PAL Toolkit

As a PAL, the first thing you need to check out is the 2022-2023 PAL Pack! Inside you’ll find all the updates about the programme and key info for this year in an easy-to-read brochure. 

The PAL Guide is your essential need-to-know about the details of the programme, all new PALs receive a physical copy of the PAL guide. If you need one sent out to you, contact your Development officer.  

Regardless of the size of your Gaisce participant group, people can run out of ideas very quickly on what to do with their Challenge areas, and also what to do for their additional weeks! Check out the support sheets below for some ideas, encourage participants to look through all of our Gaisce Challenge Partners, and you can also reach out directly to your Development Officer to see what can work for different ability levels.

We’ve updated and improved the way we register participants, sign up our PALs, approve participants and sort out invoices. The Gaisce Online (GO) platform better protects PAL and Participant data in line with GDPR, and the information we collect will enable us to continue improving the quality of the programme and the accessibility of Gaisce into the future.  

You’ll need to familiarise yourself with: 

• Accessing the GO System 
• Activating your Participants 
• Sorting out payments / creating an invoice 
• Approving diary entries  
• Changing Participant’s activities  
• Filling in a brief survey about the Adventure Journey(s) taken 

Here are a collection of pages that are set up as support pages to help make your journey as a PAL easier.

There is also an FAQ section, which answers questions that we frequently get asked.

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FAQ

Your Gaisce Development officer is here to support you as a PAL to encourage, motivate, engage and inform your Gaisce participants! 

We have rejigged our regions to make sure every PAL has excellent support, so see below to see who your Development Officer is this year as there’s been some small changes for 2022. 

You will also find information and contact details for Gaisce Development Officers who are supporting other Gaisce projects you may be involved in:  

1. Supporting Youth people seeking asylum or who have refugee status 
2. Garda Youth Diversion Projects, Intervention and Probation 
3. Prisons, Youth Detention and Uniformed Organisations 

Bronze, and regularly Silver, Gaisce Award ceremonies are organised on a local level by the organisations that offer Gaisce programmes, like schools, colleges and youth services (Gaisce Award Partners).