Soup Run
For over 50 years a team of dedicated part-time volunteers have helped make sure our Soup Run door is open every night of the year, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
The Soup Run was our first service back in 1971 and can often be the first point of contact for people pushed over the edge and into homelessness here in Cork.
Our Soup Run offers hot nourishing food, blankets and warm clothing where needed, and a friendly listening ear. Working with our Outreach Team, the Soup Run can help quickly identify people who may be sleeping rough, or who have just become homeless, as well as people at risk of losing their homes.
In all cases our Outreach Team works to make sure people have access to the most appropriate service – whether that be a bed in our Emergency Shelter or Night Light service, an appointment with the HSE’s health team, a referral to our Youth Homeless Drug Prevention service or an appointment with other, more appropriate services here in Cork.
It is not unusual for us to meet men and women at our Soup Run who are spending all of their resources on their private rented accommodation that they have nothing left for food and other basic needs. Many of the people we meet are isolated with little or no social support networks, are vulnerable and excluded, and at risk of becoming homeless.
“Without the Soup Run, I would have starved; I’d probably be dead by now. It was the only way I had to get food.”
– ‘Ronan’