REPRO FREE 26/01/2023 Three Irish charities were provided with 390,000 reasons to smile on Thursday morning as daa, the company which operates Cork and Dublin airports, were presented with their share of the proceeds of the fundraising efforts of daa staff. daa’s three chosen charities for 2022 – The Mater Foundation, Feed Our Homeless and St Francis Hospice – will each receive €130,000, which has been raised via daa’s Charity of the Year scheme, which is managed by staff of the company.
Pictured at the cheque handover in daa’s offices at Dublin Airport on Thursday morning were Natasha Morgan, Co-Founder of Feed Our Homeless with Brian Drain, Chief People Officer, daa, Fintan Fegan, CEO of St Francis Hospice and Mary Moorehead, CEO of The Mater Foundation. Daa employees select the charities that benefit each year before embarking on a wide range of fundraising activities over the course of the following twelve months. Picture Andres Poveda
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The fundraising efforts of staff at airport operating company daa, supported by passengers at Dublin Airport, saw cheques presented today totalling €390,000 to three charities following a number of successful fundraising activities over the past three years.
The three charities – St. Francis Hospice, The Mater Foundation, and Feed Our Homeless – were each presented with a cheque for €130,000 at a special ceremony at Dublin Airport on Wednesday morning.
This takes the total amount raised by daa staff since 2007 to more than €3.4 million, which has been shared amongst 30 charities.
The money was raised via daa’s Charity of the Year scheme, which is managed by the staff of the company. Employees select the charities that benefit each year before embarking on a wide range of fundraising activities over the course of the following twelve months.
daa’s Charities of the Year scheme is one of the largest such programmes in Ireland.
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