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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If you know Cork, you know that we live in a caring community. And that sense of belonging, that feeling of community, was here before all of us – and will be here long after us.
Here at Cork Simon, we are blessed that our supporters have enriched our organisation – and our community – with their generous gifts.
What we’ve achieved, with the amazing support of our donors, represents our community at its very best. Read More
May 20th, 10:41 am
👏An amazing €150.00 was presented to Cork Simon by Kingston College Mitchelstown students last week - thanks very much for calling to our offices to present this cheque!👏
The students, who are studying QQI Retail Skills at Kingston College Mitchelstown with Ballyhoura Development CLG in partnership with Cork Education and Training Board (Cork ETB), received tremendous support from their community at their Christmas pop-up shop and their recent coffee pop-up shop in Market Square, Mitchelstown.
Thanks to everyone for their support – it means a lot to people experiencing homelessness in Cork. #BelieveInPeople
Well done lads great gesture
May 17th, 10:12 am
🎉👏Well done again to Caitlin Canavan O'Driscoll on her Overall Winning entry for Cork Simon's inaugural Young Writers Awards #WriteForHome competition, in partnership with Irish Examiner.🎉👏
Caitlin's poem has been published in Irish Examiner. Read it here: bit.ly/2HrYgLM
Cork teen pens poem on homelessness
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A transition year student from Cork has scooped the top award in a competition which asked secondary school students to write about their experiences with homelessness.May 16th, 2:23 pm
I was thrilled to be involved with Cork Simon Community’s Write For Home competition, and I was blown away by the empathy displayed by the talented young people involved. Their essays, short stories, and poetry demonstrated a keen understanding of the homelessness crisis that our country is facing today.
Caitlin Canavan O’Driscoll’s poem, ‘Music is the medicine of the mind’, was a worthy overall winner (and she’s a fellow west Cork woman!). See below for more and to read her winning entry.
www.corksimon.ie/youngwritersawards/
May 16th, 12:40 pm
🎉Winners Announced for our first Young Writers Awards #WriteForHome 2019 competition in partnership with Irish Examiner 🎉
Congratulations to Caitlin Canavan O'Driscoll, Olivia Payne, Christopher Forrest, Amy O'Toole and Caragh Cifone on their outstanding entries 👏
Award-winning author and Irish Examiner columnist, Louise O’Neill announced the winners and presented these students with their awards at a prize-giving ceremony in UCC’s Aula Maxima on Saturday 11 May 2019.
The Judging Panel had tough decisions to make with over 200 steller entries from 40 schools across Cork and Kerry!
A Big Thank You to all who entered and shared their writing with us.
For full details, please visit: www.corksimon.ie/youngwritersawards/
May 16th, 8:07 am
🎉🗣 Huge Congratulations to Cork Simon full-time volunteers who graduated with a Certificate in Volunteering from Technological University Dublin recently🎉🗣
We are very proud of you all for your hard work and celebrate National Volunteer Week with you 👏 Volunteers founded Cork Simon and volunteers remain at the heart of everything we do.
Photo credit: Jason Clarke Photography
