# Irish fundraising awards winners announced 

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/22/irish-fundraising-awards-winners-announced-2/
- Published: 2016-06-22T10:10:53+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**CMRF, the fundraising body for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, has won
the top award in the 2016 Fundraising Ireland Excellence in Fundraising Awards.**

 

The CMRF campaign asked people to give something up for Lent in 2015 and grossed
€327,000 and net €265,000. The campaign was a mixture of traditional advertising
and innovative use of online.

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Other awards from [Fundraising Ireland](http://www.fundraisingireland.ie) included:

 

 *   **Big Impact, Small Budget** for One in Four – One Day at One in Four
 *   **Best Use of Direct Marketing** for Merchants Quay Ireland – Give Back What
   Homelessness Takes and Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services – Hugh’s Hospice Appeal
 *   **Best Use of Digital in Fundraising** for Trócaire – Trócaire’s Lent Campaign
 *   **Best Use of Events** for Jigsaw Galway – Bradley Renault Giro D’Galway
 *   **Best Use of Legacy Fundraising** for Dogs Trust – Dogs Trust Legacy Development
   Campaign
 *   **Best CSR Programme** – Lidl Ireland
 *   **Best Corporate Charity Partnership** for PeterMarkathon – Peter Mark & Aware
 *   **Supplier of the Year** – Hibernia Evros
 *   **Volunteer [Fundraiser](https://fundraising.co.uk/) of the Year** ISPCC Childline–
   Mary Dunne and Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services — Gerry McDonagh
 *   **Fundraising Team of the Year** – Dogs Trust
 *   **Professional Fundraiser of the Year** – Mary O’Donovan – Focus Ireland
 *   **Best Emerging Fundraiser** – Barnardos – Sharon Coakley
 *   **People’s Choice Award** –  Applegreen & CMRF Partnership

 

 

 

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Meanwhile, [in Northern Ireland the Institute of Fundraising](http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/groups/national-northern-ireland)
presented its awards for 2016. The winners were:

 

 * **Fundraising Event** – Up the Lagan in a Bubble – Cancer Focus
 * **Fundraising Partnership** – Cancer Research UK and Citi Group Belfast
 * **Fundraising Volunteer** – Dermot Breen, Cancer Research UK
 * **Fundraising Team** – Mencap

 * **[Details of Irish fundraising conference revealed](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/01/28/details-irish-fundraising-conference-announced/)**(
   28 January 2014)
 * **[Fundraising Ireland to provide fundraising mentoring opportunities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/10/24/fundraising-ireland-provide-fundraising-mentoring-opportunities/)**(
   24 October 2014)
 * **[Fundraising Ireland’s 2015 awards open for nominations](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/11/09/fundraising-ireland-awards-open-nominations/)**(
   9 November 2014)

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