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Personal development

Employment and training

Employment and training

Our employment & training team supports people who have often left school early and are long-term unemployed to complete their formal education, retrain and return to the workforce. Read more

Published: 14th May, 2019

Updated: 25th August, 2021

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Job placement

Job placement

Getting people back to work and back to participating in the wider community can make all the difference in helping to make sure people leave homelessness behind them. Read more

Published: 12th May, 2019

Updated: 25th August, 2021

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Women and homelessness

Women and homelessness

We are proud to be part of the Erasmus+ Women and Homelessness strategic partnership, which unites organisations working with people experiencing homelessness – among them, women. Read more

Published: 11th May, 2019

Updated: 25th August, 2021

Author: Paul Sheehan

Making positive changes

Making positive changes

Our Activities Team – also known as our A-team, works across all our services, creating opportunities for people to build social support networks, build self-confidence, and interact positively with the wider community. Read more

Published: 10th May, 2019

Updated: 25th August, 2021

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  • Home Truth: Rents in Cork unsustainably high for average earner.

    Home Truth: Rents in Cork unsustainably high for average earner.

    Rents in Cork continue to increase - up over 10% in the city in the twelve months to Qtr 3 2023. Following our recent Home Truths papers - Single Homelessness in the Southwest and Vacant Homes in Cork, Sophie Johnston explores how single households in private rented accommodation are at increasing risk of homelessness, while single households stuck in emergency accommodation are faced with the near impossibility of private rented housing offering them a route out of homelessness.

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  • Vacant Homes in Cork: Vacant Homes Tax and international comparisons.

    Vacant Homes in Cork: Vacant Homes Tax and international comparisons.

    With housing supply - and the associated cost of housing, continuing to be a significant factor in our long-running homelessness crisis, we must explore every option to increase supply. In our second Home Truths paper: Vacant Homes in Cork, Sophie Johnston reviews measures some other jurisdictions have implemented to address vacancy as one way of improving housing supply. She summarises them here. Are there lessons for us to learn as we grapple with our own housing crisis?

  • Vacant Homes in Cork: Long-term vacant rental properties in the midst of a housing crisis.

    Vacant Homes in Cork: Long-term vacant rental properties in the midst of a housing crisis.

    As we publish our second Home Truths paper - Vacant Homes in Cork, which explores long-term vacancy in particular, Sophie Johnston summarises the report's key findings on rental homes. With a focus on stemming the flow of people being pushed into homelessness and creating more routes for people to exit homelessness quickly, do the findings present an opportunity to improve the supply of much-needed private rented homes?

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  • Work with us

    Cork Simon Community is committed to equality of opportunity. We are currently recruiting for a Senior Corporate Partnerships Officer, Casual Support Worker, Housing Officer (Full-Time / Permanent) and a Tenancy Management Co-ordinator (Waterford).

  • Factsheets

    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.

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    Donate

    Please give now to help provide a Christmas dinner, a safe, warm place to stay and a new start

  • Christmas Jumper Day

    Christmas Jumper Day

    Will you hold a Cork Simon Christmas Jumper Day so we can be there for every man and woman turning to us for help this Christmas?
    No one wants their child to grow up to be homeless at Christmas."
    Sign-up today - it's More Than a Gift.

  • Get Help

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

  • Part time volunteering

    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.

  • Services team

    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

    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.

  • High-support housing

    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.

  • Emergency shelter

    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.

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Homeless watch

Homeless watch

778 men, women and children were depending on emergency accommodation in Cork and Kerry in September 2023.

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

Published: 26th June, 2019

Updated: 24th November, 2023

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Sponsor a Room

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

Published: 26th August, 2020

Updated: 30th May, 2023

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50 Faces of Cork Simon

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

Published: 2nd September, 2022

Updated: 24th November, 2023

Author: Will Rossi

Annual Impact Report 2022

Annual Impact Report 2022

During 2022, we offered care and support, dignity and hope to 1,370 people - a 33% increase compared to 2021. As the last of the Covid restrictions lifted, we quickly restored all our services and responded to additional demand by increasing capacity. Read more

Published: 30th September, 2022

Updated: 24th November, 2023

Author: Paul Sheehan

Christmas Cards

Christmas Cards

Our Cork Simon Christmas Cards are now available in packs of 12, featuring all four festive designs.
Order your cards today to make sure you have them in plenty of time for posting. Read more

Published: 18th October, 2022

Updated: 24th November, 2023

Author: Paul Sheehan

Home Truths: Vacant Homes in Cork

Home Truths: Vacant Homes in Cork

OCTOBER 2023. Exploring vacant homes - particularly long-term vacancy, in Cork. Read more

Published: 30th August, 2023

Updated: 24th November, 2023

Author: Paul Sheehan

Christmas Jumper Day

Christmas Jumper Day

Will you hold a Cork Simon Christmas Jumper Day so we can be there for every man and woman turning to us for help this Christmas?
No one wants their child to grow up to be homeless at Christmas."
Sign-up today - it's More Than a Gift. Read more

Published: 1st September, 2023

Updated: 24th November, 2023

Author: Christina Giliberti

Donate

Donate

Please give now to help provide a Christmas dinner, a safe, warm place to stay and a new start
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Published: 30th September, 2023

Updated: 21st November, 2023

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Company Registration Number: 42511
Registered Charity Number: 20022914
Revenue CHY Number: 9155

Registered office: 4 Lapp's Quay, Cork, T12 KT61.

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