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Earth's Edge - Kilimanjaro Equipment Lending Programme
Earth’s Edge is Ireland’s only fully licensed adventure travel company. The Equipment Lending Programme was set up to help the porters who work on Africa’s highest mountain. At 5,896m climbing Kilimanjaro is a serious challenge for all climbers especially the porters who have the additional task of carrying heavy loads on the mountain. To add to that many of the porters are poorly clothed for the job, where temperatures can dip to -30 degrees celsius. Therefore, Earth’s Edge identified a need to supply porters with mountaineering clothing. They have partnered with KPAP (Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project) an American run, Tanzanian based NGO who have an equipment lending programme in place for porters to bring the concept to fruition. Earth’s Edge sent 20 large duffel bags of equipment from Ireland with their climbing teams in 2016 and are in the process of collecting donations for their 2017 shipment.
EMIT - EMIT & Play for Paddy: Giving Cancer the Boot
The Play for Paddy charity football tournament was established in 2014, to preserve the memory of cancer victim Paddy Delahunty by raising vital funds for the fantastic services provided by St. Francis Hospice, Raheny and the Irish Cancer Society. Supported by EMIT, the event has received an overwhelming response, raising €20,000 for both charities in the last three years. The Play for Paddy tournament is now a highly sought after title for many teams, and the organisers plan on expanding the scale of the event to incorporate more teams and locations in the years to come.
Fitness Freak - Free Fruit For All in South Tipperary General Hospital
This healthy food initiative in South Tipperary General Hospital was set up in June 2016 by Fitness Freak Owner Richard Kennedy. In three locations within the hospital - paediatrics, outpatients and the staff canteen - apples from a local apple farm are supplied weekly without charge or inconvenience. These apples are sponsored by different local businesses each week. Richard meets the sponsors and promotes the fact they have sponsored that weeks supply of apples on his own social media platforms .The apples are collected and dropped off at the hospital by local TY students of Gael Scoil Clonmel and the students distribute them to the departments.
Recycle IT - Clondalkin Community Recycling Initiative Limited
Recycle IT offers a friendly & needs driven community recycling collection and drop off service in Dublin. Collection teams pickup electrical and electronic equipment from communities, educators and charities at no charge. Business and individual customers with an immediate need can avail of free or cost effective recycling solutions including drop off or collection services.
Recycle IT focuses on providing services in communities where electrical recycling may be difficult to achieve for a range of economic and social reasons. Recycle IT have offered collection services to over 100,000 individuals over the last year in Dublin and surrounding areas collecting over 600 tonnes of once loved and well used electrical items for recycling.
Recycle IT take a partnership approach in promoting awareness and supporting communities with recycling services and hopes to develop this approach to achieve more over the coming years.
Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland - RIAI Simon Open Door
With the homeless crisis deepening, the RIAI Simon Open Door campaign invited the public to sign up for one hour consultations with their local architect with E70 going directly to Simon. a media and communications campaign was planned and delivered that raised almost E100,000 for the Simon Communities with 1300 consultations undertaken across 300 practices, with the messaging reaching 4.5 million delivering 135 times Return on Investment.
Stelfox – Soar
The primary aim of the project was to support Soar achieve the vision of helping the youth of Ireland. Soar believes that within all young people is an immense greatness that often lies beneath fear, self-doubt and a sense of disengagement from society.
After meeting with Soar the Stelfox Board and staff made the immediate decision to become involved. From day one, Stelfox have been able to provide support in navigating various challenges, with Stelfox directors joining the Soar board and employees continually becoming involved with workshops and fundraising. With these initiatives Soar has become more strategic in handling the demand for their services. It is because of this partnership that Soar was able to deliver early intervention-preventative ,wellness workshops inside Irish schools to 5,568 young people in 2016 with the aim of 7,000 in 2017.
Technically Write IT Ltd - Charity and Community Involvement Committee
Since 2015, TWi has partnered with Cork Simon to support their excellent work helping people experiencing homelessness, through fundraising, volunteering, and raising awareness. TWi has donated over €40,000 and TWi employees have given several hundred hours to help support and improve the quality of life for those people who are experiencing a difficult time in their life. This partnership has established a strong, positive, mutually beneficial relationship between two organisations that is ongoing and will continue to grow in the future.
