Photographs by Pat Tinsley
The Westgrove Hotel and Conference Centre in Clane has partnered with the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation for a second year in a row, building on the €7114.80 raised by Westgrove staff last year through family fun days, coffee mornings and a New Year’s Ball which will fund 444 home nursing hours from Jack & Jill for 17 local families currently under the wing of the Foundation.
The Westgrove Hotel’s first fundraiser for Jack & Jill in 2017, which is the charity’s 20th anniversary year, is a big Spinathon on Monday 30th January.
The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation which is based in Johnstown has supported 115 sick children in county Kildare since being established in 1997, and over 2,000 children nationally.
The plan again this year is for staff at the hotel to do monthly fundraisers on behalf of Jack & Jill such as coffee mornings, fitness activities like the forthcoming Spinathon and a whole lot more.
According to Jack & Jill’s CEO Hugo Jellett: "We are very honoured to be chosen as the Westgrove’s charity partner for a second year in a row, especially in this our 20th anniversary year and, on behalf of the families under our wing, I want to thank the Westgrove staff for investing so much time, creativity and effort into our Foundation.
"For our part, we can guarantee that every €16 raised will fund one hour of home nursing care for a sick child locally, so this is literally a ‘gift of time’ to locally families; time to do the normal things that others take for granted like sleeping, shopping or meeting a friend for a coffee.
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