Get Involved

• Feel-good factor through raising much-needed funds to support children and adolescents with Down syndrome.
• A meaningful experience away from a typical workday.
• Team-building experience for employees.
• Positive association for the company with a well-known children’s charity.
• Increased awareness of the company’s CSR activities.

1. We require Volunteers, Marshals, Meet and Greeters, and Bucket Collectors and many other unique volunteering opportunities for many of our fundraising events throughout the year.
2. Host your own event or take on a marathon/challenge to raise vital funds. Bake sales, coffee mornings, costume days, and pub quizzes are all great ways to have fun while raising much-needed funds.
3. Take part in a competitive and fun Superhero’s Challenge!
4. Payroll Giving is an easy and efficient way for employees to donate to our work directly from their monthly salary. It is quick and easy to set up and all modern payroll systems can incorporate this method of donating. You can choose how much you want to donate, but if you give more than €250 a year (or €21 a month), your donations can have double the impact.

• Select teams with equal numbers within your workplace. There is no limit as to how many teams you can have.
• Each team will be given €100 seed money. The aim is to use this money to generate as much profit as possible.
• Create as many internal and/or external fundraising events within a defined period of time.
• You choose whatever timeframe best suits your schedule. It can be anything from one week to six months!
• The team who raises the most money, not only wins bragging rights but wins the Down Syndrome Centre Superhero’s trophy.

• An original and exciting teambuilding challenge for employees.
• Encourages healthy competition between teams.
• Good publicity and engagement through social media activity.
• Positive association with a well-known, highly respected and trusted children’s charity.
• Increased awareness of the company’s CSR activities.

For most people, our will is one way of looking after the people we care about. We all would like to leave something to our loved ones to help make sure that they’re OK when we’re gone.

Leaving a gift to The Down Syndrome Centre will help us make sure we can be there for vulnerable children with Down syndrome. Everyone wants children to have the best possible outcomes, and you can help make sure that happens.

Children born with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome which changes how the baby’s body and brain develop, which can cause both mental and physical challenges as they grow.

The most serious complications of Down syndrome include heart defects, blood disorders that can include leukaemia (cancer of the blood), and immune system problems. Heart Defects – Approximately half of all babies with Down syndrome are born with heart defects. About 1 in 4 babies born with Down syndrome has a critical congenital heart defect and need surgery or other procedures in the first year of life.

People with Down syndrome usually have an IQ (a measure of intelligence) in the mildly-to-moderately low range and are slower to speak than other children.

Intervention Services early in life will help babies and children with Down syndrome to improve their physical and intellectual abilities and allow each child to reach their full potential. These services can help prevent problems occurring and or prevent them from getting worse and services help to foster a whole set of personal strengths and skills that prepare a child for adult life.

These services include speech, occupational, and physical therapy, group therapy, specialised programmes to prepare children for mainstream school and teen services to help young adolescents become more independent thus allowing them to participate in society and live fulfilling lives.

Gifts can come in all shapes and sizes. Big or small, every gift, no matter what size, helps to transform the lives of children and allow them to be included in the world around them as they grow up.