It’s that time of year again folks when all of us here in Down Syndrome Centre are gearing up in preparation for our annual Christmas fundraising lunch, Laughternoon.
As usual we’ll be in the Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, on Friday 16th December.
Tickets cost €125 per person. Tables of ten or twelve can be accommodated.
The ...
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Jackie O’Donohoe (RIP) was a wonderful supporter of this charity since it’s infancy. She wrote the book It’s Me! It’s Me! in 2005, and donated all royalties from it to Down Syndrome Centre. It tells a lively colourful story about a little girl full of sunshine learning to make friends in school.
This is a follow on from the highly successful Early Intervention for Babies Workshop, which addresses the next stage of development and how to support the child into ‘toddlerhood’.
This workshop will be facilitated by two of our professional website advisors, Occupational Therapist Ailish Kavanagh and Speech and Language Therapist Marinet van Vuren. And will take place in a Steiner ...
The next Early Intervention for Babies Workshop, will take place on Saturday, Aug 20th 2011. This workshop is hosted by our website advisor, Speech and Language Therapist, Marinet Van Vuren, together with Chartered Paediatric Physiotherapist, Gloria Vaughan.
Can you believe it's over!!!
What a great day we all had on Saturday - in all locations. The people queued. The doors opened, the rails and changing-rooms were stormed and then, music to our ears, the tills began to ring.
And they rang so much that we raised a total of €94,000 from this year's Buy My ...
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Here in the office we're surrounded by rails and rails of dresses ahead of this Saturday's Buy My Dress sales. A dress in every colour, every shape and size is there waiting for a new home - maybe even yours?
Doors open this Saturday at the eight Buy My Dress events countrywide from 10 - 6pm. No admission charge this ...
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While we can accept that there may be - some ! - valid reasons why you can't make it along to your nearest Buy My Dress event next Saturday 28th May, there's now no reason why you can't be seen to be supporting the event.
With the introduction this year of the beautiful, new 'Buy My Dress brooch', which we ...
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The Buy My Dress publicity train rumbles on(!) and yesterday we held a coffee morning in Dublin city centre to which we invited the female members of the Dail and Seanad.
Buy My Dress invites women from all walks of life to donate a dress and so we called on the ladies of leinster house to demonstrate leadership and offer ...
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Could you collect between 5 - 10 dresses by asking your own circle of friends, family and colleagues to donate?
If you can, did you know that we are offering a voucher for a free dress to the value of €50 when you attend one of our eight events on 28th May? www.buymydress.ie
All you have to do for ...
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The launch of Down Syndrome Centre's Buy My Dress 2011 took place today (05.05.11) in the Dylan Hotel, Dublin. In conjunction with our sponsors, Kellogg's Special K, we invited all our volunteers, supporters and other guests to join us for a fab fashion show at which dresses donated to Buy My Dress were modelled.
Broadcaster Sile ...
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Buy My Dress returns for the third year on 28th May with some great new developments for 2011.
Have you seen the campaign on the back of Special K boxes - these are not available in Tesco (as believe it or not Tesco only retail Special K stock which comes from UK distributors. So much for supporting Irish!!) However the opportunity ...
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Last night (29/March/2011) Down Syndrome Centre hosted the first General Information Evening for parents of children with Down syndrome.
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The first of our General Information Evenings for Parents of Children with Down syndrome takes place next Tuesday evening at 7.30pm (Tues 29th March) in the Shelbourne Hotel, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. It is suitable for parents of children of all ages to attend.
There will be two speakers during the evening, and a coffee break inbetween ...
Well it's that time of year again. Although the days might still seem a bit cold, it's time to start thinking about the Flora Ladies Mini Marathon, which takes place on Bank Holiday Monday, 6th June.
Down Syndrome Centre is hoping to organise a series of Yoga for Children classes in three locations around county Dublin. The venues will be in Sandyford (South Dublin), Castleknock (West Dublin) and Clontarf (North Dublin).
Isabelle Kelly and Gillian Fulcher, both Yoga instructors, with special interest in Yoga for Children, and children with special needs will teach the classes. They ...
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With more and more Buy My Dress events happening around the country this year – eight counties on board so far - we are on the hunt for voluntary event organisers in the following counties: Tipperary, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Westmeath, Clare and Louth.
Ever thought you'd like to organise an event for charity but not sure where to begin? We will ...
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We are delighted to let you know about the Run-A-Muck Challenge, Spring 2011. Run-A-Muck is an off road run with a fun and exhilarating twist for runners and joggers of all abilities. The spring challenge is taking place on Saturday March 5th in Clonkeeran House, Co. Kildare. http://www.runamuckchallenge.com
This wet and mucky course is not your usual ...
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Join us for a night of Glitz and Glamour in Trim Castle Hotel, Co Meath, on Thursday 10th March from 7.30pm - 10pm.
Programme:
7.30pm - Drinks Reception
8.00pm - Part 1: Sizzling Style
8.45pm - Interval & Raffle
9.15pm - Part 2: Fashion Forward
9.45pm - Finale
Join us and bedazzled by some of Meath's finest boutiques including: Ribbon ...
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The first new parent evening of 2011 takes place on Tuesday evening, 25th January in the Shelbourne Hotel when our Down Syndrome Liaison Nurse, Angela O'Riordan and Speech and Language Therapist, Marinet van Vuren will present to new parents.
There is no charge for attendance at these meetings and they are organised to welcome new parents and provide them ...
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The next Early Intervention for Babies Workshop, will take place on Saturday, Feb 12th 2011. This workshop is hosted by our website advisor, Speech and Language Therapist, Marinet Van Vuren, together with Chartered Paediatric Physiotherapist, Gloria Vaughan.
The workshop is limited to 10 sets of parents and the therapists will divide the three hour Saturday morning session between them to ...
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The third Laughternoon Christmas lunch takes place in three weeks time and we are extremely fortunate to have so many loyal followers who make it possible for us to continue to organise this event.
Author, Paul Howard (aka Ross O'Carroll Kelly) will join us before lunch to give a reading and comedian Gearoid Farrelly will entertain after lunch is ...
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