Dublin
Brain Tumour Ireland- €1,100 - offering support group meetings online.
Ballymun Child & Family Resource Centre- €5,000 - provide support to vulnerable families by providing essential food hampers and activities kits for children. T
Quarryvale Family Resource Centre- €6,000 - ensure isolated people are able to keep in touch and be supported. People with mental health needs to receive therapy. Individuals and families at risk supported and kept in contact with.
Centre for Independent Living- €2,800 - create online facilitated spaces with activities to connect disabled people
Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project- €5,180 - provide emergency health packs to each family. Fortnightly delivery of emergency care packs to all families in the region.
Walkinstown Green Social Enterprises- €10,000 - to produce an average of 320 free meals per week for older people and people with disabilities in the Dublin 12 area using transport to deliver these meals free of charge. This service complements the local meals on wheels service who don’t have the capacity to cater for the additional demand.
Kilkenny
Kilkenny Cancer Support- €4,600 - Cois Nore Cancer Support Centre are committed to continuing to provide vital support services to anyone affected by cancer and will set up and operate a Helpline to enable a service to continue due to an increased demand from those with cancer for information about precautions etc.
Kerry
Ballyheigue Social Economy Enterprises- €2,000 - to continue essential services such as our Meals on Wheels and Laundry.
Kerry Adolescent Counselling Service- €5,000 - As of 30/3/2020 all clients are accessing service via phone; in exceptional circumstance a client may be seen face to face if this is essential. The KACS office is being managed on a staggered basis to minimise contact and travel.
Foodshare Kerry- €7,500 - During this crisis, Foodshare Kerry has experienced a decrease in food donations, fundraising abilities and manpower, but an increase in the demand for services, particularly from meals and wheels and organisations working with those with a disability
Limerick
Caherconlish Community Council- €2,000 - providing food service tto ensure a nutritious and healthy meal a number of times per week.
Hospital Family Resource Centre Clg- €4,765 - continue to work and meet the needs of the most vulnerable people in our community. Our target groups already include Older People, People with Disabilities, children and families
Mayo
Balla CRD- €2,000 - delivering ready meals, groceries, fuel and medications to vulnerable and isolated members of our communities on a daily basis.
Castlebar Le Cheile- €3,000 - This blue box project will reduce isolation for those living alone and they will feel included in the activities for families even though the Familiy resource center is closed to the public.
Achill Tourism- €5,000 - The immediate need for funding at this time is to cover the cost of operating the office dedicated to the Community Volunteer Coordination Response Centre. Also, for the safeguarding of over 200 local volunteers we need assistance in the purchase of PPE for these people.
Offaly
Midlands Science- €5,000 – To provide science outreach online for students at home during this pandemic.
Roscommon
Roscommon Safe Link- €10,000 - additional laptops to facilitate and enhance the work by providing secure online zoom support meeting for both counselling and support of clients and to ensure cohesive and inclusive support for staff issue and case management meetings.
Sligo
Order of Malta Ambulance Corps Sligo- €5,134 - The Order of Malta has been a consistent provider of community care services . We do not charge for these services and therefore have always supplemented the cost of these services through donations
Sligo Traveller Support Group Ltd- €7,000 - Familes/persons supported via this grant will be able to self isolate and social distance better as a result of measures targeted at the 40% of Sligo Traveller community who are actually in the higher risk category with underlying conditions
Tipperary
CARMHA- €7,190 - Phone supports and online groups have been made available, however, people are slow to reach out for help due to a range of barriers such as being unskilled, fearful or reluctant to use technology, poor internet access, no phone credit etc. We need to urgently and actively outreach to this population in order to save lives, by training peer-support-workers and providing enhanced remote supports.
Waterford
Enhance- €1,850 - We require a small amount of funding to provide qualified and experienced telephone support to members/committee members of organisations working with Irish seniors.
Sacred Heart Family Community and Childcare Project- €3,000 – Service users have requested more practical supports to occupy their time, stay motivated and stay mentally and physically well. We agreed on packs for all our clients living alone identified by other agencies working with elderly.
Waterford South Eastern Cancer Foundation- €10,000 - A phone support service offering support, advice and information. Remote welfare checks with our existing clients. Remote counselling sessions with existing and new clients.
Westmeath
Helium Arts- €5,000 - Helium Arts is mobilising the Children’s Creative Health Programme to take place both online and through the postal system, to provide a space for children and young people aged six to eighteen years to self-express, connect, and experience pride and achievement through collaborative art making.
Order of Malta Ambulance Corps Mullingar- €5,000 - Order of Malta at this time is assisting in the community and surrounding areas, transporting people to and from hospital appointments (which include travel to Galway and Dublin). These patients are elderly or will have underlying medical conditions
Wicklow
Purple House Cancer Support- €7,500 - We have adapted our services to continue to operate as much as possible thus ensuring that those who are most vulnerable are not left isolated and without emotional support and practical help during this uncertain time.