# Charity refuses cycle donation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/11/11/charity-refuses-cycle-donation/
- Published: 2005-11-11T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

KERRY’S largest charity event, the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle, was embroiled in
controversy last week after one of the charities nominated to receive money from
the fundraiser declined to accept a cheque at the event’s annual dinner dance. It
is understood that there is a dispute about the amount of money raised by the Diabetes
Service, the intended recipient, in advance of the charity cycle.

Secretary of Kerry Diabetes Service Ann Murphy and other members of the organisation
attended the dinner dance where over ‚€172,000 was shared out between four charity
organisations. However, Kerry Diabetes Service refused to accept their cheque from
the organising committee.

The money to be shared out comprised money raised by each of the charities in advance
of the Ring of Kerry Cycle plus an equal share of the money collected on the day
of the event.

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Kerry Diabetes Services Chairperson Jimmy Reen told a local newspaper that his organisation
did not accept the cheque at Thursday night’s function in Killarney, but he declined
to comment further.

Mr Reen said the matter is now in the hands of the organisation’s legal advisors.

This was the first time that Kerry Diabetes Services was nominated to be one of 
the recipients of the money raised by The Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle.

The other three recipients of money from this year’s fundraiser – the Christy Brown
Centre in Tralee, the South Kerry Life Education Mobile Unit and the Irish Handicapped
Children’s Pilgrimage Trust – all accepted their cheques on the night.

Chairperson of the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle Committee Denis Geaney said the uncollected
money has been lodged in a bank account for the Kerry Diabetes Services.

‘It is up to them to accept it. I was disappointed they did not accept the cheque
but this has nothing to do with us as a committee, he said.

Mr Geaney, a former winner of the Kerry Person of the Year Award, confirmed that
over ‚€47,000 had been divided equally between the four charities from money raised
on the day of the cycle.

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