Nominate a local health charity to receive €5,000

Ecclesiastical Insurance Ireland is inviting people in Kilkenny to nominate a health charity to receive €5,000 as part of Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards. Now in its fth year, the Movement for Good Awards will once again see more than

€1million gifted to charities throughout Ireland and the UK. Ecclesiastical Insurance Ireland, part of the Benefact Group, is encouraging people to nominate, this time a health charity, to win one of ten €5,000 special grants. is new special draw is designed for charities whose core charitable purpose is the advancement of health or the saving of lives.

Nominations for the health charity special grants are open from Monday 15 May to Friday 19 May 2023.

Winners will be drawn at random and the more times a charity is nominated the more chance it has of being selected.

Since the awards began, many Irish health organisations have bene tted, including Accessible Counselling Tullamore, Active Connections and Breakthrough

Cancer Research which are both based in Cork, Friends of the Coombe and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.

Some other previous entries have been successful on multiple occasions including Navan’s Little Blue Heroes Foundation, the Central Remedial

Clinic in Dublin and the Community Crisis Response Team which is based in Limerick.

It’s quick and easy to nominate a charity supporting Physical and Mental Health –just visit https://health. movementforgood. com/ecclesiastical and cast your vote.

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