# Safety initiative will provide €1 million for homeless

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/07/10/safety-initiative-will-provide-e1-million-homeless/
- Published: 2007-07-10T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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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