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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50 Faces: Máire

“I felt a kind of an instant rapport. I'm not looking back with rose-tinted glasses because I still feel that today.”
50 Faces: David Lane

"Cork Simon builds respect for people who are challenged in many ways and they work really hard to turn things around."
testing Mockya Marathon Fundraiser
Christina's Fundraiser

I'm participating in Cork Simon's Mockya Marathon on 19 September to raise funds in support of every woman and man turning to them for help. Please help me reach my fundraising goal.

Mockya Marathon 2021

Will you step up to support our services by completing 10,000 steps in your own area? Our Mockya Marathon takes place on Sunday, 19 September 2021. Wherever you are in the Rebel County – North, South, East or West – step up with us! Need more info? Give Margaret O’Sullivan a buzz on 021 4929 415.
Work with us

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.
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 Faces: Máire

“I felt a kind of an instant rapport. I'm not looking back with rose-tinted glasses because I still feel that today.”
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.
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.

Yoga in the Park

Yoga in the Park is back to make this summer even better. Join us every Saturday morning at 10.00am until 04 September at Fitzgerald's Park, Cork in aid of Cork Simon. Kindly organised by Himalaya Yoga Valley Cork. Read more

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

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 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

Mockya Marathon 2021

Will you step up to support our services by completing 10,000 steps in your own area? Our Mockya Marathon takes place on Sunday, 19 September 2021. Wherever you are in the Rebel County – North, South, East or West – step up with us! Need more info? Give Margaret O’Sullivan a buzz on 021 4929 415. Read more

Donate Fundraise

50 Faces: Máire

“I felt a kind of an instant rapport. I'm not looking back with rose-tinted glasses because I still feel that today.” Read more