Christmas FM is delighted to announce ALONE, the organisation that supports
older people to age at home, as the official charity partner for the festive
radio station for 2020.
The radio station is aiming to raise over â¬200,000 which will go directly
towards ALONEâs mission to provide support coordination, befriending, and
access to all of ALONEâs services to thousands of older people every week who
are homeless, socially isolated, living in deprivation or in a crisis.
Donations from listeners will enable ALONE to provide over 20,000 hours of
vital support to older people in Ireland enabling them to live happily and
independently in their own homes and communities, as there is no place like
home â especially at Christmas time.
Christmas FM will be celebrating its 13th year on air this year when it
launches in November and, since it began broadcasting, has raised almost â¬2.5
million for a range of charities. The costs of running Christmas FM are covered
by various sponsors, ensuring that all on-air fundraising and donations will go
directly to ALONE.
Garvan Rigby, a co-founder of Christmas FM, says:
â2020 has been an unprecedented and tough year on us all but especially on
the older generation. ALONE is a very special organisation who, now more than
ever, need our help and we are delighted to be partnering with them for
Christmas FM this year.â
âThe radio station creates a feel-good festive factor that is unrivalled
anywhere else, and we look forward to sharing that with everyone at ALONE â
staff, volunteers and, of course, all who avail of its wonderful service. As
sponsorship pays the running costs of the radio station, this means that all
monies raised on air through donations can go directly to ALONE and we look
forward to raising as much as possible this year for such a worthy cause.â
ALONE was founded by Dublin fireman Willie Bermingham in 1977. During a cold
winter in 1976, Willie and his colleagues found the remains of a number of
older people in tenements throughout the city. Willie was so shocked by the
appalling conditions they had died in that he, and a small group of friends and
colleagues began distributing food, fuel and blankets to those older people who
were most in need. Today, ALONE continues its work providing direct services to
thousands of older people as well as campaigning for the rights of older people
in our society.
Commenting on the charity partnership with Christmas FM, Seán Moynihan, CEO of
ALONE, said:
âThe ALONE community are delighted to be the named charity partner for
Christmas FM this year. Our âGive the Gift of Homeâ campaign resonates so
highly and thoughtfully with what we hope to achieve through this partnership
â raising necessary funds to enable older people to stay in their homes for
as long as they wish. Loneliness, poverty, homelessness, housing and medical
issues, unfortunately, can be indiscriminate. We have an ageing population,
which is a great accomplishment we can be celebrating, but as a result of this
we are also witnessing an ever-increasing cohort of older people facing the
above challenges â never thinking they could be the one.â
âWe are determined to make this the best and most meaningful Christmas ever
as COVID-19 has made this such a trying year for all individuals. Our older
generation have been asked to cocoon making their home the only safe location
for them. We want everyoneâs house to be a home and we hope we can achieve
this through our Christmas FM partnership this year.â
To find out more about ALONE visit:
www.alone.ie <http://www.alone.ie>
follow:
<https://www.twitter.com/ALONE_IRELAND> @ALONE_IRELAND on Twitter
<https://www.facebook.com/ALONEIreland/> ALONE Ireland on Facebook.
Christmas FM plays round-the-clock Christmas tunes, spreading an abundance of
festive cheer and seasonal goodwill every single day in the run-up to
Christmas. Broadcasting almost nationwide, Christmas FM is listened to by
almost one in three adults. It is entirely funded through sponsorship and run
each year by more than 100 volunteers on-air, devoting hundreds of hours of
their time. The station is also available online at:
www.christmasfm.com <http://www.christmasfm.com>
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