# Religious congregation to donate €5 million to homeless people

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/04/08/religious-congregation-to-donate-e5-million-to-homeless-people/
- Published: 2019-04-08T15:38:30+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin has announced it will donate €5 million for 
a housing initiative for homeless people.**

The donation will fund the building of 25 homes by homelessness charity the Peter
McVerry Trust.

The donation followed consideration at the centre about how it could best respond
to the homelessness crisis, according to its founder Brother Kevin Crowley. He told
[RTÉ Today](https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2019/0408/1041277-capuchin-housing/) 
that he and his colleagues had found the rise in the number of families needing 
its services “truly shocking”, adding that “it troubles us greatly that children
in our country have nowhere to call home.”

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The Capuchin Day Centre helps around 300 people a day by providing food, clothing,
showers and medical attention.

Brother Crowley added that “after careful consideration and advice, we decided to
fund a housing initiative via Peter McVerry Trust to secure a minimum of 25 housing
units for those in greatest need”.

## Charities Regulator advice

The Centre also took advice from the Charities Regulator to ensure that the donation
was made appropriately and complied with best practice.

Speaking to [RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke](http://www.rte.ie/news/ireland), Brother
Kevin said that “very generous donations” from the public over the last year had
enabled the centre to make the €5 million donation, adding that the Pope’s visit
last year had been “a huge boost”.

Peter McVerry Trust CEO Pat Doyle said the money for its development programme was
the single biggest donation ever received by the Trust. He said it will help to 
take people out of bed and breakfasts and hotels.

The Peter McVerry Trust had an income of nearly €25 million in 2017, of which €9
million was from donations.
  

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