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On Friday, December 6, COPE Galway Business Leaders’ Sleep Out participants spent 12 hours on the streets of Galway City. The aim was to draw attention to the issue of homelessness in Galway, to generate an understanding of what it is to sleep out on the streets in winter and to raise essential funds to make sure the charity can continue to respond to these challenges and offer vital supports for people who find themselves affected by homelessness.

If you are the parent of an examination student, you will know all too well that after the high point of Easter comes the countdown to the Junior and Leaving Certificate.

COPE Galway wishes to extend a warm and heartfelt thank you to the over 700 swimmers and dippers who registered to take part in the COPE Galway Christmas Swim over Christmas Week (20-26 December).

Every year, there are men, women and children in our community for whom Christmas is the loneliest time of year. Whether due to the isolation that sometimes comes with older age; whether you have had to flee violence at home or if you are enduring the realities of homelessness, this season can compound what is already an exceptionally difficult time.

While 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, it was also a year in which we witnessed the very best of society.

LifeWave as a global healthcare company, based in Athenry, and employing over 120 people locally, recognises the benefits of exercise in people’s lives. Lifewave also recognises the beneficial role charities play in people’s lives in our communities.

COPE Galway has extended its thanks to Galwegians near and far who have shown solidarity and support for local people in need this Christmas by taking part in the charity’s 10-day “Swim Where You Are” Christmas event, which ended yesterday. The charity, which was unable to hold its traditional Christmas Day swim at Blackrock this year due to Covid-19 restrictions, said it has been overwhelmed by the swim photos and messages of support sent in by well wishers.

Global Home Warranties has donated €1 for every house registered with it in Ireland 2019/2020 to local charity, COPE Galway, raising a total of €3,620.

COPE Galway has issued an urgent appeal to the people of Galway to help the local organisation support the most vulnerable people in our community during the Corona Virus emergency. The local charity operates frontline services for families and individuals in Galway who are homeless; women who experience domestic abuse (and their children) and older people who now, more than ever, may experience social isolation while they protect themselves at home.