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Thomond Community College raise funds for charities

Thomond Community College raise funds for charities.
Pictured at the Thomond Community College Jeans Day were Ms Hogan, Vice principal TCC , Mrs Anslow Business Teacher TCC , Holly O’ Keeffe, Chelsea O’Donoghue, Tori Byrnes, Nicola Burke, Mr O’Brien, Principal TCC, Geraldine Clancy from the Simon Community Limerick.

Thomond Community College students have taken the opportunity to raise much-needed funds for a number of local and national charities through their Enterprise module as part of the school’s curriculum.

Students from Thomond Community College have been busy fundraising for four charities. The sixth-year LCVP group taught by Mrs Anslow, a teacher from the Business Department have organised everything from coffee mornings and bake sales to guess how many jellies in the jar games! They raised 73

Thomond Community College raise funds

Thomond Community College raise funds for charities. Pictured at the Thomond Community College Cake sale were Fiona Tang, Mirela Shinnors and Abbie Mc Namara.


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They raised 73 Euro for the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, 131 Euro for Milford Hospice and 90 Euro for Limerick Animal Welfare. Their final event raised 401 euro – it was a ‘jeans day’ in aid of the homeless for Christmas which was given to the Simon Community in Limerick. Since the students were doing an enterprise module as part of LCVP they could have kept the money themselves but as one student, Holly O’Keeffe, pointed out, “Giving is always better than receiving and if we can make people’s Christmas a bit better, we would like to try.”

Well done to all involved!

Thomond Community College is an amalgamation of St. Nessan’s and Salesian’s secondary schools; the school opened its doors in its current form in September 2016 and teaches almost 500 students. Thomond Community College is located in the state-of-the-art, former St. Nessan’s Community College facility off the Old Cratloe Road.  Its students are drawn predominantly from Limerick city and county but also east Clare.

Here you can find out more about Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
You can find out more about Limerick Animal Welfare here.
Find out more about Milford hospice here.
Here you can find out about the Simon Community.
To read about limerick charity, click here.

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