CRH donate over €800,000 to homeless
Howard Lake | 27 July 2009 | News
Ireland’s biggest company, CRH, has made a donation of €842,355 to support the work of charities working with the homeless in Ireland.
The donation is part of ongoing support for the Simon Communities in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland based on a workplace safety initiative.
For every accident-free three months achieved at any CRH workplace on the island of Ireland, a sum of money is donated to the Simon Community operating in that area, up to a maximum of €1 million over the course of the year. Bonus payments are made if locations have a full accident-free year.
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There are a number of regional Simon Communities in the Republic and in Northern Ireland who have benefited from the safety challenge to date. This year’s donation is an increase of more than €65,300 on last year’s sum, due to fewer on-site accidents.
Simon Communities of Ireland chairman Denis Doherty said it was “truly remarkable” what had been achieved with the money donated by CRH since 2007.
Some of the funds donated last year helped to run the Dublin Simon emergency shelter on Harcourt Street; to open the Midlands Simon Community’s first emergency service; and to provide more than 24,000 hot meals to people in Cork. Mr Doherty said the new emergency service in the midlands had been “very busy” and this indicated that there was much need that had not been identified.
Jim Farrell of CRH said providing shelter was the “bread and butter” of CRH’s business so it was appropriate that they supported a charity that tackled homelessness.
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