# Irish charities unite to gather savings money

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/03/14/irish-charities-unite-gather-savings-money/
- Published: 2006-03-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Some of the biggest charities in Ireland have formed alliances to attract donations
from people who will see their Special Savings Investment Accounts mature over the
next year. Concern recently launched its own campaign to gain from the release of
nearly ‚€14 billion into the Irish economy. 
For the first time the Irish Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Barnardos are to make a joint appeal
to SSIA holders. The charities’ appeal, called ‘Go the extra month for children,’
will ask for one month SSIA payment after the finish of the scheme. This has the
potential to raise ‚€212 million for charity.

 

 

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Another alliance will be Ireland’s three children’s hospitals — Temple Street, Tallaght
Children’s Hospital and Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children — and Barretstown 
camp for seriously ill children. The charities have united under the title of The
Little Star Fund.

 

 

Amnesty International, Oxfam and Friends of the Earth are the other main group to
get together. Other charities such as the Simon Community and Trocaire are planning
their own campaigns. Meanwhile, the charity appeal for SSIA money has been endorsed
by an editorial in the Sunday Tribune which has mentioned Amnesty and the Simon 
Community as worthy beneficiaries.

 

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