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The Board of the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation announces the appointment of Carmel Doyle, who has worked as Communications Director for the charity for nine years, as the Interim CEO from 1st June 2018.  Carmel is a marketing graduate, fellow and past president of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland, with over 30 years’Read more

RTÉ 2FM is once again teaming up with the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation for this year’s Play The Picnic now in its fifth year The exciting competition will see 10 of Ireland’s best up-and-coming acts win a coveted live set at the country’s biggest music and arts festival, Electric Picnic. Bands, solo artists, singer-songwriters, DJs, rappers, hip-hop artists, you name it… acts of all musical persuasions willRead more

The raffle draw for a brand new Seat Ateca will now take place on Thursday 31st May! Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the Jack & Jill Car Raffle draw which was due to take place on 16th May 2018 has now been rescheduled to Thursday 31st May. We apologize for this situation 🙂 Winner willRead more

INCOGNITO takes top honours at the National Fundraising Awards. Jack & Jill thrilled to accept the Most Innovative Campaign Award The Jack & Jill team including exhibition manager, Lucinda Hall, was delighted to take top honours at the recent National Fundraising Awards. INCOGNITO, our public art initiative, was recognised as the Most Innovative Fundraising CampaignRead more

The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation is urging the HSE to abolish the loco parentis clause in homecare nursing contracts for sick children This clause requires that, while a qualified nurse is caring for their sick child, should a parent need to leave their home, the parent must provide ‘a designated competent individual’ to beRead more

This Mother’s Day, readers can give their special Mum the perfect gift of a Jack & Jill Candle. As well as receiving an exquisite Irish made candle, she will be in with the chance to win a stunning diamond necklace. Inside each Jack & Jill candle is a capsule which contains an eye-catching costume diamondRead more

Calling all motorists If passing through the following Toll Plazas, make a donation in the collection buckets placed at the cashier desks of the manual lanes: M1 Drogheda M7/M8 Portlaoise N25 Waterford M4/M6 Kilcock-Kinnegad M3 Clonee-Kells (Meath) Limerick Tunnel M8 Fermoy N6 Galway-Ballinasloe Please give what you can to this fundraising event which coincides withRead more

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us at O’Loughlin Gaels GAA Club last Saturday for our 5th Annual Jack & Jill Kilkenny Cycle  Dry weather prevailed, although a little on the cool side,  while cyclists took on the 2 routes taking in some outstanding picturesque views along the way not to mention one orRead more

REGISTER NOW and make a difference to Irish families using Jack & Jill’s nursing and respite services The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation supported by Bank of Ireland have launched the Up the Hill for Jack & Jill fundraiser 2017 this week. The charity fundraiser in aid of the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation isRead more

Jack & Jill were delighted and honoured to be the chosen charity for the 4th year in a row for one of the highlights in the summer social calendar which raised an amazing €64,000 equating to 4,000 hours of home nursing respite care in Jack & Jill currency.  Our sincere thanks to Dubai Duty FreeRead more