London Irish Pensioner Advocacy and Support

john ocallaghan is raising money for Southwark Irish Pensioners Project
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The Big Half 2018 · 4 March 2018 ·

Since 1994, we have helped Irish people who emigrated here in the 1950's & 1960's to get the essential support they need to enjoy a comfortable & decent retirement. Our day services and community support services provide a lifeline to hundreds of isolated elderly Irish people in south London.

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Hello, Southwark Irish Pensioners Project (SIPP), www.irishinlondon.org, is run by volunteers with direct or first generation Irish connections. Its aim is to assist older Irish in South London. This can simply be as a friend all the way through to those with high dependency requirements that need an advocate.

I have volunteered with SIPP for the past decade, visiting some fine Irishmen who never went home again and who are at the end alone and needing support. 

In that time, I have personally witnessed how SIPP have stretched a small budget over a huge number of abandoned and vulnerable older Irish people in south London. 

Some links that will give better colour

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/nora-higgins-a-lifetime-helping-irish-emigrants-in-britain-1.2897769 

https://vimeo.com/76687607 

Please give generously. I have seen how the money is spent and the good it does. There is also the added kick of seeing me waddle through the streets of East and South East London in vacuum packed running shorts, lock up your daughters.

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