Galway Cycle AGM - Wednesday 9th - 7pm - JH1. Choose a Charity, Choose a Committee
Galway Cycle President
Hello there!
Here we go, let's get ready for GC14! Last year was another massive success and here's hoping this year will be another safe and successful year.
Our first big event of the year is the AGM where we will elect our committee for next year and of course choose the beneficiary charity for Galway Cycle 2014.
The AGM will take place Wednesday 9th October, at 7.00pm in JH1 in the John Hume Building. Look for Building 40 on the attached map.
The agenda for the night is as follows:
- Talk from Jack and Jill Children's Foundation
- Talks from the 5 shortlisted charities (listed below)
- Voting on Charity (N.B. Votes may only be cast by those who have participated in a previous cycle)
- Voting in of committee foe 2013/2014
- Financial report
- Constitutional Amendments Ballot (More details will be sent with an AGM reminder)
- AOB
The committee members for 2014 will also be decided upon and we will be taking suggestions for future fundraisers.
If you would like to get involved with the committee this year and think you can lend a hand to the enthusiastic team behind all the fun, please do come along and make yourself known! It's a great experience and I would encourage you to get involved!
Tickets for the Galway Cycle Ball will also be on sale on the night! If you cannot attend, you can still buy them online at www.galwaycycle.ie. Make sure you get them before they sell out, it promises to be a brilliant night!!
Hope to see you all on Wednesday,
The Galway Cycle Committee 2013.
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The shortlisted charities (from your votes) are:
- Barretstown
- Children's Research and Medical Foundation
- Console
- Laura Lynn Sunshine House/Hospice Foundation
- Prader Willi Syndrome Association of Ireland
Barretstown is a specially-designed camp that provides Therapeutic Recreation programmes for children with serious illnesses, and their families.
Founded by Hollywood actor Paul Newman in 1994 and modelled on his renowned Hole-in-the-Wall Camp in Connecticut, USA it provides unobtrusive medical supervision and helps children with cancer and other serious diseases to learn to have fun and rebuild their confidence and self-esteem.
Barretstown is much more than a holiday for these sick children – the summer camps for children and the spring and autumn weekend camps for families are carefully-directed psychosocial support programmes of Therapeutic Recreation.
Barretstown is a break from hospitals and medical treatment and a chance for sick children to be children again: to have fun, to make friends and create new memories, all within the beautiful and magical setting of Barretstown Castle in Co.Kildare.
Website: www.barretstown.org
Children's Medical and Research Foundation
When a child you love is sick, your top priority is finding the best care available. It’s ours too. At the Children’s Medical & Research Foundation, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, our team has one simple mission – helping kids and their families.
The Children’s Medical & Research Foundation (CMRF) is the principal fundraising body for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin as well as the National Children’s Research Centre and is dedicated to working to improve the quality of life for this and future generations of sick children. We play a key role in supporting the hospital to deliver state of the art facilities; equipment, infrastructure, leisure and entertainment devices for the children, accommodation for families and other special requirements and needs. In addition we fund vital paediatric research and have been able to establish the National Children’s Research Centre (NCRC), a world class facility which provides state of the art laboratory facilities for investigation into the causes and treatments of childhood disease.
Website: www.cmrf.org
Console
Console is a national suicide prevention and bereavement charity, founded in 2002 by family’s who had experienced the loss of someone close to suicide. They have counselling centres in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Wexford, Tralee, Mayo and Athlone. They also provide Irelands only free, 24 hour telephone helpline for people with suicidal difficulties or in distress.
The range of services provided by Console is very varied – all are free to the public and very accessible around the country. Professional counselling, therapy or group support is provided for families, individuals or groups touched by suicide. In particular, they provide Irelands only, highly-specialised child psychotherapy service, supporting children as young as 6, siblings and parents, when bereaved or impacted on by another’s suicide.
Website: www.console.ie
The Laura Lynn Hospice Foundation/Sunshine House
"Putting life into a child's day, not days into a child's life"It is through Jane and Brendan McKenna's sorrow that the 'LauraLynn Children's Hospice Foundation' came to be set up. "The loss of our beautiful daughters, Lynn and Laura, taken away so early in their lives, is something we must try to live with every moment of every day. The pain is indescribable, but we cannot change what is. There is our hope though, that some good can come out of our sadness".Objectives:
- Practical and emotional support to those caring for a sick child.
- Medical care and Emergency care.
- Respite care, not only for the sick child, but for the family and siblings, offering siblings support groups and activities.
- Encourage families to build up a "buddy" support system.
- Giving families choices:
- To stay and share the care of their child.
- Be there as a family, or leave the child in Hospice care and take a break away, knowing their child will have the same loving care as they themselves give.
- Spend more time with the other children in the family, who are often left out and choice when the end sadly comes
- Offer Palliative care as necessary, and continued support as needed following a child's death.
What PWSAI do:
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a complex genetic disorder that typically causes low muscle tone, short stature, sleep apnoea, scoliosis, cognitive disabilities, mental health issues, and is probably most recognised by a chronic feeling of hunger that can lead to excessive eating and subsequent life- threatening obesity.
The Prader-Willi Syndrome Association Ireland (PWSAI) works to raise awareness and understanding of Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) and to improve the choice and quality of care, education and support for persons with PWS.
PWSAI organises regular events including family support days and conferences, and facilitates contacts between individual families in which there is a person with PWS. PWSAI also offers current information about PWS to people with PWS, their families and carers, and the wider community.
PWSAI also seeks to encourage and promote research into PWS and maintains strong relationships with international PWS organisations, national organisations working to support people with disabilities, and organisations that provide services specifically to people with PWS and their families.
Website: www.pwsai.ie
Galway Cycle President 2012/13
Emma Kilgannon,
pres...@galwaycycle.ie
087 6182119
www.galwaycycle.ie
www.jackandjill.ie