Sponsor a Room, Save a Life.
Cork Simon Community
50 years of Cork Simon Community believing that everyone should have fair access to safe, secure and affordable housing.
With the need for beds at an all-time high we have never needed Room Sponsors more than we do right now.
How to do it
1. Sign Up to become a Room Sponsor
Fill in your details safely and securely to set-up your monthly donation.
2. Review your details
We’ll send you an email confirming that your Room Sponsorship has been set-up. Make sure your details are correct.
3.?Check your Welcome Pack
We’ll send your welcome pack by post. It will include your membership card, your free key-ring and details about how we will process your donations.
You can become a Room Sponsor by simply taking out a monthly Direct Debit to help us keep our doors open.
Why you should become a Room Sponsor
Save a Life
When you sign up to become a Room Sponsor you make a lifesaving decision. Commitment like yours goes beyond food, warmth and shelter. As a Room Sponsor, with your gift you are giving someone the help they need to rebuild their life.
No Place Like Home
For some, that journey starts in our Emergency Shelter or in one of our High Support Houses. For others it can be helping them secure decent, safe housing at a rent they can afford. But ultimately you can help someone find a place to call home.
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Join the Community of Room Sponsors
The kindness and commitment of our Community of Room Sponsors ensures someone can access the supports they need when they need them. Thanks to Room Sponsors like you, we are able to offer people a hot nutritious meal, a safe place to stay, and access to addiction and counselling services.
Cian’s Story
“Knowing that I’ve got this nice, safe place to come back to gives me a great feeling of contentment. That feeling of being able to sit in silence – no telly or radio on or not on the phone or anything, and just being grateful and happy; content with the four walls. It’s something that I didn’t often have through the years.
I was homeless a few times. Life was a lot crazier. Every day was like being in a war zone with myself and with the world around me. I had no sense of security or calmness. Chaos just ensued every day and the places where I was staying weren’t in any way conducive towards getting better.
Moving in here, and having the stability of it, was a great, big feeling of relief. It was like a door was after closing behind me – in a good way. Closing off the past, closing off the madness and the misery. And that opening up ahead was the possibility of being secure and safe. I had a homely feeling about the place from the get-go.
My life has slowly built to where I’m now able to deal with the ups and downs of life in a level headed way without things spiralling out of control.
My mental health is stable now and has been for a good few years. I’ve been able to work through the addiction – I’m five years sober. I’m able to meet people, meet the neighbours and have a bit of banter with them. For the first time in my life, I can finally immerse myself in this lovely community, in the town where I live, as opposed to being an outsider.
I’ve got a job in a training centre as a support worker for people on the ADHD spectrum, and people with acquired brain injury. I love it. I feel proud in the mornings walking or cycling down to work, knowing that I’m out and about doing something, and all the luckier because it brings a smile to my face. I would never have believed it all those years ago when I moved in here that I’d be able to give my time or involve myself in a generous, helpful way.
I got a second life when I got this place through Simon – a life I never had all along. A sense of purpose, a sense of worth and security. It’s more than just walls and a roof. Simon has my back. I’m able to journey through whatever the world throws at me knowing that I’ve got that security behind me.
It’s such a change from living out of a rucksack; from walking the streets with no security for the night ahead; from having no future, no dream, no lust or zest for life or anything. I’m looking forward to the future now with great anticipation, expectation and excitement.
And I love it…it’s like, yeah, my hobby is living. And that’s all from moving in here.”