The housing crisis is pushing people into homelessness and preventing people from leaving homelessness. Our Emergency Shelter is overflowing with an average of 57 people per night relying on a Cork Simon emergency bed. People are staying for longer and longer in emergency accommodation because they have no other options. Rents in Cork City increased 13.7% last year; Rent Supplement and Housing Assistance Payments do not come near asking rents.
Our Emergency Shelter is located on Anderson’s Quay, in the heart of Cork city centre. The Shelter provides care, accommodation and one-to-one support for 47 people around-the-clock, every day of the year. Demand for emergency beds is high – throughout 2018 the Shelter accommodated an average of 57 people per night – the need for emergency accommodation is so great that we try to accommodate as many people as is safe to do so.
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March 13th, 8:03 am
“To be honest with myself, to be true with myself, to write my story and to write how I felt about something”.
In the latest #WriteForHome vlog, writer Paul Casey shares the best advice he has been given - storytelling must come from the heart.
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⌚️ Closing date - Monday 25 March 2019 - there is still time to get your entries in. Sign-up now: www.corksimon.ie/youngwritersawards/
March 12th, 9:03 am
‘Keep your Business in Cork to Keep Cork in Business’. 👏 This is the well-known phrase from O’Mahony Boylan Golden (Munster) Ltd who were very pleased to make a donation of €400 to Cork Simon recently. 👏
Thank you very much for your kind donation and for believing in people. It means a lot to people who experiencing homelessness in Cork.
In the picture: Thomas Kalinauskas and Cathriona Twomey (both of Cork Penny Dinners), Billy Kenny (O’Mahony Boylan Golden) and Vivienne O’Mahony (Cork Simon Community).
March 11th, 8:10 am
“No going back time” - In this #WriteForHome vlog, writer Kathy D’Arcy explains that there must be a point in your story where your character realises there’s no going back.
By the end of your story, would your character have done it differently?
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⌚️ Closing date - Monday 25 March 2019 - there is still time to get your entries in. Sign-up now: www.corksimon.ie/youngwritersawards/
March 7th, 8:20 am
“Make it new” - Writer Gabriel Fitzmaurice encourages students who are entering Cork Simon’s #WriteForHome competition to write “in your own accent, your own voice”.
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Stay tuned for more best advice from Paul Casey, Louise O'Neill and Kathy D'Arcy before the closing date - Monday 25 March 2019.
⌚️ There is still time to get your entries in. Sign-up now: www.corksimon.ie/youngwritersawards/
March 5th, 11:09 am
Are you at the editing/redrafting stage of your #WriteForHome entry? 🖊️
“There is so much potential to enhance your work and polish it and make it better and figure out really the core of what it is you are saying through editing and redrafting,” says Kathy D’Arcy, poet and creative writing teacher.
Kathy provides easy ways to edit and redraft your work in this vlog. 💻 Press play now.
⌚️There is still time to get your entries in with three weeks to go to the closing date - Monday 25 March 2019. ⌚️ Sign-up now: www.corksimon.ie/youngwritersawards/
