Charity Support

Dear Jim

On behalf of St Conleths LGFC I would like to thank you for your generous sponsorship towards our club. It is sponsorships like this that keeps our club running from year to year. Please accept this letter as an appreciation and we also enclose a receipt in respect of same.

Many thanks,

Catherine, St. Conleths L.G.F.C.

Many thanks for your letter Catherine. Rosie & Jim are only delighted to support St. Conleth’s Ladies team!  All at Rosie & Jim would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the very best of luck in the up coming Feile Competitions on June 29^th.

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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

Find out more > https://www.unicef.ie/

Here's Hank enjoying some Christmas shopping and looking forward to a visit from Santa!

Thanks to his raiser Bernadette for these lovely photos of Hank. He's a real beauty :)

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'! 

Run down schools, crowded class rooms, lack of resources and virtually no sport are all part and parcel of a young persons life in Tanzania, Africa.

Irish volunteers Aisling Quigley and Anna Moore have set about changing the experiences young people are faced with in everyday life. Their work is delivered via Camps International and the core project is based around improving educational infrastructure at the local primary schools and improving village life as a whole.

The main focus currently is on building a classroom for students with special educational needs. Presently they are learning alongside mainstream classes and they are unable to succeed, as their educational needs are so different.

Desks and furniture making are also a high priority here with more than four students trying to squeeze onto one desk so making plenty for all students to sit comfortably will bring great advantages to their learning.

In Tanzania, structured sports education and inter-schools competition is virtually non-existent due to a lack of resources and time. The main issues are sport and P.E. are not part of the National Curriculum, lack of sports teachers, run-down or non-existent school and community sports pitches and facilities, lack of school sports equipment and student kit and gender inequality. Aisling and Anna will be working on sports development and hope to try and develop an area to facilitate their needs.

As a result of the donation Rosie and Jim, Ballybrittas’ made Aisling and Anna can now carry out volunteer work in Tanzania, which will make a real difference to communities.

Rosie & Jim are delighted to support St. Conleth’s Ladies team again this year and are very pleased to donate €1,500 to the club.

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Rosie & Jim are super excited to sponsor jerseys, bags, equipment and travel costs worth €12,509 for the Laois Lions Wheelchair Rugby Club to participate in the Bernd Best Turnier 2023 tournament in Germany this weekend!

Wishing the team the very best of luck for the tournament and for the whole trip to Germany!

https://www.facebook.com/berndbestturnier/

https://www.instagram.com/laoislionswrc/

Rosie & Jim recently sponsored a Gold Classic in aid of There's Something About Mary O. The fundraiser was to help Mary and her family access the best possible cancer treatment not available in Northern Ireland.

Mary is a vibrant member of the Cullyhanna community in Armagh. Both herself and her husband Gerard are great characters and well loved within their local communities. They have regularly fundraised for charitable organisations and therefore their family and friends have set up this non-profit organisation.

In May 2015 Mary was diagnosed on her 42nd birthday with Breast Cancer. Mary remained extremely positive throughout her chemotherapy and surgery, many call her an inspiration! Mary was just returning to normality when again on her next birthday she received the dreaded news that her cancer had spread to her liver. Mary is currently receiving eighteen weeks of full body chemotherapy and long term monoclonal antibody treatment. Unfortunately side effects such as extreme tiredness, mouth ulcers, nausea and hair loss are now taking its toll on Mary and her family.

Mary and Gerard are parents to six children ranging from four up to thirteen years. However they are no strangers to heartache after losing their baby to a congenital heart defect in 2006. Baby Eoin joined the other angels in heaven just after two days old. Throughout all this heartache the couple are hugely positive and are truly inspirational people. They are best friends and have recently celebrated their 21st Wedding Anniversary.

This Young, Vibrant Lady deserves the best of care and treatment to return her to better, if not long term improved health. The fundraising will help to cover costs of alternative remedies and further treatment unavailable locally and not routinely covered by NHS.

Rosie & Jim are delighted to have the opportunity to sponsor such a great cause.

Find out more on their Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/theressomethingaboutmaryo

Rosie & Jim are thrilled and humbled to sponsor Make A Wish Ireland in making Eimear's wish of having a Safety Sleeper come true.

Eimear's mum Fiona, sent in a lovely letter explaining how much this would improve Eimear's life.

We are so grateful as a family to get the safety sleeper gifted to Eimear as it especially changes holidays for us as family. Since getting the safety sleeper we can now like any other family decide to go on holidays, and we have gone during the summer and just last weekend, and Eimear has slept and enjoyed the holidays as much. As life can be very busy for us and challenging at times it is great for us and especially Eimear and her siblings to get away for a break. Now that we have the safety sleeper it gives us a new peace of mind and the option of a holiday.

Angelman Syndrome means that Eimear has severe complex needs, including sleep disturbances, sensory processing disorder, epilepsy, non verbal, short attention, no sense of danger/lack of sense of security. So for safety reasons she requires an enclosed bed.

Thanks for the lovely letter Fiona, Dermot, Alannah, Eimear and Jason.

We wish you many happy night's sleep in the new Safety Sleeper Eimear and hope you get to try it out on holiday soon :)

Rosie & Jim have made a donation of €1,653.20 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.

The Capuchin Day Centre - website >

Delighted to donate our delicious Chicken Goujons to the very worthy cause - Diabetes Ireland.

Diabetes Ireland is the national charity dedicated to helping people with diabetes. They achieve this by providing support, education and motivation to everyone affected by diabetes. Diabetes Ireland also raises public awareness of diabetes and its symptoms and funds research into finding a cure for diabetes.

Well done to all involved - a great night was had!

Find out more about Diabetes Ireland on their website - https://www.diabetes.ie/about-us/our-work/

And keep up to date on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DiabetesIreland/

Rosie & Jim sponsor Emo Celtic Schoolboys and Schoolgirls Soccer Club €600!

Rosie & Jim were delighted to again sponsor Emo Celtic Soccer Club, Co. Laois. Emo Celtic cater for all age groups from Academy age to Under 15's.

Check out the Clubs Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/EmoCeltic