We are delighted to announce our upcoming New York event, A Taste of HOPE. This will be cross-cultural evening of great live entertainment and wonderful food and drink from Ireland and India. The venue is the beautiful American Irish Historical Society building on 5th Avenue.
We are very excited to announce a very special evening of HOPE in New York on Wednesday September 26th. You are invited to Gossip Bar & Restaurant, 733 9th Avenue, for the official launch of The Hope Foundation USA!
We urgently need child sponsors for our programme in Kolkata. We have 49 children and 29 teenagers and young adults on the Educational Sponsorship list waiting for sponsors. Can you help us? For as little as €5 euro a week you will change a life. The Hope Foundation’s Educational Sponsorship Program was set up to…
Domini and Peaches Kemp have become two of Ireland’s leading food entrepreneurs after opening the popular Itsa café on Abbey Street in 1999. The company has now expanded to include seven branches of Itsa stores and six Itsa cafés, an outdoor catering company and speciality coffee outlet, Joe’s.
Peaches took her entrepreneurial skills to Kolkata in 2018. In this piece Peaches talks about her volunteering experience and her renewed faith in kindness.
The countdown is on for this year’s Rose of Tralee International Festival and we are very much looking forward to it! Last year’s winner Jennifer Byrne has been an incredible ambassador and we are very proud to work with such an inspirational woman this year.
The Annual CorkLunch 2018 is taking place on Friday, 21st September in the luxurious surroundings of Maryborough Hotel & Spa in Douglas
There will be a prosecco reception at 12 noon followed by a 3 course meal with wine and raffle. MC for the day will be TV presenter and fashion designer Brendan Courtney.
There was an amazing turnout in glorious sunshine for the 20th anniversary Calcutta Run last Saturday! HOPE is privileged to be partnered with such a great event, organised by the amazing people at the Law Society of Ireland. Thank you to RTE’s Nuala Carey and also to Alison Canavan for taking part and supporting the event this year.
Well done to all who organised and took part in the inaugural NYC Calcutta Run last Sunday! The start/finish was at Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. They braved the threat of lightning storms and ran from City Hall Park to Brooklyn over Manhattan Bridge and back via Brooklyn Bridge (a little over 5k).
We are all so proud of HOPE founder and Hon.Director Maureen Forrest who was honoured for her extraordinary contribition to humanity at the Network Cork Businesswoman Of The Year Awards recently.
Last week we welcomed over 180 guests to The InterContinental Hotel in Ballsbridge for our annual Dublin fundraising lunch. We were absolutely delighted with the huge show of support from new and returning corporate and individual supporters.