Every week in the Her.ie offices we are inundated with requests from people asking us to help them promote their charity events. While every cause is worthwhile, unfortunately we can’t get around to all of them and so for that reason, we have decided to put together some of these events from around the country. Every week, we will feature five events you should get behind or get involved with over the next few months. There are tonnes of amazing organisations in this country, let’s help them out.
Bake It Better For Temple Street
Roz Purcell, was joined by some of Temple Street's little patients to launch the baking fundraiser The Great Irish Bake which is asking families, businesses and schools to dust off their aprons on April 17
th to raise funds for Temple Street Children’s Hospital.
Whether you're at home, school or at work you can join in and help Temple Street to raise more than €150,000 from bake sales. To take part in Temple Street’s Great Irish Bake, supported by Tesco, on Friday April 17
th please register at
www.templestreet.ie today to receive your fundraising pack.
Feeling UberGIVING? Donate Unwanted Clothes This Week To The Simon Community
On Saturday, February 28 between 12pm-6pm, Dubliners will be able to request an UberGIVING car to come and collect surplus clothing from their home and donate it to the Dublin’s leading homless charity, ‘Dublin Simon Community’.
Dublin Simon Community works to prevent and address homelessness in Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow and provides services at all stages of homelessness to enable people to move to a place they can call home.
- Start collecting unwanted items for donation on Saturday:
- Clothing (in good condition)
- Accessories: handbags, jewellery, belts, hats, scarves, gloves, sealed cosmetics
- Toiletries (new/unused): toothpaste, shower gel, deodorants, toothbrushes, soaps, shampoo, conditioner, perfume, aftershave, make-up, shaving foam/gel, hair brushes/combs, nail brushes, body lotion, face creams, cotton buds/cotton wool.
- On Saturday:
- Open the Uber app between 12pm and 6pm
- Request the ‘UberGIVING’ option on the bottom of the screen.
- A car will arrive to pick up used clothing and drop off the donation to Simon Community, free of charge.
Help Women Dress For Success On International Women's Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2015
taking place on Friday 6th March, Dress for Success Dublin is teaming up with many of Dublin’s companies to raise funds, collect clothes and support women on their journey toward employment.
Dress for Success Dublin helps unemployed women get back into the workforce by providing professional clothing and career mentoring. Just €50 provides a suit and interview support to 1 woman, €500 allows us to run a workshop supporting 25 women to land a job and €5,000 supports our Career Centre for three months.
If you are interested in lending your support the team are looking for people to join their cause this year. Organise a clothes collection, host a coffee morning, run a raffle or an office dress-down-day fashion show…..
For more information, contact the team
here.
If you have a charity event you would like included in the Lend A Hand feature, send on the info to hello@her.ie, or alternatively email liz.mchugh@her.ie 
