# Concern launches SSIA giving programme

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/03/06/concern-launches-ssia-giving-programme/
- Published: 2006-03-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Concern has begun a campaign to raise money from the release of money from an Irish
tax scheme called the Special Saving Investment Account which will see ‚€14 billion
injected into the Irish economy over the next year. The SSIA savers will each receive
an average of ‚€13,673, some 25 percent of which was provided by the government 
to encourage saving. 
Concern took out a full page advertisement in a major Irish
Sunday newspaper to ask people to look beyond using the money for holidays, cars
and TVs which research shows will be high on people’s shopping list.

 

 

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“We know that people have saved for a long time for their SSIA and we are only asking
for a very small proportion of their payout as this could go a very long way towards
helping others less fortunate,” Tom Arnold, Concern CEO said.

 

 

Concern is pitching its ask at the high end with examples of what ‚€250, ‚€500 and‚
€1000 will achieve.

 

 

A group of charities under the umbrella of Pennies from Heaven, which got together
to raise money around the change-over to the Euro, is also considering a SSIA campaign
but no firm decisions have been made yet.

 

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