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As part of Business in the Community Ireland’s (BITCI) Time to Count programme, the pupils of Presentation Primary School visited Bank of Ireland, O’Connell Street, Limerick branch. Unique to this site visit was the attendance of Mayor of Limerick, John Moran who is a strong champion of effective local initiatives to tackle educational disadvantage.   The […]

Often achieving a successful career is working in a job that aligns with your professional identity, values, skills and education.  For women, this alignment regularly gets interrupted. From their mid-30s, women’s career choices start to adjust to what others need; when the decision is made to return to work, over time these efforts can lose […]

Business and nature are deeply interconnected, both depending and impacting on each other. According to the World Economic Forum ‘$44 trillion of economic value generation – more than half of the world’s total GDP – is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services’. But not every business realizes just how much they rely […]

On a quarterly basis, Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) shares the latest developments in EU sustainability regulations. Topics covered in this series of updates throughout 2025 include sustainability reporting, environmental and human rights due diligence, green taxonomy, nature and biodiversity, greenwashing, and forced labour. Our aim is to provide news, stakeholder insights, and useful […]

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is delighted to publish an external evaluation of its Time to Count programme, kindly funded by the ESB Energy for Generations Fund. The Time to Count programme, which began in 2013, aims is to build children’s confidence around numbers, reinforce their conceptual understanding around numbers and support them in […]

Climate change and nature breakdown pose profound risks to Ireland’s economy and society. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement, a global accord to combat climate change by limiting global temperature rise since pre-industrial levels to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to cap it at 1.5°C.  However, […]

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025. A great way to help us celebrate is if your company joins our movement for change. As leaders in sustainability and social inclusion, BITCI has supported our members to embed all aspects of sustainability, namely Economic, Environmental, Social and Governance (EESG), into […]

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) has today unveiled the first cohort of signatories to its recently launched collective campaign, Accelerate: The Business Pact for Climate and Nature. The initiative urges prompt business action to address the interconnected climate and nature crises by calling on members of the BITCI network to set a Science Based […]

Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is celebrating the graduation of its EPIC programme participants for 2024. The EPIC programme empowers unemployed refugees and asylum seekers in their job search providing training on CV preparation, mock interviews, advice on navigating the Irish job market and one-to-one career counselling support.   The EPIC programme is predominantly […]