Factsheets

8,082 men, women and children in emergency accommodation nationally during the week of 19 - 25 April 2021.

579 men, women and children in emergency accommodation here in the Southwest (Cork & Kerry).

HOMELESS FIGURES

Each month, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government publishes figures on the number of people depending on emergency accommodation nationally and regionally.

The most recent set of figures published cover the week of 19-25 April 2021.

Download April 2021 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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"The support available through Cork Simon has made a huge difference to the lives of the individuals but also to their families."

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Cork Simon Community is committed to equality of opportunity. We are not recruiting at present.
Donate

Will you support the Cork Simon Soup Run? People who are homeless are vulnerable and still need you. Please give a gift today.
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.
50 Faces: Jim

"The support available through Cork Simon has made a huge difference to the lives of the individuals but also to their families."
Housing first

Our Housing First service supports people to move out of homelessness as quickly as possible and into permanent affordable housing. We then support people in their own home to sustain their housing and improve their health, wellbeing and social integration.
50 Faces: Eoin

“Everybody is working together to make something amazing happen."
Get Help

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

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

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. Read more

Donate

Will you support the Cork Simon Soup Run? People who are homeless are vulnerable and still need you. Please give a gift today. Read more

Donate

50 Faces: Ann O'Leary

“We don’t fix people; we help people to better their lives in whatever way they chose for us to help them.” Read more