Fundraise With Us
Every fundraiser makes a difference to the vulnerable children and families Barnardos supports across Ireland.
Get in touch today via email or fill out the form to below tell us about your great idea.
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Fundraising Ideas
Take on one of our ideas below or do your own thing.
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Fundraising for Barnardos
We’re here to help with creative fundraising ideas, promotional materials, and support from our friendly fundraising professionals. Tell us below how you’d like to help change the story for vulnerable children.
How your fundraising helps
Whether you organise a large or small fundraiser, every cent you raise helps to make a real and lasting difference to vulnerable children and their families in communities across Ireland.
FAQs
How your money is spent
Every day we see the impact of poverty, neglect, disadvantage and violence on vulnerable children and families. And every day we work with these children to help change their lives for the better. But we can’t do it without your help.
Expenditure
Of every €1 we spent in 2024, 83c was spent directly on our work with children and families, 12c was invested in generating funds and 5c on retail stores.
Barnardos relies on income raised through fundraising to support our services. In 2025, we need to raise just over €10m million to ensure we can continue to work with the children and families who need it most in over 56 Barnardos service locations all over the country.
Children only get once chance at childhood and what happens to them now sets them on their path for life.
Together we can restore childhood and empower children at risk to reach their potential now and to become happy, fulfilled adults.
Fundraising Standards
As a member of Charities Institute Ireland we subscribe to their Triple Lock, which means we are compliant with best practice in ethical fundraising
Barnardos is fully committed to achieving the standards contained within the Guidelines for Charitable Organizations on Fundraising for the Public.
The purpose of these guidelines is to:
- Improve fundraising practice;
- Promote high levels of accountability and transparency by organisations fundraising from the public;
- Provide clarity and assurances to donors and prospective donors about the organisations they support.
Barnardos believes we meet the standards these guidelines set out.
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Governance & Transparency
We report publicly and in detail, on every euro we receive, through private donations and from public bodies. These reports are contained in our Annual Report, which have always been on our website and are available to anyone who wants to look at them.
As well as being a charity, we are what is known as a “company limited by guarantee”, and that imposes certain obligations on us under Irish company law. Our registered charity number is CHY 6015 – Registered Charity Number 20010027 and Barnardos is also fully committed to achieving the standards developed under the Guidelines for Charitable Organisations on Fundraising for the Public.
This new statement was developed by the Charities Regulator and exists to provide charities in Ireland with a Fundraising Code of Practice.
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