Jack & Jill | Charity Fundraister Christmas 2025
This year, we are proud to partner with The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation for our annual fundraiser, supporting their incredible work providing vital in-home nursing care and respite support for children and families across Ireland. To mark this partnership, we’re hosting a special giveaway featuring exceptional prizes.
Their Mission
Empowering the families we support to care for their child at home, by funding and delivering nursing, respite and advocacy.
Their Service
Jack and Jill is a nationwide charity that funds and provides up to 100 hours per month of in-home nursing care and respite support to families caring for children, up to the age of six, with severe learning disability often associated with complex medical needs. Typically, these children may be tube fed, oxygen dependent, may not sleep, take seizures, need a lot of medication and require around-the-clock care. Understandably, their parents can be exhausted and need a break, which is where Jack and Jill comes in. Our service operates seven days a week, with no means test, no red tape and no waiting list. Another key part of our service is end-of-life-care for all children up to the age six, irrespective of diagnosis, empowering parents to take their child home to die at this most difficult time.
In 2024, Jack and Jill supported 539 families across Ireland with in-home nursing care and respite support. Today, there are 440 families under our care, and 3,161 families have been supported by Jack and Jill since 1997.
Their Purpose
Jack and Jill was set up by two pioneering parents in 1997, Mary Ann O’Brien and Jonathan Irwin, based on their family’s experience, caring for their son Jack at home with the help of local nurses, until he passed away at home in Kildare at the age of 22 months on 13th December 1997.
Jack’s bespoke home nursing care plan became the blueprint for over 3,153 children who’ve been supported by Jack and Jill since then, as Mary Ann and Jonathan vowed that no parents should have to walk this difficult care journey alone. They set about establishing a practical in-home nursing care and respite support model and raising funds to deliver it.
Donate now to enter our amazing giveaway
Donate at least €5 to our annual Christmas Fundraiser in support of The Jack and Jill Children's Foundation for a chance to win a Chopard Bracelet valued at over €1,500.
