Voluntary Committee

Volunteering - your time is a gift

Our Cork Simon Annual Fundraising Ball is organised by a voluntary committee of Cork's key business leaders. Year after year they gift their skills, experience and network of contacts to ensure our Fundraising Ball is an outstanding success and the evening raises funds that are vital to Cork Simon Community.

The voluntary committee would be delighted to hear from you to talk to you about how you can support our next Annual Fundraising Ball in 2025.

Voluntary Chair: Eoin Gunn

Head of Business Banking, AIB Capital Markets, Cork

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Voluntary Committee Member: Ruth Fuller

Managing Director, Fuller Marketing

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Voluntary Committee Member: John Burchill

Operations Manager, Hayfield Manor

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Voluntary Committee Member: Elizabeth Hegarty

Associate Director, Savills Ireland

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Voluntary Committee Member: Hilary O'Shea

Co-Founder and Chief Corporate Officer at Otonomee

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Voluntary Committee Member: Marguerite O’Sullivan

Director of Learning & Development Kenvue

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Voluntary Committee Member: Leigh Gillen

Leigh Gillen Events

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Voluntary Committee Member: Breffne McKenna

Group Director of Golf, Mayrange Hospitality Group, Hospitality Industry

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Voluntary Committee Member: Alan Bruce

Company Director Invoyne

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Voluntary Committee Member: Ray Egan

Director at PWC

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Voluntary Committee Member: John Fuller

Partner at J.W. O'Donovan Solicitors

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Voluntary Committee Member: Louise Smith

Partner at RDJ

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Voluntary Committee Member: Julianne O'Sullivan

Partner at Quintas

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Voluntary Committee Member: Jonathan Healy

Managing Partner at Healy Communications

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Single Adults Living with their Parents: When there are no alternatives - service user experiences

The housing crisis has a long and broad reach, impacting every sector of society. Our third Home Truths paper demonstrates how it's keeping young adults stuck in their childhood bedrooms, unable to live independently of their parents. But it doesn't end there. Should the family relationship break down their housing options are severely limited, pushing them into homelessness. Some of them shared their experiences with Sophie Johnston.
Single Adults Living with their Parents: When the private rental sector is your most likely option

There's been a marked shift in the rates of owner-occupied, private-rented and social-rented households. It's most stark among the over 30s, with the majority now in private-rented accommodation. Sophie Johnston, the author of our third Home Truths paper: Single Adults Living with their Parents, explores why this is a concerning development given that 2 in every 5 single adults new to emergency accommodation in the Southwest come from the private rented sector.
Single Adults Living with their Parents: When you cannot afford to move out

The largest proportional increase in single adults living with parents has not been among the youngest adult age groups, as might be expected with increasing time spent in education; it has been among 25-29 year olds, the significant majority of whom are in employment. On foot of our third Home Truths paper: Single Adults Living with their Parents, Sophie Johnston explores how a dysfunctional housing market is preventing young adults from living independently of their parents.
Opening Doors Spring 2024

At the Soup Run, there’s a feeling of sadness when you see someone new, because that means another person is struggling to make ends meet. With your kind help, the Soup Run provides vital help that goes far beyond a hot meal, for people who are homeless in Cork.

Fundraising Ball Sponsors

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.
Making a Difference

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.

Work with us

Cork Simon Community is committed to equality of opportunity. We are currently recruiting for Housing First Project Workers, Project Support Workers and Outreach Project Worker.
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.
Donate

Please donate to help someone who is homeless in Cork make a fresh start.
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.
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."
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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

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

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

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.

Homeless watch

752 men, women and children were depending on emergency accommodation in Cork and Kerry in February 2024.

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

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

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

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

Home Truths: Single Adults Living with their Parents

MARCH 2024. Exploring the increasing proportion of younger adults having to live with their parents and the over-representation of younger adults in emergency accommodation. Read more

Donate

Please donate to help someone who is homeless in Cork make a fresh start.
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