‘LIteracy Changes Lives’ – HSE South West Health PPN, representatives pictured with cross community literacy partners in Kerry pictured at the recent Kerry Regional Adult Literacy Literacy & Wellness Conference in Tralee.OVER €43,000 in funds will be allocated across Kerry to deliver innovative community projects to help tackle unmet literacy needs, and benefit adults and communities across the region.
Funding of €43,773 allocated to the County Kerry region will address unmet literacy needs across the region through the delivery of transformational cross-community projects, spanning literacy, family literacy, numeracy, digital literacy, and financial literacy to benefit the local community.
Some of the eight projects receiving funding from SOLAS through the Adult Literacy For Life (ALL) Collaboration & Innovation Fund 2026 in Kerry include the following:
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The Let’s Stitch Together initiative: A creative sewing project that will support adults to build literacy, numeracy, and digital skills through hands-on learning. Targeting older adults, carers, and people with disabilities, this project promotes confidence, independence and social connection in an inclusive and engaging environment.
Many Languages, One Voice: a co-created, peer-to-peer project that will produce a series of high-quality, accessible videos across seven key languages. These videos will be narrated by members of the community who have lived experience in Ireland, helping parents navigate childcare, education and supports in Ireland through a central digital hub. This will create a lasting multilingual roadmap for new communities.
The Supporting our service users with unmet literacy needs initiative: This conference ran in early June 2026, with over 100 attendees from services across Kerry. Participants heard from Literacy Ambassador, Michael Power, whilst experts in health, numeracy, family and digital literacy gave tips on how to make sure that service users could act after a single reading of documents supplied to them. Participants went away armed with a booklet full of simple tips to make their services more literacy friendly.
