Safety initiative will provide ‚€1 million for homeless
Howard Lake | 10 July 2007 | News
Building supplies group CRH, the largest company in Ireland, is joining forces with the Simon Communities of Ireland and Simon Northern Ireland in rolling out an ambitious new charity venture that will see CRH making an annual contribution of up to ‚€1 million towards the campaign to end homelessness while achieving improved safety in the workplace.
The CRH Simon Safety Challenge will be an all-island initiative and will assist in Simon’s work in tackling homelessness north and south of the border. For every accident free quarter (3 months) achieved at any CRH company location across the island of Ireland, a sum of money will be donated to the Simon Community operating in that region.
Company locations that achieve a full accident-free year will get to donate an additional 25% bonus payment on top of the four combined quarterly donations. Local company employee representatives will present the donations to their local Simon Communities on a 6 monthly basis. Simon Communities in Dublin, Dundalk, Cork, Galway, the South East, the Midlands, the Northwest and Midwest and Simon Community Northern Ireland will all benefit from the Challenge.
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Launching the initiative, Donal Dempsey, Regional Managing Director with CRH said the theme of shelter provision was all important. CRH is one of the largest building material suppliers in the world and we see an immediate connection with an organisation like Simon, who are synonymous with helping to shelter and house the most vulnerable members of our society. Every single member of our 7,000 strong workforce north and south will be involved in the success of this very worthy project.
The companies participating in the Challenge include the building materials providers Roadstone, Northstone and John A Wood as well as Ireland’s largest cement producer Irish Cement Ltd.
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