Charities serving Cork

Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABI Ireland) is Irelands leading provider of community based neuro-rehabilitation services for people who have acquired a brain injury in Ireland.

ActionAid provides long-term support and focuses on the human rights of women and children in developing countries, so they can overcome the obstacles holding them back.

ALONE is a national organisation that supports older people to age at home. We work with all older people, including those who have difficulties with loneliness, ill health, poverty, poor housing or homelessness.

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland works across the country in the heart of local communities providing dementia specific services and supports and advocating for the rights and needs of all people living with dementia and their carers.

Anne Sullivan Foundation for people who are deafblind is unique as the only organisation dedicated to working with people who are deafblind across Ireland.

In the four decades since Arthritis Ireland was established, we have worked relentlessly to support people with arthritis and to improve their quality of life.

The Asthma Society of Ireland’s mission is to stop asthma deaths in Ireland. We are the voice of the 450,000 people with asthma in Ireland, and our work radically transforms their quality of life. We fight asthma with every breath. Our vision is that everyone with asthma in Ireland lives a full life, symptom-free.

Barnardos is a children's charity. We work with vulnerable children and their families in Ireland and campaign for the rights of all children.

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Bóthar is an Irish charity that enables families and communities worldwide to overcome hunger and poverty and to restore the environment in a sustainable way.

Brain Tumour Ireland was founded in 2012 by a small group of people caring for a family member who was sadly lost to a Brain Tumour, Ronnie Fehily.

Breakthrough Cancer Research is an Irish medical research charity focused on poor prognosis cancers. We bring together scientists and surgeons, doctors and nurses to develop new treatments for the most difficult to cure cancers. Together we work save lives.

Bumbleance is Ireland's only dedicated Children's Ambulance Service. We make a difference by empowering the thousands of families unable to access their child’s healthcare by providing nationwide medical journeys in a safe, caring and fun environment, completely free of charge.

At Cheshire Ireland we provide a vast range of services to people with physical, sensory and neurological conditions, who often have very complex and high support needs.

Every year, an average of 373 children, adolescents and young adults (aged 0 - 24) are diagnosed with cancer in Ireland. As a parent and survivor-led national charity, Childhood Cancer Ireland understands the devastating impact this has on the entire family and provides emotional and practical support to families from the moment of diagnosis onwards.

The ISPCC is for children. Our purpose is to listen to them, empower them, strengthen their resilience and enable them to live their best possible lives.

When a child you love is sick, your top priority is finding the best care available.

Christian Aid Ireland is an aid agency working to overcome poverty in some of the world’s poorest communities in around 50 countries.

Cliona’s Foundation provides nationwide financial assistance directly to parents of children with life-limiting or chronic complex care needs across Ireland to help with the non-medical expenses related to caring for their child.

Leaving a legacy to Concern is a wonderful gift. It helps the people in the poorest countries in the world and brightens the future for generations to come. Now that really is something truly exceptional.

Cope Foundation supports 2,800 children and adults with an intellectual disability and/or autism to live ‘Your Life Your Way’ through a growing network of 70+ locations across Cork city and county.

We offer support for people with cancer and their families. Our services include physical therapies, professional counselling and practical information; our aim is to reduce the distressing impact that cancer can have.

Cork Simon Community is Cork's largest homelessness charity. Our goal is to prevent and end homelessness in Cork by helping people to access affordable housing and, at the same time, supporting people to address the many challenges and difficulties that may have contributed to them becoming homeless. Cork Simon believes that everyone who calls Cork home should have a home.

The CSPCA aims to prevent cruelty to animals throughout the County of Cork and to educate everyone about animal care.

CRY Ireland was established in 2002 by parents and relatives who have experienced the effects of sudden and unexplained deaths within their families.

As a hospital, it is inevitable that some people will die while in our care. Just as every life matters, every death matters too – every death impacts a family, impacts the staff and impacts members of the wider community.

Cystic Fibrosis Ireland (CFI) was set up in 1963 to improve the treatment and facilities for people with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in Ireland.

Down Syndrome Ireland is the voice of people with Down syndrome and their families throughout Ireland.

Enable Ireland provides a range of free health and social services to over 13,000 children and adults with disabilities from 43 locations in 14 counties across Ireland.

Family Carers Ireland is the national charity supporting the 500,000+ family carers across the country who care for loved ones such as children or adults with physical or intellectual disabilities, frail older people, those with palliative care needs or those living with chronic illnesses, mental ill-health or addiction.

Focus Ireland works with people who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes across Ireland.

Friends of the Earth is working to create a brighter, safer and more equitable future for people and nature. Including Friends of the Earth in your Will would make such a positive impact for future generations, and for the future of our natural world.

Friends of the Elderly is a volunteer based Irish charity.

The Galway Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) have been an active force in animal welfare since 1999 taking care of sick, injured and cruelly treated animals in Galway.

The Hope Foundation is dedicated to promoting the protection of street and slum children in Kolkata, some of the most underprivileged in India. HOPE works to effect immediate and lasting change in their lives.

HUGG is the national suicide bereavement charity which supports adults impacted by suicide through our lived experience.

The Humanist Association of Ireland (HAI) is a community of people who believe in humanist principles and aspire to a fair, balanced, ethical, and responsible secular society.

Please accept our sincere condolences if you have recently lost a friend or loved one. We are extremely grateful to you for considering us at this sad and difficult time.

Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind is Ireland’s national charity dedicated to helping people who are vision impaired and families of children with autism to achieve improved mobility and independence.

We will lead the fight to save lives and make life better for those suffering from heart disease and stroke. Our mission is to affect positive change in the lifestyles of Irish people, to achieve better outcomes for those affected by heart disease and stroke and to challenge when the health of our nation is put at risk.

For better end of life care, everywhere. We work to ensure the continued development of hospice care in Ireland, for people of all ages, in all care settings including hospices, hospitals, nursing homes and their own family home.

Irish Injured Jockeys was set up in 2014 to increase awareness and raise vital funds to support our injured jockeys.

The Irish Kidney Association (IKA) is a patient driven organisation founded to meet the needs of people, and their families, living with kidney failure, either on dialysis or transplanted.

We are here for families affected by Motor Neurone Disease (MND); providing care and support every step of the way.

The Irish Sepsis Foundation is a dedicated Charity committed to raising awareness, providing support, and advancing knowledge about sepsis in Ireland.

Irish Therapy Dogs is a registered voluntary charity whose approved volunteers and their dogs visit the residents of an assigned Care Centre once per week for approximately one hour to bring them the therapeutic benefits of canine companionship.

You can leave the world a better place. Legacies are vital to the existence of the ISPCA, and without the help of the kind benefactors that have remembered the ISPCA in their will, we would be unable to sustain our welfare operations and our rescues centres; both of which help many abused and neglected animals.

Jack and Jill are a nationwide charity that funds and provides up to 100 hours per month of in-home nursing care and respite support to families caring for children, up to the age of six, with severe learning disability often associated with complex medical needs.

At Jigsaw, we understand and support young people’s mental health.

The Kerry Hospice Foundation (KHF) is a voluntary organisation to help provide funding and support for palliative care services in Kerry.

The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust aims to alleviate the financial hardship of bereaved families repatriating the body (bodies) of loved one(s) who have died abroad in sudden or tragic circumstances back to Ireland.

The Little Flower Penny Dinners is a food charity based in Dublin 8 that has been providing meals and place of comfort to people in need since its establishment in 1912.

MADRA rescues, rehabilitates and rehomes unwanted, neglected, abused and abandoned dogs.We are dedicated to looking after the dogs in our care and finding them permanent, loving homes. Ultimately we want to help create a world where MADRA, and rescues like us, are no longer needed and so we make it our mission to educate, influence, advocate and support.

Make-A-Wish Ireland has one simple aim – to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, to bring hope, strength and happiness.

The Marie Keating Foundation is a leading voice in cancer awareness and information for both men and women in Ireland. Following their mother Marie’s death from breast cancer in 1998, the Keating family promised to try to provide all women and their families with vital information which could help them to prevent cancer or detect it at its earliest stages. Their collective aim is “making cancer less frightening by enlightening.”

Marymount University Hospital & Hospice is a healthcare facility which provides two distinct services. The elderly care facility provides respite care, intermediate palliative care and continuing care for older people.

Médecins Sans Frontières Ireland (MSF) is part of a global network delivering emergency medical aid where it is needed most.

The Mercy University Hospital Foundation raises funds for the Mercy Hospital, Cork. Annually, The Mercy Hospital treats over 100,000 patients from all over Munster.

The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are working daily to bring hope to people in real and urgent need, here at home and on our mission projects in over 50 countries around the world.

Merchants Quay Ireland is a national voluntary organization that helps people who are homeless and those caught in addiction.

The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland (MS Ireland) is the only National Organisation providing information, support and advocacy services to the MS community.

After you have provided for loved ones, including a gift to charity in your will is a wonderful way to support a cause that means something personal to you. A legacy gift to charity is tax-free.

The National Breast Cancer Research Institute is a national charity that funds a comprehensive research programme at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

The Oesophageal Cancer Fund is the national charity for Oesophageal Cancer in Ireland; bringing the good fight to a bad cancer, we provide a three-pronged, desperately needed service:

Parkinson's Ireland is a nationwide charity, offering support, information and advice to people with PD, and their families and friends.

Pieta provides free therapy to those engaging in self-harm, with suicidal ideation, or bereaved by suicide.

Recovery Haven Kerry Cancer Support House offers free emotional and psychological support and practical advice to cancer patients, their families and carers across all of Kerry, north Cork and West Limerick.

For 75 years, the Rehab Group has been working to break down the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from living ordinary lives in their communities.

We provide accommodation and a caring, supportive environment for families whose children are undergoing medical treatment at CHI, Crumlin, Dublin. To us, keeping families close is what matters the most.

We are the RNLI: the charity that saves lives at sea and on inland waters in Ireland and the UK. Every day of every year, people of all backgrounds get into danger in the water. It’s a problem that we’re here to tackle.

Sightsavers works to prevent avoidable blindness so when you donate in memory of a loved one your gift will be helping to make a life-changing difference to someone at risk of sight loss.

We aim to enrich and enhance the lives of those in Ireland who are living with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus and the lives of their families and wider circle.

St James’s Hospital Foundation, is the fundraising charity for St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland’s largest hospital and research facility. Each year, St James’s Hospital treats over 300,000 patients from across primarily Dublin and Leinster and other patients from across Ireland, for specialised treatment.

A memorial gift will honour your friend or loved one’s memory, while helping us care for those with Dementia / Alzheimer’s disease.

St. Vincent’s Foundation is the fundraising arm of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group (St. Vincent’s University Hospital, St. Michael’s Hospital and St. Vincent’s Private Hospital).

We’re Christians passionate about seeing communities flourish, free from poverty and injustice. We believe this is what God wants for all His children and we’re working alongside the Church towards the restoration of relationships and holistic transformation of all people.

At the Mater Hospital Foundation we ensure the amazing generosity of our supporters makes a positive impact on every patient of the Mater Hospital, and on every family who loves them.

After more than 40 years, Threshold is still fighting for the most vulnerable – people and families who are losing the entire foundation of their lives – their home.

Trócaire supports individuals and communities in over 20 developing countries to live with independence and dignity. In Ireland, the charity raises awareness about the root causes of poverty and inequality.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. Today we have teams on the ground in over 190 countries and territories, working with local communities and partners, saving children’s lives, defending their rights and helping them fulfill their potential.

Women’s Aid is a national, feminist organisation working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse.