Christmas Jumper Day

December 2020 – Event has taken place

Where’s me Jumper?! Thousands of you here in Cork donned your Christmas jumpers, dazzle and tinsel bringing Jumper Joy to your home, office, school and online. Vets. Students. Teachers. Lecturers. Hotel staff. Operators. So many to mention. Thank you all for making our Cork Simon Christmas Jumper Day such a rip roaring success in very challenging circumstances. You are simply the best!

The money you raised will help keep our doors open for every man and woman here in Cork depending on them.

A Massive thank you to everyone for bringing the Jumper Joy – a community spirit our founders 50 years ago would be so proud of. Thank you for believing in people.

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Musgrave Business Services Christmas Jumper Day

I want to make Christmas extra special this year!

I'm organising a Cork Simon Christmas Jumper Day in support of people experiencing homelessness here in Cork.

Please join me in spreading the Jumper Joy - where ever you may be. Let's work together to help people experiencing homelessness here in Cork this Christmas.
50 Faces: Barbara-Anne

"When I consider the foundations of the relationship with Cork Simon, we both have a shared understanding of community and respect for people."
50 Faces: Patricia

“It was just my place. It was like a job made for me.”
50 Faces: Glenys

“You see, Cork people have a heart and there was a heart in Simon.”

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Cork Simon Community is committed to equality of opportunity. We are currently recruiting for a Casual Project Support Worker and a Needle Exchange Outreach Support Worker.
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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.
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Details of services and contact numbers if you are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless.
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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.
50 Faces: Marnie

“It’s a human face, it’s a hot meal, it’s a listening ear.”
Emergency shelter

Our Emergency Shelter on Anderson’s Quay, in the heart of Cork’s city centre, provides round-the-clock temporary accommodation and one-to one support. Our emergency shelter supports men and women over 18 years of age.
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.

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

Donate

People who are homeless are vulnerable and still need you. Please give a gift today. Read more

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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

50 Faces: Barbara-Anne

"When I consider the foundations of the relationship with Cork Simon, we both have a shared understanding of community and respect for people." Read more