How to help Focus Ireland raise vital funds for homelessness services

Families facing challenges we have never seen before, warns Barnardos director

Focus Ireland releases new booklet amid concern child homelessness is falling off agenda

Children make up more than quarter of homeless population with over 1,800 in Dublin

Roma community suffering from much higher burden of chronic disease than general population, says report

Crisis will intensify if additional supports not provided according to Focus Ireland

Four people on their journeys out of homelessness, and the lessons they have for others

Homeless charities report ‘alarm’ at high numbers of younger homeless adults

Top Drawer Developments building 16 social housing units for local authority

We have an opportunity to reform how we receive and meet the needs of refugees in State

Dublin City Council CEO’s remarks described as a ‘distraction from failed policies’

Second consecutive month in which number of families without place to call their own has risen

More than 8,000 in emergency accommodation while half Dublin’s rough sleepers live in tents

How Irish expats can run the distance from where they live now to their hometown in Ireland, while raising funds for homelessness

Drop of 18% in homelessness with 575 fewer families in emergency accommodation

Total of 8,238 people homeless in February, including 2,264 children, latest data shows

A football club and rock band join forces: ‘Homelessness can’t be something we accept’

Number of families without homes has fallen by 40 per cent over the past year

Children’s alliance says measure is imposed on children, often without parents’ consent

Staff receive extra training in effort to stem increasing tendency towards self-harm

Further moritorium on evictions and creation of youth strategy among report’s recommendations

Mary Coughlan, Damien Dempsey and Erica Cody playing to support homeless charity

Other Voices, Together in Electric Streams, Hibernacle and more aim to end the year on a high

Eleanor McEvoy and Brian Kennedy among artists who will perform at railway stations

Debra Ireland, Barnardos Gifts for Good, Focus Ireland and the SVP need your aid

Businesses are engaging with employees about where charity funding should go

Charities showing initiative with greater online focus and fundraising events at home

Gift campaigns take on additional importance because of impact of Covid-19

Minister for Housing acknowledges number of homeless people is ‘simply too high’

Facebook, Amazon and Squarespace at forefront for diversity in the workplace

The homelessness organisation supported more than 15,000 people last year

‘The children are really suffering. They are saying they don’t want to go to school’

Almost 8,660 people, including 2,583 children, without a home at end of September

Many families already experience high rates of poverty and have lost access to childcare provided by relatives

While homeless total overall fell by 26 last month, single adult homelessness is rising

The number sleeping rough in Dublin fell to just 25 in March, but is now over 100 a night. With many services closed by the pandemic, their plight is severe

Postmen switching to electric vehicles for deliveries in a sign of changing times

Figures for June show 8,699 people in the State accessed emergency accommodation

Charities get €135,000 each as part of group’s €110m Covid-19 community aid package

Warning that fundraising collapse may see up to half of all charities shut this year