Charity Partners

Barnardos is fortunate to have a number of dedicated charity partners. These include:

	Danone “Danone has supported Barnardos for the past eight years by sponsoring the Danone Big Toddle for Barnardos – a fun active event that has become Barnardos’ biggest fundraiser and a huge success. All of the money raised is going directly to help fund Best Start programmes which allows children to develop their own individuality and interests by introducing playtime, storytelling, drawing and music into their lives. By giving children the opportunity to be a child, we are helping them better prepare for their future. The event is an excellent way for children to help other children get more out of life.” For more information about the event click here. Jill McCarron, Health Affairs Director, Danone Ireland
	Meteor Since 2007, Meteor has continued to be a fantastic supporter of Barnardos. This successful partnership has grown over the years to now include; sponsorship of our flagship fundraising event - the Spirit of Christmas, organising Christmas parties for Barnardos service-users in projects in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, a Christmas text appeal to Meteor customers, direct financial support towards Barnardos Best Chance programmes, and engaging Meteor and Eircom Group employees through a programme of staff fundraising and volunteering. We are delighted to continue this partnership into 2011 and value their continued support of our work with vulnerable children and families.
	Tour America As sponsors of Barnardos annual Teddy Bear Raffle for the last two years; Tour America has shown great support for this campaign by providing wonderful trips for the grand prize winners, to such glamorous locations as New York and Las Vegas. In addition, Tour America staff have gotten behind the partnership by organising a variety of fundraising and volunteering activities, from running the New York Marathon, to holding an ‘On Yer Bike’ event in their offices, raising significant funds in support of Barnardos Best Chance programmes. We are delighted to announce that this partnership is continuing into 2012 and we will be working with Tour America on a variety of new fundraising projects this year. For further details visit: www.touramerica.ie
	Ecclesiastical Insurance Ecclesiastical Insurance have been working in partnership with Barnardos since 2008 to raise vital funds in support of our children’s services. This support has included direct funding and the sponsorship of the 2011 Barnardos Golf Event and the 2009 Christmas Giving Tree appeal, both of which generated substantial funds. Ecclesiastical have also actively encouraged their staff to organise their own FUNdraising events, such as taking part in marathons and organising a sponsored skydive.
	Sweets for Life To-date Sweets for Life have donated more than €150,000 to Barnardos in support of our children's services, through the donation of proceeds from the sale of their bagged sweets in businesses across Ireland. Since 2006 Sweets for Life have given over 67% of the profit it makes to Barnardos and provides their customers with a varied range of high quality confectionery products sourced from the industry leaders. As the company goes from strength to strength, Sweets for Life have set themselves the goal of reaching a total of €250,000 in donations to Barnardos by the end of 2011.
	Vodafone Ireland Foundation The Vodafone Ireland Foundation support Barnardos Tús Maith education programme in eight of our centres nationwide. The Tús Maith programme is an early year’s care and education programme for children aged 3-5 years. The outcomes of the Tús Maith programme are that the children will be ready for primary school and will develop the specific cognitive skills necessary for this transition. The Tús Maith programme focuses on working with children in an intensive manner around the difficulties they are experiencing, and each piece of work is specific to the child receiving it. Ruth Guy, Director of Marketing and Fundraising, Barnardos said “We are delighted to receive this support from the Vodafone Ireland Foundation, for what is an extremely important programme for Barnardos, giving children a better start in life all across Ireland”.
	Sodexo Ireland Barnardos is delighted to have been chosen as one of two charities that Sodexo will support through their 'Stop Hunger' campaign. Sodexo staff are taking part in a number of fundraising and volunteering activities throughout the year. They are committed to supporting Barnardos Family Support Programmes nationwide where food and nutrition are an integral part of the services we provide for children and their families.
	Jacob Fruitfield Jacob Fruitfield have partnered with Barnardos since 2010 on their new Jacobs4Kids range. This range was launched at an exciting event in Dublin Zoo last June and we were delighted to be involved at the event. The corporate contribution from Jacob Fruitfield will go directly towards the work we do with vulnerable children and families in our Family Support Projects nationwide. For more information please visit www.jacobs4kids.com.
	Reckitt Benckiser As part of their global Social Responsibility programme Reckitt Benckiser have chosen to support Barnardos as their local charity in Ireland. This great partnership will involve a number of fundraising initiatives involving RB’s key brands in Ireland, as well as a programme of activities involving their Irish staff. In particular, the Dettol Mission for Health will be working to support Barnardos in Ireland, with a number of in stores campaigns. Dettol are also title sponsors of the Buggy Push for Barnardos event in the Phoenix Park, September 2012.
	Select Hotels Select Hotels of Ireland has selected Barnardos as its charity partner. To mark the event, it launched the Barnardos Bear - which is being sold across the nationwide network of 22 hotels to raise much needed funds for the children's charity. "Barnardos was selected following much discussion and consultation with our 1,000 full time staff. As a group, we wished to support a national children's charity and Barnardos' work across Ireland with vulnerable children and their families very much reflects the family ethos of the Select Hotels network." Patricia Coughlan, Managing Director, Select Hotels of Ireland
	Ely Ely Restaurants are supporting Barnardos by donating €1 from every sale of its most popular dish, Bangers ‘n Mash, at their three locations. Funds raised from this campaign will go towards supporting Barnardos Best Chance programmes which supports vulnerable children in mid-childhood to improve learning and development.
	Lifestyle Sports We are delighted to announce that Lifestyle Sports has chosen Barnardos as its Charity Partner for 2012/13 and we will be working with them over the next two years to develop a variety of campaigns to help raise vital funds in support of our services for children. As part of this campaign during the Euro 2012 Championships, Life Style Sports have pledged that for every official Irish jersey sold in the stores nationwide they will donate €1 to Barnardos and we are hoping to raise €20,000 through this very generous support.