You buy, We give.
We at Applegreen have created our very own ‘Applegreen Charitable Fund’. This fund has been active since 1st December 2009. Every time you make an in store purchase 1 cent of the purchase total will be donated to our charitable fund, there is no need to request the donation to be added to the receipt, it will be done automatically, with no additional cost to you. The money raised will be split between ‘Goal’ and ‘The LauraLynn House’, both registered Irish Charities.
The Applegreen Charitable Fund allows all our customers to support these two worthwhile organizations without any action or request other than to buy a product in an Applegreen shop. There is no need to request the donation to be added to the receipt, it will be done automatically. Now that’s better.
GOAL Ireland
The generous decision by Applegreen to donate one cent from every purchase made in their service stations to GOAL’s invaluable work overseas will make a real difference to the lives of thousands in the Developing World.
On behalf of everyone in GOAL - and the vulnerable men, women and children who we help on a daily basis - I’d like to thank the management, the staff and you, the customer, for your support.
John O’Shea
Founder and CEO
About the project
GOAL is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to the alleviation of suffering amongst the poorest of the poor. It was founded in Dublin by former sports journalist and current Chief Executive John O’Shea in 1977. GOAL works towards ensuring that the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world, or those affected by humanitarian crises, have access to the fundamental needs and rights of life including, but not limited to, food, water, shelter, medical attention and education. It is non-denominational, non-governmental and non-political.
GOAL has worked in Uganda since the 1970s. Goal’s work aims to contribute to the long-term recovery and development of this marginalized area of Uganda. Their current Housing Support Programme in southern Uganda provides good quality housing for extremely poor households, often affected by HIV/AIDS, and training in construction skills for adolescent youths (male and female). The programme is currently constructing around 40 houses every six weeks. The programme has trained hundreds of young men and women in construction skills.
Laura Lynn House
Access to appropriate end of life care should be available to every family. Nothing can ease the pain of losing a child, but the right care can at least give quality to the child’s life, however short. ‘Putting life into a child’s day, not days into a child’s life’.
We are thrilled that Applegreen have chosen to support the Children’s Sunshine Home in our quest to build Ireland’s first hospice for Children – LauraLynn House. This wonderful initiative will mean so much to the children.
Jane McKenna
Founder and mother of Laura and Lynn
About the project
The Children's Sunshine Home is based in Leopardstown in Dublin and they have been caring for children with life limiting conditions and their families providing respite, transitional, home support, crisis and end-of-life care since 1925. The Children’s Sunshine Home Hospice Project and the LauraLynn Foundation came together in 2006 to maximise their fundraising efforts and realise their shared vision of building Ireland's first Children's Hospice called LauraLynn House. This project will be able to support over 300 families across Ireland per annum.
The LauraLynn House Paediatric Palliative Care unit will provide eight bedrooms along with living facilities as well as four family apartments, to enable relatives to be close to their children. These units will be an essential component of the Palliative Care Programme that is so desperately needed. A further three units, each with eight bedrooms and living accommodation, will be built at Leopardstown to provide more Respite Care and Residential Care.
There are over 1,400 children with life-limiting conditions and over 300 child deaths a year in Ireland. It is staggering to consider that there is currently no hospice for children in Ireland despite there being 42 in the UK.
Learn more about Ireland's first children’s hospice, LauraLynn House
How it works
For every in-store transaction in an Applegreen shop in Ireland, the Company will donate 1 cent to our Applegreen Charitable Fund. This has been set up to raise much needed funds for Irish Registered Charities, and for 2010 the two chosen charities that will benefit are Goal and The LauraLynn House, in association with the Children’s Sunshine Home.
You can keep track of money raised on this website as this will be visible on the tracker shown on both this and the home page.
Charitable funds raised will be given to the chosen charities via a cheque every 3 months across 2010. Please watch this web page for updates on money given and updates on how the charities spend the money donated from the Fund.
The funds raised will be taken directly from in store till transaction numbers. The fund will be monitored internally continuously and audited independently once a year by the accountancy firm Phelan Prescott.