Ability@Work’s Friendly Phones service is the latest winner of the Cork International Hotel Community Spirit Award. Friendly Phones was set up to provide peer to peer support for the participants on Cope Foundation’s Ability@Work programme during the Covid-19 lockdowns. The programme provides work preparation training and employment opportunities for young people with intellectual disabilities…
Cope Foundation welcomes diversity and a unique approach to its latest online fundraising campaign Cope Foundation has announced its Two Eight Zero Zero Challenge to reflect each of the 2,800 people it supports and is inviting people to take a unique and personal approach to the fundraiser. The non-profit organisation currently supports 2,800 children and…
Some of Ireland’s leading stars and personalities have come up smelling of purple roses in an overwhelming show of petal power for Cystic Fibrosis Ireland’s annual flagship fundraising appeal, 65 Roses Day, taking place tomorrow, Friday April 9. With…
Saturday 24th April FOCUS Ireland urges the people of Cork to sign up for BIG REBEL SLEEP OUT in the fight against homelessness in Cork. FOCUS Ireland have urged all Corkonians to support their SIMULATED Big Rebel Sleep Out organised in association with Cork City FC. The 2021 event will repeat the…
Cope Foundation has made the decision to cancel the Flowers of Hope Collection Day that was due to go ahead tomorrow (13th March) as well as all other Flowers of Hope fundraising events. The annual fundraising campaign was expected to raise €40,000 for the Cork disabilities organisation. However, following the guidance from the HSE, we cannot…
The Marymount Hospice Ball had guests dancing the night away for a very worthy cause recently at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Little Island. This is the twelfth year of the Marymount Ball and to date, the event has raised €1.1 million towards funding and maintaining the ongoing work the hospice provides in palliative…
Enable Ireland’s Fire & Ice Ball took place on November 24 at the Clayton Hotel, Cork City and was kindly sponsored by Kearys BMW. The event kicked off to the swing and jazz sounds of Velvet Duo with a drinks reception sponsored by Heineken and Corporate Life. Well known comedian from Après Match, Barry Murphy, was the…
Photo: Maxwell Photography Cork Airport’s Charity of the Year programme has won the Social Good – Corporate award at the Ireland Chapter of Project Management Institute’s (PMI) prestigious National Project Awards 2018. The announcement was made at the black-tie gala dinner at the offices of headline sponsor PwC on Spencer Dock, Dublin. The Social Good – Corporate 2018 award,…
Charity organisation GOAL’s latest What On Earth public arts exhibition took place at St Luke’s Crypt in Cork City. The exhibition, which is open at the venue until Saturday November 3, has seen artists from Cork and all over Ireland design globes of the world in an effort to raise funds for GOAL’s work. The…
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