Focus Ireland's Shine a Light Night - Give one night to change a lifetime.

26th August 2014

Focus Ireland’s Shine a Light Night is an executive night with a difference! You could call it a networking event for Ireland’s business leaders but instead of dinner and speeches, its sleeping bags and conviviality in Cork’s historic City Gaol or Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens. It’s a night to raise funds and awareness of homelessness. Since 2012 over 120 business leaders have slept out and raised over €675,000 to support our work.

Past participants include amongst others Aviva, Voxpro, Brown Thomas, EazyCity, Cork Chamber of Commerce, Hopkins Communications, Cork Innovates, Electric, Irish Hotels Federation, H+A Marketing+PR, Deloitte, Paypal, Bord Gais, Glanbia, Google, The Irish Times, Castle Leslie, KBC, BOI, The Doyle Collection and Toyota. To see what past participants have said about the night please visit: http://youtu.be/Tguctofec-s

The 2014 sleep-outs will take place simultaneously in Cork’s historic City Gaol and Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens on Friday 17th October and Shine a Light night is once again kindly supported by Aviva Ireland. To take part in Focus Ireland Shine a Light Night 2014 we ask that individual business leaders raise or donate €5,000. We also offer Executive team packages whereby senior team members from the one organisation can participate together and fundraise collectively on a sliding scale.

All funds go to Focus Ireland to help people who are at risk of homelessness or experiencing homelessness. We have over 70 initiatives and projects across Ireland that offer advice, support, education and housing to help people to have and keep a home. Our work benefited over 10,000 people in 2013 – a 25% increase on the previous year. The funds raised over the last 2 years from Shine a Light Night have further supported our work to end homelessness across Ireland and aimed to prevent people from losing their homes. Our promise to you is that we will use your money well – 89 cent of every euro received goes directly on vital services.

Will you be part of it? Please join us and register today at www.focusireland.ie/shinealight or call Thos O’Leary on 021- 4251731 or 086 - 7858091

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