Latest news from Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation In this May issue about: – Medical Cards Crisis – Updates on recycling programme – New corporate sponsors – Upcoming events and much more… » MAY 2014 NEWSLETTERRead more
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“On behalf of the 300 children under our wing we have been and will continue to be busy on the medical card crisis. Our nurses have formally requested a meeting with Minister Reilly to discuss what his Department calls “the hard cases” which we have documented and to demand that he & his cabinet colleaguesRead more
OUR FIGHT FOR MEDICAL CARDS CONTINUES! “On behalf of the 300 precious children with life limiting or life threatening conditions under our wing, we pledge to continue the fight for automatic medical cards ALL THE WAY. We won’t get sidetracked by the €2.7 million we must raise every year to keep our service going. ThisRead more
TEXT ‘1D4ME’ to 50300 to DONATE €4* and you can WIN 2 x 2 TICKETS (+ accommodation) to the One Direction concert this May in Croke Park *100% of your €4 donation goes to The Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation across most network providers. Some providers apply VAT which means a minimum of €3.26 willRead more
Friends, both old and new, gathered together in the Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin, last Friday, May 9th to remember a very special little boy at Sam’s Lunch and raise much needed funds for the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation! Now in it’s 7th year, 200 guests attended this special lunch which is so kindly organisedRead more
Jack & Jill Foundation specialist children’s nurses from all over the country use platform of Sam’s Annual Lunch today to urge Minister for Health to redesign the broken system of discretionary medical cards! Jack & Jill specialist children’s nurses are using the very special occasion of Baby Sam’s 7th Annual Lunch in aid of theRead more
Big thanks to our friends at Kuehne & Nagel who raised a whopping €26,556 for Jack & Jill through Charity Week of various fundraising events in their locations at Dublin, Shannon and Cork…… Events ranged from a 5 a side soccer tournament, cycle, coffee morning & cake sale and even “dunking the boss” which wasRead more
Diarmuid Gavin added to the excitement of the draw by picking the winning ticket for our Living Room Makeover which took place on Sunday 13th April at the RDS Ideal Home Show. Congratulations to Carlow lady, Sarah Wright, the lucky winner who scooped this fabulous prize! Anne Marie Hamill was delighted as she sold theRead more
Congratulations to Joe Griffin, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway who was the lucky winner of our dear “Black Betty” Limousin Heifer The winning ticket was very kindly picked by Independent T.D., Denis Naughten, at Millar’s Bar, Ballydangan on Saturday 15th April 2014. Locals from near and far enjoyed a great night with a raffle, ceol agus craic.Read more
NCAD student designer Patricia Carroll from Carraroe, Sligo whose design was inspired by weeping willow trees was the winner of the student design award at the Vodafone DIT Fashion Show in Vicar Street, Dublin (Thursday 3rd April) attended by an audience of 1,000 people The theme of this year’s Vodafone DIT Fashion Show, nowRead more