Every week our Friday Fundraising column highlights charity initiatives being undertaken against the background of sport and engaging with the business community. If you have a Charity event that you would like us to feature please let us know and we will do our best to shine whatever light we can on what you are doing…
100,000 Steps
An effort to raise €100,000 for Pieta House is underway in Galway this weekend with almost 60 All Ireland winning captains from the GAA taking part in memory of Cormac Connolly.
His Uncle Joe was Galway’s winning captain in 1980 and he has helped to gather illustrious names like DJ Carey from Kilkenny, Anthony Daly and Patrick Donnellan from Clare and 2,500 walkers covering 88KM walks over this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Each of the walkers have been asked to pledge €20 while a total of 100 individuals, clubs and businesses have been targeted for a figure of €500 in support of the event.
Hitting the Greens for the Green Army
The Irish Women’s Hockey team are hosting a Golf day at Edmondstown Golf Club in Dublin in Friday 26th September as they continue their build up to qualification for the Rio Olympics.
The team will stage a major qualifying tournament at UCD next March and are raising funds to assist with the extra preparation that can get them over the line having narrowly missed out on making it to London 2012.
In April they came second in a Champions’ Challenge event in Glasgow depute being seeded 7 of the 8 participating teams. Businesses who would like to help the team in a small way can enter a team of four for €400 or sponsor a hole for €200. Contact Nikki Evans on GreenArmyGolf[at]gmail.com if you feel that you can help.
Paris-Nice
Almost 100 cyclists are taking place next month in the famous Paris-Nice cycle hoping to raise hundreds of thousands of Euros for a variety of causes.
Adie McGennis from Sigmar Recruitment and Greg Clarke of Digicom and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce have been training hard while top Dublin Chefs Derry Clark of l’Ecrivain and Ross Lewis of Chapter One will also be pounding out the kilometres. This is the first time Lewis has attempted such a long cycle but he has been training in Wicklow and is confident of making it across France.
Niall McGloughlin of the Irish Youth Foundation is another to sign up for the cause. This is his second run at the event having raised over €40,000 with his team the last time around.
You can find out more about the 18 charities that will benefit from the ride here.
Fundraising Masterclass
Sport for Business is hosting a fundraising masterclass on how to get the best out of crowd funding on Wednesday September 24th. Limited places are available for the event which will introduce the different elements that go to make up a winning crowd funding campaign. The evening will be held at the Glasnevin HQ of Experience Gaelic Games. To find out more and reserve a place click here.
