2021 was a milestone year for us as we marked our 50th anniversary; 50 years of believing in people; believing that everyone who calls Cork home should have a home. During 2021 we offered care and support, dignity and hope to 1,027 people. Read more
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
529 men and women were depending on emergency accommodation in Cork in January 2023 - the highest on record. Our Emergency Shelter is overflowing. People are staying longer because they have no other options. Rents in Cork continue to rise while supply remains at an all-time low; Rent Supplement & Housing Assistance Payments fall well-short of current market rents. See the figures behind the crisis in our regularly updated Homeless Watch. Read more
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A voluntary committee of some of Cork's key business leaders is responsible for organising our Cork Simon Annual Fundraising Ball each Year. Ruth Fuller is this year's voluntary Chair. Hear why Ruth and the other voluntary members are getting involved. Read more
Our Cork Simon Annual Fundraising Ball is a unique opportunity for companies interested in placing their brand in front of a captive audience of corporates and high net-worth individuals. See some of those companies that sponsor our Ball year after year. Read more
There are many ways your company can get involved in our Annual Fundraising Ball in a way that your key stakeholders and the broader Cork community will see you working in partnership with Cork Simon to create solutions to homelessness. Read more
Through a very difficult winter your kindness and compassion has transformed lives. And offered incredible hope for the future. Find out how in your Opening Doors Spring 2023 newsletter. Read more
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
My name is James. I’m living proof of the difference you can make by supporting Cork Simon. Please will you give an urgent gift to help someone who is sleeping rough escape life on the streets of Cork? Read more
2021 was better because of you! Thank you for the lives you changed. And the hope you spread. Read more
"Accept yourself. It gives you confidence, gratitude, hope, strength, self-worth. It gives you a shield around you." - Joan. Read more
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to assist in the provision of health and social care for clients. Must demonstrate the ability to ensure that all clients are treated with dignity and respect. Read more
In 2020, Covid-19 had a far-reaching impact on all our services – not least on the men and women depending on them. Those services became ever more essential to keep everyone as safe and protected as possible. Read more
“Cork Simon means safe, and happiness, and peace.” Read more
“Cork is a small enough city that we can help each other. It means we can all take care of each other.” Read more
"They feel they’re wanted in the area, and they’re accepted in the area.” Read more
“It changes people's lives, and it helps people to be alive - there are people in recovery today, and if they weren't, they may no longer be with us.” Read more
“Cork Simon was the foundation; it's why I am where I am today." Read more
“Shelter is a basic need, it's not something we can compromise on”. Read more
“There was a certain spontaneity about the whole thing and once it got started, it had a momentum of its own and it was unstoppable.” Read more
“Working here truly gives me the experience of connecting theories from my study with my work here.” Read more
"Peace of mind is priceless...and having a house is definitely peace of mind." Read more
"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
“It was just my place. It was like a job made for me.” Read more
“You see, Cork people have a heart and there was a heart in Simon.” Read more
“The way I see Cork Simon is they saved my life really, with all the opportunities that I was given.” Read more
Evaluating the responses of the Simon Communities to the challenges posed by Covid-19 during the successive waves of the pandemic from March 2020 to August 2021. It represents the concluding phase of a larger study encompassing two prior reports. Read more
“It’s a human face, it’s a hot meal, it’s a listening ear.” Read more
“It’s a place where people can come to heal if they’ve been really hurt.” Read more
“I think a key aspect of community, for all of us, is that sense of having people in your life.” Read more
“It's a celebration of women; women helping other women.” Read more
“I don’t think you can get involved in touching the face of humanity without being transformed by it.” Read more
“The need to recognise a person's entitlement and basic need for adequate and secure housing has to be brought into the 21st century in this country.” Read more
We believe in them and they can believe in us - we’re reliable, we’re there, we don’t let them down. Read more
“You need hobbies. It’s just to get up to do it. Your head won’t be racing then.” Read more
“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
"Cork Simon builds respect for people who are challenged in many ways and they work really hard to turn things around." Read more
“With Simon and with Ireland in general, I felt I came home.” Read more
"We’re all there for one thing and that's to help people." Read more
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
“There's an infectious enthusiasm in Simon. There’s a sense of everyone being in this together.” Read more
“We have a small community with a huge heart and the success of this whole event really is the work of many hands.” Read more