Focus Ireland has launched its Shine A Light Night Business Leader Sleepout and is calling on business leaders to sleep out for one night to help raise vital funds for its services working to prevent and combat family homelessness.
Newstalk’s Bobby Kerr, CEO of Focus Ireland Ashley Balbirne, The Dean of Christ Church Cathedral the Very Reverend Dermot Dunne and Paul Dunn from Merrion Fleet Management, officially launched Shine A Light Night 2015 at Christ Church this week.
The event takes place in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin and in Munster in Cork’s historic city Gaol, on the 16th of October and is part of a wider campaign to shine a light on the issue of homelessness.
Newstalk's Bobby Kerr, CEO of Focus Ireland Ashley Balbirne, The Dean of Christ Church Cathedral the Very Reverend Dermot Dunne and Paul Dunn from Merrion Fleet Management.
Business leaders participate in a series of critical issue think-tanks on the night, before they swap their executive chairs for sleeping bags and offer solidarity to those who have no place to call home and live in unstable, unsuitable and insecure accommodation, and who have to go through the trauma of losing their homes.
This year Newstalk have been announced as the official media partner for Shine A Light Night and Editor in Chief at the station, Garrett Harte, says they are delighted to support this unique event, "this is a real opportunity for corporate Ireland to make an impact on homelessness in Ireland. We have been supporting Shine A Light Night since its inception in 2012 and we are delighted to be Focus Ireland’s Media Partner for this year’s event. We hope our listeners get behind this great initiative."
