The August 2024 Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation newsletter contains several stories of fundraising and community support.
- The Together with Bewley’s Coffee Morning is coming up on September 26. Readers can register online to host their own coffee morning and receive a free coffee pack. The newsletter also provides tips for hosting a successful coffee morning and encourages online donations.
- Westport Women on Wheels, or Westport WOW, will cycle from Mizen to Malin starting on September 4 to raise funds for the Mayo Roscommon Hospice and Mayo Rape Crisis Centre. The 17 women have been training for months and hope to raise €25,000.
- The John Tully Hospice Triathlon, organized by his family, raised €12,054.30 for the hospice. The event included two races and was well-supported by the Castlerea community.
- Sunflower Days raised a record €115,233.74. The newsletter thanks all the volunteers and supporters who made the event possible.
- The Ballinrobe Hospice Shop is thriving thanks to the generosity of the local community and the hard work of volunteers. The shop is always looking for donations and new volunteers.
- Geraldine May and Peadar Higgins have been volunteering at the Ballinrobe Hospice Shop since it opened 12 years ago. Both are passionate about the work of the hospice and enjoy the social aspect of volunteering.
- The newsletter also includes tributes to Annemarie Byrne-Cunningham and Ann Meehan, who both passed away recently. Byrne-Cunningham’s family raised over €13,000 for the hospice in her memory, and Meehan was instrumental in opening the first Mayo Roscommon Hospice charity shop.
- Other fundraising initiatives mentioned include a car draw on September 20, donation collections at the Queen Medb’s Throne in Rathcroghan Visitor Centre, the Ashford Estate Soccer Aid event on September 17, and a coffee morning and bring-and-buy sale hosted by Cushla Active Age in Athlone on November 2.
