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Research

Sustaining the accelerant?

Sustaining the accelerant?

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

Published: 30th September, 2021

Updated: 1st October, 2021

Author: Paul Sheehan

Covid-19 experiences

Covid-19 experiences

This small-scale qualitative study explores the experiences of service users across Simon Communities of Ireland’s services, during the various phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. It represents the second phase of a larger study encompassing three reports. Read more

Published: 10th February, 2021

Updated: 3rd November, 2021

Author: Paul Sheehan

Systems accelerant?

Systems accelerant?

Evaluating the responses of the Simon Communities to the challenges posed by Covid-19 across the eight regions in which Simon operates, during the ‘first wave’ of the pandemic in the period March to August 2020. Part one of a 3-part series. Read more

Published: 9th February, 2021

Updated: 1st October, 2021

Author: Paul Sheehan

A working life: Part two

A working life: Part two

September 2020: The Continuing Journey. In this second part of our longitudinal research series, the focus is on the difference that working makes to the lives of the participants, the challenges they faced and the factors that helped and hindered them to sustain work. Read more

Published: 27th July, 2020

Updated: 2nd November, 2020

Author: Paul Sheehan

A working life: Part one

A working life: Part one

October 2019: The Early Days. Part one of our research series giving voice to the experiences of people as they move into employment with Cork Simon support. Their motivations, challenges and the supports they valued in their early weeks are explored. Read more

Published: 21st July, 2020

Updated: 1st October, 2020

Author: Paul Sheehan

Last resort

Last resort

October 2018: Vulnerabilities, Resilience and Quality-of-Life in a Homeless Population. This research report is based on 69 one-to-one interviews conducted over an eighteen-month period with 24 men and 12 women staying at our emergency shelter. Read more

Published: 1st October, 2018

Updated: 18th September, 2020

Author: Paul Sheehan

Trauma informed care

Trauma informed care

October 2017: A Model of Best Practice. This research is based on a collaborative study with UCC and HSE, and explores the connection between early childhood trauma and later negative life events among people using our services. Read more

Published: 1st October, 2017

Updated: 17th September, 2020

Author: Paul Sheehan

Home truths

Home truths

October 2016: Trying to Find a Home When You're Homeless. This research explores the impact of the housing crisis on attempts by people stuck in our emergency shelter to find housing they can afford to leave homelessness behind. Read more

Published: 1st October, 2016

Updated: 18th September, 2020

Author: Paul Sheehan

Easing the pressure

Easing the pressure

October 2015: In the midst of a housing and homeless crisis, this report assesses the outcomes to-date of Cork Simon’s Social Rentals Model of housing and explores how this approach can help address the housing and homeless crisis in Cork. Read more

Published: 1st October, 2015

Updated: 18th September, 2020

Author: Paul Sheehan

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  • Open Garden - The Water Margin

    Open Garden - The Water Margin

    A perfect way to spend a few hours outdoors this August Bank Holiday Weekend. Explore the beauty of this one and a half acre mature garden at Cappanacush East near Kenmare on 30 & 31 July and 01 August - all in aid of Cork Simon.

  • Joan

    Joan

    "Accept yourself. It gives you confidence, gratitude, hope, strength, self-worth. It gives you a shield around you." - Joan.

  • Homeless Watch

    Homeless Watch

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  • Work with us

    Cork Simon Community is committed to equality of opportunity. We are not currently recruiting.

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  • Jumper Day 2021

    Jumper Day 2021

    Every year, people across Cork get together to help us support people experiencing homelessness by wearing their Christmas jumpers to work, school or anywhere they can to raise much-needed funds. Sign-up today. Thank you to everyone that took part in 2021.

  • 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.

  • Get Help

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

  • 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.

  • 50 years of Cork Simon

    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.

  • Senior management team

    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: Caitlín

    50 Faces: Caitlín

    “We have a small community with a huge heart and the success of this whole event really is the work of many hands.”

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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: 19th January, 2022

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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: 11th February, 2021

Updated: 7th June, 2022

Author: Will Rossi

Annual Impact Report 2020

Annual Impact Report 2020

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

Published: 28th January, 2022

Updated: 1st February, 2022

Author: Paul Sheehan

Yoga in the Park

Yoga in the Park

Yoga in the Park is back again this summer. Join us every Saturday morning at 10.00am until 03 September at Fitzgerald's Park, Cork in aid of Cork Simon. Kindly organised by Himalaya Yoga Valley Cork. Read more

Start: 2nd July, 2022 at 10:00am

End: 3rd September, 2022 at 11:15am

Published: 26th May, 2022

Updated: 28th June, 2022

Author: Paul Sheehan

Location: Fitzgerald's Park Bandstand, Mardyke, Cork, T12 AW6R

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Published: 27th May, 2022

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Open Garden - The Water Margin

Open Garden - The Water Margin

A perfect way to spend a few hours outdoors this August Bank Holiday Weekend. Explore the beauty of this one and a half acre mature garden at Cappanacush East near Kenmare on 30 & 31 July and 01 August - all in aid of Cork Simon. Read more

Start: 30th July, 2022 at 1:00pm

End: 1st August, 2022 at 5:00pm

Published: 29th June, 2022

Author: Paul Sheehan

Location: Cappanacush East, Greenane, County Kerry, V93 RW88

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

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