be featured in the WISE Ireland directory that was launched in May 2022. “Work Integration Social Enterprises exist mainly to improve the employability and...

The 7 Pillars of the European Social Economy Action Plan

European Action plan for the Social Economy - The Seven Pillars The following seven pillars for a European Action Plan for the Social Economy have been proposed by Social Economy Europe. Pillar 1: Establish a common understanding of social economy enterprises and...

Speedpak Group features on Acumen’s international list of 100 corporate-ready social enterprises

Dublin-based Speedpak Group has been nominated as one of Acumen’s 100 Corporate-Ready Social Enterprises.  The list, and accompanying survey-based report Corporate-Ready—How Corporations and Social Enterprises do Business Together to Drive Impact was created by...

Social procurement. Good for governments, good for businesses, good for social enterprises and good for society.

Social procurement refers to the purchase of goods and services, by businesses and governments, from social enterprises and other organisations that have a strong ethical mission. It considers not just the economic impact of a purchase but also the positive social...

Enhanced Skills Programme 2 [ESP2]

An award-winning, industry-led programme tailored to meet the needs of jobseekers with a criminal conviction.SUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND THROUGH THE DORMANT ACCOUNTS FUNDDo you need recent work experience to build up your CV? Are you interested in a career...

Speedpak fulfilment for GIY’s “Grow It Forward” campaign Spring 2021

GIY's "Grow It Forward" campaign featured the fulfilment by Speedpak Contract Services of 50,000 seed packs. GIY, like Speedpak Group, is a social enterprise. Its mission is to support people around the world to live happier, healthier and more sustainable lives by...

Increasing Employment through Work Integration Social Enterprise – DCU ‘Passion to Action’ podcast

Podcasted interview with Speedpak Chief Executive John P. Murphy as part of DCU's 'Passion to Action' podcast series. Part of DCU's resource hub for social innovation and social entrepreneurship education, this project aims to "support educators in embedding social...

First Aid Responder Training

Some of our training staff attending their certified PHECC First Aid Responder course with Avalon Training recently.   This is one of the many industry-led training courses provided by Speedpak Group to participants on CE and TÚS labour market programmes. ...

‘The Future Is Social’ – podcast interview with Speedpak Group Chief Executive John P. Murphy for Near FM

Monday 10th May 2021: Myra Gleeson of Coolock-based Near FM speaks with John P. Murphy, Chief Executive of Speedpak Group, who provides insight into how the organisation works locally to provide real commercial work and industry-led training opportunities...

‘The Future Is Social’ – radio interview with Speedpak’s John P. Murphy and Eoghan Ryan of Rethink Ireland

In this interview, first broadcast on Tuesday 11th May 2021, Dublin City FM presenter Sam Assad speaks with John P. Murphy, Chief Executive of Speedpak Group and and Eoghan Ryan, Growth Fund Manager at Rethink Ireland about Rethink Ireland's 'Future is Social'...

Speedpak Group – Continuing to Trade, Train and Transform

Trading We are fortunate throughout lockdown that our Speedpak Contract Services division continues to be part of the national supply chain for medical devices and catering disposables. For these contracts, we break down bulk consignments of medical masks and latex...

Speedpak Group features in Social Enterprise Development Fund Showcase

We were delighted to feature in the 2021 Social Enterprise Development Fund Showcase that took place on Thursday 21st of January 2021 celebrating the impact achieved by the Fund's 2020 Awardees. Speedpak Group was one of 16 social enterprises to receive cash grants...

Face Coverings as Comfortable, Commercial & Social Fit

From the very early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, Speedpak Contract Services has been supporting the national supply chain of personal protective equipment [PPE] alongside disposable food packaging. Mandatory social distancing measures, which meant an obligatory...

Launch of new social enterprise representative body SERI

Speedpak Group is proud to be a member of the new social enterprise representative body SERI which was launched on 10th July 2020. SERI is working to increase awareness and understanding of social enterprise and to demonstrate the value to Ireland’s economy and...

Speedpak Group Activity During the Covid-19 Pandemic

At Speedpak we are currently focussing on those parts of our commercial business that are deemed essential. We are proud to play a part in this national effort by helping to ensure working supply chains and distribution channels for disposable food trays and...

Joe Reynolds – In Loving Memory

It is with great sadness that we heard the news this morning [16th December 2019] that our colleague and friend Joe Reynolds died. Joe started working in Speedpak Group on a training programme under Community Employment in 2007 and then joined our core staff as a...

Communities Creating Jobs [CCJ] Winter Newsletter 2019

Edited by Dr. Senan Cooke, the Communities Creating Jobs [CCJ] Winter Newsletter is a comprehensive report on social enterprise activity throughout Ireland in 2019 and is now available to download in PDF format. The Newsletter is a useful appendix to Senan's...

Open Call for Expressions of Interest to participate in the National Social Enterprise Policy Implementation Group

The Department of Rural and Community Development is seeking expressions of interest from practitioners or persons involved in supporting social enterprise or social entrepreneurship to participate in the national Social Enterprise Policy Implementation Group. One...

Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social Enterprise announced

The Department of Rural and Community Development in partnership with the Irish Research Council invites applications for a Social Enterprise 'Impact' Fellowship. Worth €100,000 over the next two years, the Fellowship is being delivered in as part of the new National...

Traineeship 2020 now enrolling – Valuable career opportunity!

We are currently seeking applications for our Traineeship in Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Customer Service Logistics which will commence in January 2020. This 30-week Traineeship – now in its third year – has resulted in excellent progression rates to full-time...

What our first Traineeship programme participants said…

In this short video, participants on our first Traineeship in Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Customer Service Logistics, explain how the programme had a positive and significant impact on their lives.

Social Enterprise Summit | 16 October 2019 | Dublin

The Social Enterprise Summit is part of a series of events representing Dublin's involvement in the European Commission’s European Social Economy Regions 2019 project. The summit will bring together leading stakeholders and social enterprise representatives to focus...

Enhanced Skills Programme

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The Ireland Funds Flagship Grants: Speedpak Group

In 2016 the Ireland Funds awarded Speedpak with a Flagship Grant of €50,000 to help the organisation develop its Enhanced Skills Traineeship Programme. This programme was designed to provide logistics and manufacturing skills to young people who were not in...

The Enterprising Community by Senan Cooke

Senan Cooke’s The Enterprising Community: A Bottom-up Perspective on the Capacity of Communities to Regenerate is an extensive and accessible source of practical information for anyone wishing to assess, develop and leverage the social and economic potential of their...

€800,000 in grants for the provision of training and mentoring for social enterprises announced

Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 30th September 2019 (at 3:00 pm). A fund of €800,000 for the provision of training and mentoring for social enterprises throughout Ireland has been announced by Minister Michael Ring T.D., Minister for Rural...

Social Enterprise in Scotland | Census 2019

Launched on 4th September 2019, the third bi-annual Social Enterprise in Scotland Census report is the essential guide to tracking social enterprise activity and development in Scotland. The census, co-ordinated by Community Enterprise in Scotland [CEIS] as part of a...

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Speedpak Group is a social enterprise that provides commercial work experience and industry-led training to long term unemployed people on Dublin’s Northside.