A Toyota Yaris Luna Hybrid car must be won every month!

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13th April 2023

The Care Trust Fundraising Team delivers a cheque for 2022 to CRC

Established in 1951, the CRC is a national voluntary charity that delivers medical, clinical, social and educational services to children and adults with complex disabilities across Ireland. The charity has 391 staff, supported by approximately 100 volunteers and provides a variety of care services for 8,316 clients.

We, at The Care Trust, are very proud of our longstanding relationship with the CRC. We have been raising funds to support this excellent charity for over fifty years through our door-to-door fundraising. The ongoing fundraising support of The Care Trust enables CRC to go the extra mile and ensure that the people it serves get the services they need. 

You can help The Care Trust to support the CRC, Rehab Group and special charitable projects such as A Lust for Life and HUGG by entering our monthly car draw at:

https://www.thecaretrust.ie/donate/

A Toyota Yaris Luna Hybrid car must be won every month!

13th April 2023

Barry McGinn, Chief Executive of the Rehab Group receives a cheque, in respect of 2022, from Senan Mullins, Chief Executive, The Care Trust

For more than 70 years, the Rehab Group (Rehab) has worked to break down the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from living ordinary lives in their communities. Many thousands of people have seen their lives transformed, achieving levels of independence, educational attainment, and career progression that might otherwise have seemed out of reach. The main purpose of Rehab is to empower its service users to lead more independent lives and play an active and meaningful role in their communities, through the provision of high quality, flexible and sustainable care services, learning, training and education, employment-skills and opportunities. Rehab opened new services during 2022, providing support to more people than ever. The support of The Care Trust plays an important part in helping Rehab to deliver its services.

You can help The Care Trust to support Rehab Group, CRC and special charitable projects such as A Lust for Life and HUGG by entering our monthly car draw at:

https://www.thecaretrust.ie/donate/

A Toyota Yaris Luna Hybrid car must be won every month!

Senan Mullins presents a cheque to Bernie Keogh, Managing Director, ALFL

13th April 2023

A Lust for Life is a multi-award-winning movement that uses content, campaigns and events to facilitate young people to be effective guardians of their own minds – and to be the leaders who drive our society towards a better future.

1st & 2nd Class Schools Programme supported by grants received from The Care Trust

The Care Trust initial grant of €65,000 helped ALFL to develop, during 2022, its primary school wellbeing and resilience mental health Schools Programme for children in 1st and 2nd classes. A Lust for Life Schools Programme has now been extended to 893 primary schools in 2,222 classrooms, reaching 51,110 pupils in 1st to 6th classes around the country. The programme undergoes ongoing evaluation both in-house and in partnership with the School of Psychology in University College Dublin.

Junior and Senior Infant Class Programme supported by grants received from The  Care Trust

With a further grant of €80,000 from The Care Trust in 2022, ALFL is continuing to engage with education, psychological and film-maker professionals to design the body of work for a new junior and senior infant class programme. As this age group is so young, the programme style will vary from the older age-group programmes. The initial developmental work will be key to assessing the needs and learning styles for this level. The programme development began in February 2023 and the completion of the development phase is scheduled for the end of the year, with pilot testing due to start in January 2024.

Fiona Tuomey and Marie McKeon, HUGG

Healing Untold Grief Groups is a peer support organisation. HUGG provides a safe, non-judgemental and confidential environment in which those bereaved by suicide can share their experiences and feelings, while giving and gaining support to and from each other. The aftermath of a suicide is shocking, debilitating, surreal, and forever life-changing. It is not easy to learn to live with this loss, but HUGG is available to help. The Care Trust believes that minding each other is an important value and is pleased to support HUGG and its vital work.

Future plans

The Care Trust has made a grant of €45,000 to enable HUGG to progress its Peer Group Support programme in 2023.  Objectives include increasing the number of people attending peer-group meetings throughout the country. This financial support will also help to increase the number of people accessing information on suicide bereavement and will allow for an uplift in telephone support to suicide-bereaved individuals. An additional grant of €2,083 was provided to support HUGG’s National Suicide Bereavement Remembrance Evening in November 2023.

You can help The Care Trust to support the CRC, Rehab Group and special charitable projects such as A Lust for Life and HUGG by entering our monthly car draw at:

https://www.thecaretrust.ie/donate/

A Toyota Yaris Luna Hybrid car must be won every month!

13th April 2023

The Care Trust – Door-to-Door Fundraising continues

Our door-to-door fundraising programme continues throughout 2023. Our fundraisers knock on hundreds of doors throughout Ireland everyday to ask for your support for our very worthwhile charities. If our fundraiser calls to your door he/she will show identification. Please spare them a few minutes to hear about the charities we support. If you are in a position to help, please do so, insofar as you can.

Our Contributors enrol to support our good causes but every month one of you will win a fabulous car. Others will win cash prizes. It is our way of showing our appreciation for the contribution that you make.

Our monthly prize draw will be held at the end of each month in 2023 and a fabulous

Toyota Yaris Luna Hybrid car as well as cash prizes must be won in every draw.

You can enter our monthly draws to support the important work of our Beneficiaries and have the chance to win a car and cash prizes by clicking on the blue CONTRIBUTE button on this site. Thanks to all our Contributors for your continuing support and encouragement. Please support our fundraisers who may call to your door.

https://www.thecaretrust.ie/donate/

All over Ireland, people continue to help our good causes. We need your support now more than ever. On behalf of the CRC, Rehab and special charitable projects, A Lust For Life, HUGG (Healing Untold Grief Groups) and the Irish Red Cross effort to support Ukraine Refugees , we thank you for your generosity.

News about our Beneficiaries

13th April 2023

Beneficiary News
As always we continue to fundraise for the very important work of CRC and Rehab who provide amazing and essential support and services for children and adults living with disabilities and serious long-term illnesses.

Mental Health is an area that came to the forefront of our attention during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. Following a review of our good causes in 2021 we now support some special charitable projects being developed by great Irish charities who are doing really important work in the mental health area.

A Lust for Life is an award winning Irish mental health charity that uses content, campaigns and events to facilitate young people to be effective guardians of their own minds – and to be leaders that drive our society towards a better future. The charity is a movement that aims to change how we talk about and treat mental health in Ireland.
The Care Trust is provided the funds needed to develop A Lust for Life’s Schools Programme for 140,000 pupils in 1st and 2nd classes in 2022 and are supporting the extension of the programme to Junior and Senior Infants classes in 2023.

HUGG is a national suicide bereavement charity run by volunteers. HUGG provides a unique service – suicide bereavement support groups which are led by people who themselves have been bereaved by suicide. These groups provide a vital space for those who have lost a loved one to suicide to find support, shared understanding, hope and healing.
The Care Trust is providing funds to allow HUGG to develop Peer Support Groups, across Ireland, helping to create a vital space for those who have lost a loved one to suicide to find support, shared understanding, and hope and healing.

The Care Trust has won the prestigious Good Governance Award for best Annual Report in 2019 and was shortlisted in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

The Good Governance Awards are national awards that recognise and encourage adherence to good governance by non-profit organisations in Ireland. The awards were developed by Carmichael with the support of partners and leading national bodies in the non-profit sector.  In 2018, The Care Trust won the award for best Governance Initiative.

The Care Trust was proud to have been a finalist in the Published Accounts Awards 2022. This selection by the Chartered Accountants Ireland Leinster Society, recognises the quality of reporting in our latest published Annual Report. This is the 3rd time in the past 4 years that we have been shortlisted for these prestigious awards.

Celebrating excellence in Annual Report presentation, the Published Accounts Awards have been encouraging companies to attain the highest standards in financial reporting for more than 40 years.

https://www.thecaretrust.ie/donate/

All over Ireland, people continue to help our good causes. We need your support now more than ever. On behalf of the CRC, Rehab and special charitable projects, we thank you for your generosity.

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Beneficiaries

Our beneficiaries, the Central Remedial Clinic, Rehab and special charitable projects benefit from funds provided by The Care Trust.

Our beneficiaries receive state funding and fund-raise directly themselves, however funds raised by The Care Trust funds are a very important source of extra funding which can be allocated to different projects as required.

The Central Remedial Clinic (CRC)

The Central Remedial Clinic – is a national organisation for the care, treatment and development of children and adults with physical and multiple disabilities. Most clients attending the CRC have a congenital physical disability such as Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Spina Bifida or Erbs Palsy.


The Rehab Group

Investing in people, changing perspectives

The Rehab Group provides health and social care, training, education, rehabilitation and employment services for young people and adults with physical, sensory and intellectual disabilities. It also offers assistance to people with mental health difficulties, autism and acquired brain injury. A range of essential services are also provided for older people, carers and others who are marginalised.

About

The Care Trust – Supporting CRC, Rehab and special charitable projects.

The Care Trust is owned on a 50/50 basis by The Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) and Rehab and our evolution dates back over 50 years to when our parent bodies were founded. We are a not-for-profit organisation with registered charitable status. For over 50 years The Care Trust has been raising essential funds to support the work of our beneficiaries – the Central Remedial Clinic, Rehab and special charitable projects. Our work ensures that many thousands of children and adults with physical, medical or intellectual disabilities, those who are socially disadvantaged and those requiring medical care, have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and enjoy the same quality of life as everyone else Our beneficiaries receive state funding and also fundraise directly themselves. However the money provided by The Care Trust is hugely important as it is a vital source of extra funding which is allocated to a broad range of projects and services supporting children and adults. It is your contributions and support that allows our beneficiaries to continue their work and have a lasting impact on thousands of people and their families across Ireland availing of services in Health care, Social care, Rehabilitation & employment and to children and adults with disabilities.

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