# CRH donate over €800,000 to homeless

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/07/27/crh-donate-over-e800000-homeless/
- Published: 2009-07-27T10:34:30+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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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.

 

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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