The coffee morning will take place in the South County Bar in Douglas Village on October 8, and all money raised will go to Down Syndrome Centre Cork, whose members provide invaluable support to Down Syndrome children as well as their families.<\/p>\n
The centre is located at Forge Hill, on the southside of Cork city and some of the resources they offer include occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, counselling and play therapy.<\/p>\n
They also provide support to siblings of Down Syndrome children.<\/p>\n
The registered charity relies solely on the generosity of the public through donations and fundraisers.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur lights are on, and our door is open because we have to fundraise, and we rely on donations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coffee morning means we can put more money back into the centre, which is amazing,\u201d Cathy said.<\/p>\n
The funds raised will go towards the salaries of their therapists who provide either one-on-one or group support through the centre.<\/p>\n
Chairperson of the Down Syndrome Cork Centre, Cathy Halpin, said the coffee morning is also very important for parents to network with other parents.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a parent of a child with Down Syndrome, I find I actually get through talking to other parents, and at the moment, I\u2019m in the middle of primary school with Finn, with SNA support.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no handbook that tells you how to do this, it is other parents who tell you this is what you should ask from the SNA education team in terms of what they do and don\u2019t do,\u201d Cathy said.<\/p>\n
For Down Syndrome Centre Cork, it is very important to staff to let donors know where the money goes.<\/p>\n
The funds will also go towards purchasing new equipment.<\/p>\n
Cork\u2019s Ireland and Swansea City striker Adam Idah is an ambassador for the centre, and his cousin Saoirse attends the facility.<\/p>\n
Cathy said the centre is \u201cabsolutely thrilled\u201d with having Adam involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got introduced to Adam during the summer as part of a parent introduction and he kindly agreed to come on board as an ambassador for the year, which we were absolutely thrilled with,\u201d Cathy said.<\/p>\n
A football signed by the Ireland international is one of the raffle prizes on the day.<\/p>\n
Adam\u2019s mother Fiona, along with Aidan and Diane Dalton organised the coffee morning.<\/p>\n
Aidan and Diane have organised a number of fundraisers for other charities in the past, but this is their first for the Down Syndrome Cork Centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe effort that parents and both local and not-so-local people put into these groups is unbelievable, because we could be naming off different charities who depend on the likes of these fundraisers,\u201d Aidan said.<\/p>\n
The coffee morning kicks off at 10am and will run until midday on October 8 at the South County Bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The coffee morning will take place in the South County Bar in Douglas Village on October 8, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,16345,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-17978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-martin-mongan","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}