Charity Support

LauraLynn is required to incorporate on-going learning into its service development initiatives, but unfortunately the cost of this is considerable.  Rosie & Jim have supported us this quarter by putting funding towards educational and training resources for our nurses and carers.  Funding for educational books and training for development and up-skilling is crucial to the development of the service and care we provide here. 

Sponsorship of our Annual Report

Each year LauraLynn release an Annual Report, where our members, service users and funders can read about our activities and achievements in the past year while learning about our future objectives. It is an invaluable tool for communicating with all our stakeholders. We are hugely grateful to Rosie & Jim for sponsoring our Annual Report this year.

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The student in Dublin City University, have set up a new society this year. The DCU Irish Heart Society. This is a charity run society working with the Irish Heart Society. It is run by students. 

They have regular events, fundraisers etc.  Last year they raised over €600 euro for the Irish Heart Foundation. They  promote healthy lifestyle and run first aid courses for our members. 

Rosie & Jim have donated €100 to DCU Irish Heart Society.

Rosie & Jim are delighted to have donated £400 to a fundraiser for 12 Community Defibrillators.

The fundraiser is being organised by our UK Butchers - Hugh Black & Sons Ltd.

Hugh Black & Sons are raising funds to purchase 12 Community Defibrillators for each of the communities in which High Black & Sons Butchers operate a shop in communities throughout Scotland.

Over 40 members of staff have already been trained in CPR and how to use the defibrillators.

Well done to Hugh Black & Sons staff - it's a fantastic and ambitious fundraising challenge and one well worth supporting!

Check out their Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/HBSButchers

Rosie & Jim were proud to sponsor Courtwood GAA Club, Co. Laois at their Family Fun Day fundraiser on Sunday 31^st May.

The day started off with a 5km race with the prize fund of €600 sponsored by Rosie & Jim.

Other events included Courtwoods Fittest Family and plenty of entertainment for all the family.

The new Courtwood Football Kit was sponsored by Rosie & Jim and presented to the team on the day.

Thanks to all for a fun-tastic day! 

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Sean Mcloughlin & Robert Hogan at Courtwood Sports Day Sponsored by Rosie & Jim

Niall Murphy & Michael Hogan Organisers of Sports Day

First Prize Winner

2nd Runner up

3rd Runner up

4th Runner Up

Ronald McDonald House Charities have awarded Rosie & Jim with a Certificate of Appreciation for our Chicken donations.  Here is a photo of the award pictured with some members of our wonderful staff.

Find out more about Ronald McDonald House Charities on their website - www.rmhc.ie

Rosie & Jim donate €200 to Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services

We received this lovely letter of thanks from the team...

On behalf of all those who use Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services, their family and friends, I would like to extend our most grateful thanks for your generous donation of €200. Your gift will allow us to continue to help our patients to live the last chapter of their lives to the fullest.

Here at Our Lady's Hospice and Care Services, we provide specialist care to people with a wide range of life limiting conditions, both in our hospice and within their homes. Budget cuts and demands on our services mean that we have never needed the help of the local community more to maintain our services.

This donation will help us to further develop our services and to give high quality specialist palliative care to our patients and their families.

Thank you from all of the team here. Your kindness is truly appreciated.

Find out more about Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services on their website - www.olh.ie

For the second time, Rosie & Jim have made a donation towards our most critical need… respite care. 

Respite & end-of-life care are the very heart of what we do here at LauraLynn.  With the urgent focus being on funding LauraLynn@HOME, we desperately need to ensure we continue to receive funding to run the hospice and provide care to the families who come and stay with us.  Heartfelt thanks to Rosie & Jim for once again sponsoring respite care and giving this invaluable gift of time and care to our families.  

Aoife Noons, from Coláiste Íosagáin Portarlington, was the thrilled winner of a Year’s Free Music Tuition!

Rosie & Jim in conjunction with Coláiste Íosagáin were giving a student the chance to win a Year’s Free Tuition with local music school BS#ARP Studios!

All entrants had to:

Tell us WHAT? What instrument do they you want to learn and
Tell us WHY? Why they want to learn it!

Congratulations Aoife, we're looking forward to hear you play on a stage near us soon!

As if winning this great competition wasnt enough for one day, Aoife Noons also raised a lot of money for the Make a Wish foundation when she cut her long hair for the Rapunzal Foundation. Find out more here - http://rapunzelfoundation.com/

Well done Aoife!

Aoife is pictured above with Rosie, from Rosie and Jim and Conor Mitchell & Keith Bracken from Coláiste Íosagáin.

Rosie & Jim were delighted to sponsor chicken for The Kilmainham Inchicore Musical Society fundraising barbecue and treasure hunt last weekend. 

The fundraising event was to help with funding for their forthcoming show THE PAJAMA GAME in early November.

Check out their Facebook page for more details! facebook.com/KilmainhamInchicoreMS

Rosie & Jim were delighted to have sponsored the recent Offaly Hospice Foundation Ltd Benefit night.

The Offaly Hospice Foundation is a fundraising committee that raise funds to give financial support to Palliative Care services in Offaly.

Find out more about them at their website: http://www.offalyhospice.ie/

And make sure to Like their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Offaly-Hospice-387167118144784/timeline/

Rosie & Jim recently sponsored a Gold Classic in aid of There's Something About Mary O. The fundraiser was to help Mary and her family access the best possible cancer treatment not available in Northern Ireland.

Mary is a vibrant member of the Cullyhanna community in Armagh. Both herself and her husband Gerard are great characters and well loved within their local communities. They have regularly fundraised for charitable organisations and therefore their family and friends have set up this non-profit organisation.

In May 2015 Mary was diagnosed on her 42nd birthday with Breast Cancer. Mary remained extremely positive throughout her chemotherapy and surgery, many call her an inspiration! Mary was just returning to normality when again on her next birthday she received the dreaded news that her cancer had spread to her liver. Mary is currently receiving eighteen weeks of full body chemotherapy and long term monoclonal antibody treatment. Unfortunately side effects such as extreme tiredness, mouth ulcers, nausea and hair loss are now taking its toll on Mary and her family.

Mary and Gerard are parents to six children ranging from four up to thirteen years. However they are no strangers to heartache after losing their baby to a congenital heart defect in 2006. Baby Eoin joined the other angels in heaven just after two days old. Throughout all this heartache the couple are hugely positive and are truly inspirational people. They are best friends and have recently celebrated their 21st Wedding Anniversary.

This Young, Vibrant Lady deserves the best of care and treatment to return her to better, if not long term improved health. The fundraising will help to cover costs of alternative remedies and further treatment unavailable locally and not routinely covered by NHS.

Rosie & Jim are delighted to have the opportunity to sponsor such a great cause.

Find out more on their Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/theressomethingaboutmaryo

Delighted to donate our delicious Chicken Goujons to the very worthy cause - Diabetes Ireland.

Diabetes Ireland is the national charity dedicated to helping people with diabetes. They achieve this by providing support, education and motivation to everyone affected by diabetes. Diabetes Ireland also raises public awareness of diabetes and its symptoms and funds research into finding a cure for diabetes.

Well done to all involved - a great night was had!

Find out more about Diabetes Ireland on their website - https://www.diabetes.ie/about-us/our-work/

And keep up to date on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DiabetesIreland/