Last Thursday Tandem held a Bake sale in support of our 2024 charity partner, @cranncentre and we are thrilled to announce that we raised an amazing €500!
A huge thank you to our bakers for contributing their delicious treats and to everyone who donated and supported our fundraiser. Your generosity makes a real difference!
Team Tandem was delighted to spend the morning volunteering at the @cranncentre tackling some gardening tasks such as planting, weeding and clearing leaves.
It was a rewarding and fulfilling experience to help maintain the beautiful outdoor space for the families who benefit from the Crann Centre’s incredible services.
Tandem has participated in the Focus Ireland Shine a Light campaign for the fifth year running.
This annual event is hugely impactful in enabling Focus Ireland to undertake its valuable work. Focus Ireland works with people who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes across Ireland.
The event in 2023 resulted in:
📌255, 882 Meals provided.
📌17,526 people provided with advice and advocacy.
📌247 children given support from a child support worker.
📌297 people given access to educational services.
Tandem is delighted to support Focus Ireland and their goal to eradicate homelessness in Ireland. Team Tandem has raised €1,000 by sleeping out for Homelessness on October 11th. Many thanks to the participants and to all our sponsors.
Tandem was delighted to take part in The Crann Centre’s Walk & Roll annual charity event last Thursday, 6th June. A group from our head office in Cork embarked on a lunch time walk around the Blackrock area, stopping off at Mahon Point’s Farmers Market for something to eat before returning to the office.
Tandem raised €1,000 for The Crann Centre, this is a great achievement, many thanks to all the participants and to everyone who sponsored the event!
The Crann Centre is based in Ovens, Cork and provide lifelong solutions for children, adults and families whit neuro-physical disabilities. For more information about Crann and the great work they do, head to their website: https://cranncentre.ie/
Wonderful to see so many people out before daybreak to support Pieta House Darkness into Light.
Tandem personnel participated in Cork, Kerry, Dublin, Tipperary & Leitrim. Well done to everyone who took part on Saturday morning.
Pieta supports individuals and families who are affected by suicide and self-harm. Fundraising from Darkness Into Light enables them to contribute their vital work of raising awareness and to reach those in need by offering their services 24/7.
Tandem are delighted to have raised €1,336 for Pieta House! Thanks to all who donated to this valuable charity.
Tandem were delighted to support The Crann Centre – 2024 charity partners, in spreading awareness for their annual Walk and Roll fundraiser last Friday in Mahon Point.
Crann provide life-long solutions for people & their families living with neuro-physical disabilities. Since 2018, they have helped over 500 clients & families through their model of care that supports the person with neuro-physical disability and their families through-out all stages of life. For more information about Crann, please see: https://cranncentre.ie/
Crann’s Walk & Roll fundraiser will take place from the 6th June to the 9th June. Crann are asking people to partake in a 5km in your own way over the course of the 4 days. Walk, roll, run, push or pedal! For more information, or to make a donation please see: https://lnkd.in/eTs6s4T
As 2024 charity partners, Tandem looks forward to working closely with Crann in volunteering time and raising vital funds to enable them to provide support to as many people and families as possible.
Tandem was delighted to support Focus Ireland’s annual Big Busk event at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre on the 12th April.
Nationwide, buskers volunteered their time to entertain commuters and passers by as well as encouraging them to donate.
For more information on Focus Ireland please see: https://www.focusireland.ie/
Tandem hosted a cake sale in aid of Daffodil Day at their head office in Cork. With support from our team and neighbouring businesses we raised €500 for the Irish Cancer Society.
Daffodil Day is the Irish Cancer Society’s biggest fundraising event of the year. Supporting this event helps the Irish Cancer Society to provide services and support to cancer patients and their families across Ireland. For more information about how to get involved, please see: https://lnkd.in/ewxFD9Nf
Many thanks to those who baked, they did a fantastic job! Thanks too to everyone who contributed to our fundraising.
Rainbow Club Cork
Tandem was delighted to support the Rainbow Club in the setup of their annual Santa Experience. This is an incredible service that brings Santa to life for autistic children that would be overwhelmed to attend a mainstream Santa experience. Their Santa’s grotto is for every child, teen, young adult & their families. The Rainbow Club aim to make their Santa visit as stress free as possible for autistic children, and to help families enjoy the experience and create memories. The Rainbow Club teaches people about Autism, how to live every day with it, and the challenges it brings to the child and family. They also provide multiple supports that are unavailable to families through normal healthcare channels.
Cork Penny Dinners Food Collection
Tandem commenced a series of lunch & learn workshops on the UN Sustainability Development Goals, the first of which was on Goal Number 1: No Poverty. Following on from that discussion, Tandem organised a food collection for Cork Penny Dinners. It was carried out over a 2-week period when we asked the team in Tandem and neighbouring business to collect non-perishable food items, baby food, clean clothing, hats, scarves and gloves. Tandem is delighted to support Cork Penny Dinners who experience a huge demand for their services over Christmas.
Christmas Quiz in aid of Charity Partners L’Arche
Tandem held its annual Christmas Quiz on the 21st December with all funds raised donated to our charity partners L’Arche Cork. The Christmas Quiz is a fun opportunity for the team to get together before breaking up for Christmas and raise some funds for our charity partners. This year we held a number of fundraisers for L’Arche and volunteered some labour in their sensory garden during the summertime. The Christmas quiz has raised over €500 for the charity. Thanks to all the team that participated in the quiz and made donations.
Tandem was delighted to collaborate with L’Arche as charity partners in 2023, supporting their goals and projects throughout the year.
Tandem is proud to have partnered with Focus Ireland for the last 4 years. Each year, Tandem undertakes fundraising activities and joins in on Focus Ireland events such as The Big Busk and Shine a Light, to help them towards their goal of eradicating homelessness.
Tandem also undertake projects with Focus Ireland that will impact people within the Focus Ireland community.
To date, we’ve undertaken garden makeover projects for families newly out of homelessness and living in Focus Ireland properties. This year we undertook to impact a greater number of people by painting the common areas in two Focus Ireland apartment blocks in Glanmire, Cork. There are twelve apartments in the complex, with a mixture of families, couples and singles.
Over two days, two teams of Tandem personnel got to work early to get entrance halls, stairs and landings, emergency door areas and upstairs landing areas painted and looking fresh and clean. We installed new numbers on all the apartment doors, we added some prints to the entrance hall and upstairs landings and some welcoming plants to add a bit of colour.
Tandem personnel worked well together, identifying what needed to be done and getting stuck in! It was a great activity to work with team members we don’t work with on a day-to-day basis and bond as a team.
Focus Ireland are thrilled with the results, as are the residents who sent messages, pictures and videos to Focus Ireland to say how happy they were with the finished look.
