Charity Partners
Remote Tribes Mission
Our mission is to help make a difference to children and families across Ireland and the world. We are passionate about supporting organisations that share our ethos and values.
Throughout 2021 we will be donating 1/3 of our profits to charity. We will split this between our chosen charities are The Laura Lynn Foundation, Charity Water and The Jack and Jill Foundation.
You can read a little bit more about these amazing organisations below.
LauraLynn, Ireland's Children's Hospice
LauraLynn is a hospice for children with life-limiting conditions and residential care for children and young adults with disabilities. We employ approximately 140 staff within our teaching, fundraising and care provision departments.
The history of our hospice has evolved over many years from its beginnings in 1923 as a convalescence home for children from the inner city, to the opening in 2011 of LauraLynn House, a dedicated eight bed children’s palliative care unit. This award winning healthcare building and it’s everyday operations are funded by the generous support of our donors.
On our 3.6 acre site, in addition to LauraLynn House are Hazel House, Holly Oaks and Willow View, which were formerly known collectively as Children’s Sunshine Home. Within these residential houses we provide care for young people with intellectual disabilities and funding is provided by the HSE. In providing a safe and effective service for the children and young people within our care, we are guided by HIQA’s key principles of care.
Charity: Water
charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.
785 million people live without clean water. That’s nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide, or, twice the population of the United States without access to life’s most basic human need. The majority live in isolated rural areas and spend hours every day walking to collect water for their family. Not only does walking for water keep kids out of school and take up time that parents could be using to earn money, but the water often carries diseases that make them sick.
When a community gets access to clean water, it can change just about everything.
It can improve health, increase access to food, grow local economies, and help kids spend more time in school.
The water crisis is huge, but it is solvable. We work with local experts and community members to find the best sustainable solution in each place where we work, whether it’s a well, a piped system, a BioSand Filter, or a system for harvesting rainwater. And with every water point we fund, our partners coordinate sanitation and hygiene training and establish a local Water Committee to help keep water flowing for years to come
On our 3.6 acre site, in addition to LauraLynn House are Hazel House, Holly Oaks and Willow View, which were formerly known collectively as Children’s Sunshine Home. Within these residential houses we provide care for young people with intellectual disabilities and funding is provided by the HSE. In providing a safe and effective service for the children and young people within our care, we are guided by HIQA’s key principles of care.
The Jack & Jill Children's Foundation
The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation was set up in 1997 by Jonathan Irwin and his wife Mary Ann O’Brien (founder Lily O’Brien’s chocolates), in memory of their son Jack who suffered a brain trauma shortly after birth that left him developmentally delayed and shattered the dreams and hopes of his parents.
They were traumatised. However, despite the medical advice at that time that there was no support for Jack outside of the hospital, the family brought Jack home and cobbled together a homecare plan with the help of five local nurses from their neighbourhood.
Baby Jack lived at home for 22 months and died on 13th December 1997 in the arms of his favourite nurse, having taught his family and friends what the best homecare looks like and how short lives can have such a long lasting impact. His parents vowed that no other family would have to walk this difficult care journey alone and the Jack & Jill Foundation became the pathway from hospital to homecare through Jack’s legacy. Jack’s homecare plan was the blueprint for the Jack & Jill Foundation’s unique model of child and family centred care that gives the parent carer a break from the intensive home care regime required for a child like Jack and since then over 2,400 precious children and their family have been supported by the Foundation.
On our 3.6 acre site, in addition to LauraLynn House are Hazel House, Holly Oaks and Willow View, which were formerly known collectively as Children’s Sunshine Home. Within these residential houses we provide care for young people with intellectual disabilities and funding is provided by the HSE. In providing a safe and effective service for the children and young people within our care, we are guided by HIQA’s key principles of care.
Jack & Jill is always mindful of the isolation and loneliness that families experience and nurses pay particular attention to the needs and emotions of the healthy brothers and sisters who can so easily be overlooked.
The name Jack & Jill has its origins in the nursery rhyme Jack & Jill went up the Hill to fetch a pail of Water; Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after. The reference to crown or head is synonymous with brain trauma or injury and Jack & Jill rolls off the tongue easily.
Who knew that a little boy called Jack would have such a big impact.
