Factsheets

10,568 men, women and children in emergency accommodation nationally during the week of 25-31 July 2022.

730 men, women and children in emergency accommodation here in the South West (Cork & Kerry).

HOMELESS FIGURES

The Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage publishes figures each month on the number of people depending on emergency accommodation nationally and regionally. A monthly breakdown of the figures for Cork, Kerry and the South West (Cork & Kerry) is included in our Homeless Watch.

The most recent set of figures published by the Department cover the week of 25-31 July 2022.

Download July 2022 Figures

GUIDE TO EMERGENCY HOMELESS SERVICES IN CORK

The Cork City Homeless Forum has produced a guide to homeless emergency services for over 18’s in Cork. This extensive guide details the full range of emergency accommodation available for people experiencing homelessness within Cork City.

Download Guide to Emergency Homeless Services

CORK HOMELESS DIRECTORY

The Cork City Homeless Forum has produced a directory of homeless services available within Cork City. It is a comprehensive guide to hostels, supported housing and advice services. This extensive directory details where information can be obtained on housing, how the supplementary welfare allowance scheme can be accessed, the health services available to people experiencing homelessness and how they can be accessed, and much more.

Download Cork Homelessness Directory

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Better because of you

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Thank you for the lives you changed.
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Joan

"Accept yourself. It gives you confidence, gratitude, hope, strength, self-worth. It gives you a shield around you." - Joan.
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Work with us

Cork Simon Community is committed to equality of opportunity. We are currently recruiting a Night Worker and a Polish Speaking Project Support Worker.
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Part time volunteering

Volunteers founded Cork Simon almost 50 years ago and remain at the heart our community. Part-time volunteers are active in everything Cork Simon does, from sitting on our Board of Directors to helping us to fundraise to supporting people to develop life skills such as cooking, literacy and numeracy.
Get Help

Details of services and contact numbers if you are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless.
Factsheets

View the latest monthly emergency accommodation figures for Cork and the Southwest from the Department of Housing, and download the Cork Homeless Forum Directory of Services for people experiencing homelessness and their Guide to Emergency Homeless Services in Cork.
Services team

Key contacts for our range of services, including Emergency, Outreach, Housing and Housing First, Addiction and Aftercare, and Personal Development services.
Sponsor a Room

As a Room Sponsor you will be helping to save lives. You give a monthly gift, at an amount you can afford, to provide someone who is homeless with a safe room of their own, everything that goes with that, and a pathway to move into independent living. Believing in people.
Senior management team

Our Director, Dermot Kavanagh, reports directly to the Board of Directors. The Senior Management Team works with Dermot in running Cork Simon’s day-to-day operations.
High-support housing

Our High-Support Houses throughout Cork provide intensive levels of round-the-clock care every day for men and women whose health and other personal support needs are such that living independently is not currently sustainable.
50 years of Cork Simon

Anton Wallich-Clifford, a probation officer working in London in the fifties and sixties, founded the Simon Community in London. He travelled to Cork in 1971 to help found Cork Simon Community. A small group of volunteers immediately started a regular count of the number of people sleeping rough and established a nightly Soup Run - a service that continues to operate to this day.

Sponsor a Room

As a Room Sponsor you will be helping to save lives. You give a monthly gift, at an amount you can afford, to provide someone who is homeless with a safe room of their own, everything that goes with that, and a pathway to move into independent living. Believing in people. Read more

Gifts in wills

If you know Cork, you know that we live in a caring community. That sense of belonging, that feeling of community was here before all of us – and will be here long after us. An increasing number of our donors are choosing to remember Cork Simon in their Will – shaping a brighter future and continuing to care for people who are homeless in our community. Read more

50 Faces of Cork Simon

50 Years in the making, decades in the refining. 50 Faces reflecting the thousands of men and women who make us what we are: people believing in people. These are their words, their stories, our experience. Read more

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