# Rory McIlroy pledges up to £500,000 for Mencap Northern Ireland

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/06/12/rory-mcilroy-pledges-up-to-500000-for-mencap-northern-ireland/
- Published: 2015-06-12T08:20:22+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Rory Foundation, the charitable foundation set up by world number one golfer
Rory McIlroy, has pledged £250,000 for Mencap Northern Ireland with the possibility
of a further £250,000 if they can match the donation.**

The donation will go towards Mencap’s Big Step Forward appeal which is raising money
for a new facility in Belfast for children with learning disabilities. Mencap launched
the appeal in 2014 to raise £1.7million to build, equip and run the new centre by
January 2016.

According to Mencap the appeal has raised £1.2 million so far. The second pledge
of £250,000 will be provided by the Rory Foundation if the charity matches that 
sum from other sources.

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Last year the Foundation donated £1 million to open a new support centre for children
with cancer, Daisy Lodge in Newcastle, County Down, a therapeutic short-break centre.

At the end of May [The Rory Foundation](http://roryfoundation.com) hosted the 2015
Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at the Royal County Down Golf Club.

 

_Rory McIlroy – photo: [Edbalaun on Flickr.com](https://flic.kr/p/9Uje3U)_