Ireland West Airport has announced that the Connacht SBHI Branch (Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland), Dillon Quirke Foundation, Mayo Roscommon Hospice, Order of Malta (Knock Branch), The National Breast Cancer Research Institute and Western Alzheimers have been selected by airport staff as their charity partners for 2025.
Several events will take place during the year, which will engage passengers and staff to raise as much money as possible for their charity partners. The headline event will again be the annual Portwest 5k runway fun run, which will take place on the runway at Ireland West Airport in September. Full details will be announced in the coming weeks.
In a new Charity initiative for 2025, the airport has designated a section of their bins in the airport to recycle plastic bottles and tins under the Re-turn scheme, which provides a facility for passengers to support the six charity partners by using these bins to return their empty bottles and cans. All the proceeds raised from the returned bottles and tins will be donated to the charity partners for 2025.
Ireland West Airport’s Charity of the Year Programme is an annual initiative that supports selected local and Irish charities through employee-led activities and donations from passengers travelling through the airport. Through the funds raised annually, the airport supports the vitally important work these fantastic charities do in the community and beyond.
Launching the charities of the year programme for 2025, Joe Gilmore, Managing Director, Ireland West Airport, said: “Last year the airport was delighted to raise a record amount of €46,500 for our six charity partners, ACT for Meningitis, BUMBLEance, Down Syndrome Ireland (Mayo Branch), Irish Red Cross, Mayo Mountain Rescue, and Western Care Association. The money raised yearly through our charity programme contributes positively to the fantastic work these charities do in our local communities. We are now in our ninth year of the programme, and we look forward to working with our six new charities and hopefully breaking a new fundraising record in 2025”.
Since its launch in 2017, the Ireland West Airport Staff Charity programme has raised almost €300,000 for Irish charities.
