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Above from left: Minister for Housing Darrah O’Brien TD, Peter McVerry, and Pat Doyle, CEO of Peter McVerry Trust,

This morning/afternoon.

Haddington Road, Dublin 4.

Minister for Housing Darrah O’Brien helped launch the Peter McVerry Trust annual report and announce a ‘major new construction programme of social housing units’ by the charity at the construction site of 18 new housing units.

Annual Report (Peter McVerry Trust)

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This afternoon.

Peter McVerry Trust tweetz:

Art packs we’ve put together for children and teenagers in our Family Hubs.

Art is one of the ways we’re trying to create a positive atmosphere for families in our services during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Please consider supporting our emergency response.

Emergency Response (Peter McVerry Trust)

This morning.

Rick O’Shea, whose Book Club currently has 28,000 members and who starts as the new presenter of the RTÉ Radio 1 Book Show on December 8, writes:

Last year The Rick O’Shea Book Club Christmas Appeal raised over €51,000 in aid of the Peter McVerry Trust’s work helping those who need the most help in the middle of Ireland’s homelessness crisis.

Sadly Ireland’s homelessness crisis hasn’t improved in the intervening 12 months.

This year I want us to raise even more so here’s what you can do:Donate the price of an average second hand book – €5.

We start now and the appeal closes on New Year’s Eve.

Donate here

The Rick O’Shea Book Club

Tonight, from 5pm until 9pm, and tomorrow night, from 11am until 5pm.

At the Copper House Gallery in Dublin 8.

The ‘Sheltered Charity Through The Arts’ exhibition, in aid of the Peter McVerry Trust, will be taking place, to wit:

“Our aim is to raise awareness and much needed funds to help combat adult homelessness and families in crisis in Ireland.

“The event is free and will bring together a collective of established and up-and-coming artists to showcase their work and auction pieces of art. We will also host an online auction.

“In addition to the art, there will be musicians, poets, spoken word and guest speakers over the two days, with an after party taking place at the Hendrick Hotel in Smithfield on the final night.”

Sheltered Charity Through The Arts

From top: Graphic showing number of empty homes in rural Ireland; figures from Peter McVerry Trust report on rural homelessness

Homeless charity Peter McVerry Trust has launched a new report on rural homelessness.

From the report:

As of April 2019, there were 40,234 mortgages across Ireland in long-term mortgage arrears (two years or more).

According to information published each year by the Central Bank, rural counties have the highest percentage of mortgages in arrears as a percentage of all mortgages.

This has the potential to impact heavily on rural homelessness given the rates of mortgage distress and repossession

In 2018 financial institutions across Ireland repossessed 1,284 homes.

Peter McVerry Trust tweetz:

Homelessness is impacting small towns across Ireland – not just larger urban areas.

Peter McVerry Trust publishes new report on rural homelessness (Peter McVery Trust)

A week ago, on Monday, November 12, RTÉ Gold presenter Rick O’Shea asked members of his book club to donate the price of a cheap paperback book, €5, to housing and homeless charity, the Peter McVerry Trust.

Since then, €13,300 has been raised for the charity.

Now he’s calling on corporations and companies to contribute, saying:

“I’d love companies and corporates to consider giving a tiny something at this time of year on top of all of the members of the public digging deep. Your fiver will make such a difference to the number of people they can help on cold, dark Irish streets this Christmas.”

Anyone who wishes can donate here

Thanks Yvonne Judge

A stocking filler with a difference.

No Fixed Abode is a group exhibition of donated homeless-themed works in aid of the Peter McVerry Trust at Copper House Gallery, Saint Kevins Cottages, Synge Street, Dublin 8 running until December 22.

Donna writes:

In The Copper House Gallery, we are holding a special Christmas launch on Wednesday, December 6 to encourage people to come along and support the great and essential work of The Peter McVerry Trust by buying an original piece of art.

Over 120 artists have donated their pieces to the exhibition and 100% of the proceeds go to The Peter McVerry Trust. All the works are priced to sell with some well known names. There is a style and a price range to suit everyone so this year why not give the gift of original art?

You can check a name off your Christmas list, support original Irish artists and raise funds that go directly to combat the escalating homelessness crisis. If you can make it to the launch on the 6th December, you can do it all with a Christmas beverage in hand!

Hic.

No Fixed Abode Christmas Fundraiser (Facebook)

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’

No Fixed Abode is a group exhibition of donated homeless-themed works by artists, illustrators, photographers and sculptures in aid of the Peter McVerry Trust.

Launching at 6pm in the Copper House, Saint Kevins Cottages, Synge Street, Dublin 8.

No Fixed Abode runs until Friday, December 22 (Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm).

No Fixed Abode (Facebook)

Earlier: Another Record

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These Little Things.

A one-minute cinema ad for the Peter McVerry Trust in collaboration with Wide Eye Media, IAPI, Pull the Trigger and Havas Dublin.

Further to this.

On Wednesday night, at 8.56pm, a three-minute ad of the same vein will be broadcast simultaneously on RTE One and RTE Two.

Laura Halpin and Ronán Jennings, of Havas Dublin, wrote the script; it was directed by Kieron J Whelan and it involved Oscar winning director Lenny Abrahamson.

RTÉ Television to Celebrate Irish Creativity (RTÉ)

Thanks John Gallen