Check out our sponsored Guide Dog in training April. Isn't she a beauty? Thanks to her puppy raiser Amanda for sending in these fab photos. She is clearly thriving and doing really well on her career path.
Hank and his puppy raiser, Bernadette, are doing really well. He is settling down a lot she said and really concentrating on his training.
Kathy sent on some gorgeous photos of Champ. As you can see he is doing really well and is currenty on his holidays in Wicklow :)
Izzy on a recent trip to Connemara. Training is going really well with Emma and Izzy is proving to be a very confident and outgoing little one.
It's always great to know we are supporting a worthy, local cause. Thanks to Brian and Courtwood GAA for this lovely letter...
Courtwood GAA club are very grateful for the continuing and generous support from Rosie and Jim and we are very proud of the successful business that has been set up by this local couple. They have kindly sponsored our annual Family Fun Day road race, the Canal 5K, since its inception in 2010. The money that events such as these bring in helps to fund the activities and we would not be able to function without this support. In addition to this Rosie and Jim has also sponsored club gear bags and club team ware since 2014.
Courtwood GAA is a Gaelic football club, located in the north east corner of County Laois in Ireland. The club is located in the eastern half of Emo parish with a small catchment area south of the village of Ballybrittas and mainly covered by the local school Rath NS. This catchment area is bordered on one side by County Kildare and by neighbouring clubs in Laois, Annanough, O'Dempseys and Emo. Although we have previously competed in the Junior C hurling championship, at adult level, the club is a football club only. We field football teams in the Intermediate and Junior C championships.
At juvenile level Courtwood plays in an amalgamation with fellow parishioners, Emo, called St. Paul’s. Courtwood also amalgamate with Emo and The Rock at minor and Under 21 level. Through our juvenile club we provide facilities to over 200 children and young people across all of our teams, and once again Rosie and Jim have been very generous in their support for our endeavours at underage level.
The current Courtwood club was reformed in 1962. However there has been a long tradition of Gaelic football in the Courtwood area since the foundation of the GAA in 1884, evidence exists of a club named Courtwood existing as early as 1888 and competing in the earliest known Laois Senior Football Championships. The 1892 Laois Senior Football Championship final was actually played in Courtwood.
Down through the years Courtwood has enjoyed success on the field of play. Courtwood has won the Laois Junior Football Championship three times (1970, 1986 and 2014) and the Laois Intermediate Football Championship twice (1971 and 1987) and won one league title Laois All-County Football League Division Three in 2015. In 2006 Courtwood won the Laois Junior "C" Football Championship.
At underage level, Courtwood have successfully combined with Emo on a number of occasions to win county titles. The two club won the Laois Minor Football Championship in 1964 and 1965 and the Laois under 21 Football Championship in 1966 and 1967. The two clubs also combined to win the Under 21 title again in 1989 and 1990 and the Under 21 B title again in 2012.
Courtwood, on its own, won the 2003 Laois Minor "B" Football Championship and Emo/Courtwood accomplished this in 2008. In 2011 and 2012, an Emo, Courtwood and The Rock minor combination won two Laois Minor "B" Football Championships and two Laois Minor Football League B titles.
Courtwood is the home club of Fergal Byron, the 2003 All-Star goalkeeper who was also instrumental in Laois's 2003 Leinster SFC triumph. He was joined in 2007 on the Laois senior panel by Niall Donoher, a minor and under 21 star with Laois.
In 2014, former Courtwood player Eddie Kinsella refereed the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final between Kerry and Donegal, with his four umpires Alan O'Halloran, Pat O'Connell, Arthur O'Connor and Niall Murphy also all club members.
Once again we would like to thank Rosie and Jim for all of their support over the last five years and we wish them every success and look forward to working with them into the future.
Brian Nolan
Secretary, Courtwood GAA
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We are really pleased to share that Rosie & Jim have donated €2000 to the much needed UNICEF Afghanistan charity.
1 in 2 Afghani Children Will Battle Malnutrition in 2022
Today, the situation unfolding in Afghanistan is getting worse by the hour.
Without help, 1 in 2 children under five in Afghanistan will be acutely malnourished in 2022.
Rising malnutrition, COVID -19, drought, disruptions to health care and crippling winter weather are putting 12.9 million children lives at risk.
The situation in Afghanistan is critical, and now winter will make it worse.
Winter in Afghanistan is severe, with temperatures regularly dropping below freezing. Without winter clothing, blankets and fuel, hungry children will struggle to survive.
Dear Rosie,
We have just received your amazing donation of € 2000.00 and vital supplies are now on their way to children!
Kindness like yours is ensuring that our mobile health teams can keep taking essential nutrition and health care services to the most vulnerable children in the hardest-to-reach areas. With around 300,000 children forced out of their homes because of the conflict, you are also supporting mobile health and nutrition teams in camps for internally displaced people and setting up nutrition hubs. Your recent donation will help to ensure that critical services like this can continue.
Thank you again for your wonderful kindness and timely help. With very best wishes from everyone on the team at UNICEF Afghanistan.
Alice Akunga
UNICEF Afghanistan Representative
Rosie & Jim kindly donated €300 to The Cuisle Centre, a cancer support centre for women in Portlaoise.
Well done to Margaret on the right who ran the ladies mini marathon in aid of the centre!
The Cuisle Centre Mission Statement
“To provide a warm, safe and welcoming environment for people diagnosed with cancer and their families affected by it.”
The Cuisle Centre has both a structured and an informal approach to each person’s care. People are encouraged to use the centre on an informal basis where they are able to meet professionally trained people in a relaxed, calm and homely atmosphere. Who comes to the Cuisle Centre? Anyone who has been diagnosed with any type of cancer. Family members and friends that are in any way affected by their loved one’s diagnosis.
Find out more about this fantastic support service - www.cuislecentre.com
Our distributors' Parkview Provisions came to us recently to seek a donation for a very worthy cause. Newry Helping The Homeless is an organisation helping the plight of the homeless, not just in the city of Newry, but on the island of Ireland as a whole.
We were more than delighted to donate to the fund Parkview Provisions had set up in aid of this charity. We'd like to thank them for the opportuntity to make our contribution.
Parkview Provisions sent us a lovely letter of thanks
We @ Parkview Provisions would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your very generous donation towards our helping the homeless cause.
We are extremely grateful and thankful that you chose to be a part of our charitable event and have attached a photo below of our presentation to those involved with the Newry helping the homeless campaign.
Newry helping the homeless were overwhelmed with the volume of products donated stating that it would go a long way to help aid the needs of all those effected so we thank you again.
Stay in touch with Parkview Provisions on their Facebook page >
About Newry Helping The Homeless
This group has been formed to highlight the plight of the homeless, not just in Newry but on the island of Ireland as a whole. Reading about the death of ordinary people living on the streets of Belfast has hit home to many of us. " How can this be allowed to happen in this day and age?". Well we want to try and do a little to help with this problem not just in Newry but in other areas too...
Rosie & Jim are delighted to sponsor Arlington Soccer Club U15 & U16 brand new kits - that's 2 kits at €1200!
Thanks for the lovely Facebook post from the Club - thanking us. And how great does the kit look on the U16 team who won 2-0 in their first match wearing them?!
The club would to thank Rosie & Jim for their very generous sponsorship of a new kit for the U16 premier squad. The squad were home today and reported a 2-nil win over Sallins Celtic, it was a fantastic maiden voyage for the new kit. Rosie & Jim are a fantastic family run business who are continually supporting the community locally and nationally. So we have two things to thank them for; great tasting chicken & a fantastic social conscience.
Thanks for the kind words. We're thrilled you like the kits and our 'great tasting chicken'!
Rosie & Jim are delighted to have donated €500 to Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services for their Christmas Fundraising Campaign helping them to provide care and support to over 4,000 patients at hospices at Harold’s Cross and Blackrock.
As they have seen a 14% decrease in state funding to Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services since 2010, they really need help to support frontline services in both hospices and in patients’ homes, along with projects such as opening a new Hospice and refurbishing Blackrock Hospice.
Find out more and DONATE to Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services on their website - www.olh.ie
Check our the O'Neills Parnell half zips sent out recently to Courtwood GAA!
The Courtwood GAA half-zips are proudly sponsored by Rosie & Jim.
Thanks to Colgan Sports.
Rosie & Jim are humbled to share the total Rosie & Jim donations to Irish Charities and Community Groups throughout 2021 came to a staggering €56,959!
In addition Rosie & Jim donated more than 2520kgs of chicken products to Irish charities and those who provide support to the less well off in our communities.
Read through our Charity Donations blog - Read through our Charity Donations blog for more on the organisations and individuals who received support from Rosie & Jim.
Rosie & Jim have made a donation of €2,000 to The Capuchin Day Centre for homeless people.
Find out more and make a donation to this very worthy charity on their website...
Heartfelt Thanks For Another Year Of Your Kind Support
The people who attend the Centre -
Every person needs to belong and have a place where they are respected and have their basic needs met in a caring and non-judgemental way. For most people this is where they call home and in an ideal world, families can share the normal ups and downs of life in privacy behind their own hall door. Sadly some people must spend their days trying to find shelter from the weather, a place to rest and prepare before going out to face the day. Their most basic needs are access to toilet facilities, somewhere to wash and change their clothes, decent hot meals, someone to interact with. Many people lack what most of us take for granted and have no security as to where they will lay their heads that night. While this is tragic for adults, it is heart breaking for families with children who are forced to move from place to place with no stability as to their living conditions.
We were delighted to provide the winning prize of a £250 Titanic Hotel Belfast Voucher for the Hendersons Foodservice Gala Night this year.
The evening Gala Ball & Awards Ceremony was fundraising for NI Children's Hospice.
A guest speaker from NI Children's Hospice was humbling & reinforced the importance of fundraising support provides for families.
