Cork Life Centre

We often celebrate our wonderful on this page for the way they show up for us throughout the year and we are delighted to showcase their generosity publicly.

Our friends at Red Balloon are our go-to supplier for our and we love to support a local company.

Every now and then, though, someone comes along and gives a really meaningful gift - silently.

Today, Red Balloon were the bearers of a huge anonymous gift from one of their clients. Our fab for tonight are a donation. We are so . We don't know who you are but we are so grateful for your kindness and for thinking of us in this way. The arrangements are and they will be appreciated by everyone tonight.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. 🎈🎈🎈🩷🩷🩷

As usual, the last day madness descended on the Centre and we had a fab time doing absolutely zero work. Between the final of the (an absolute cliff-hanger!!), , the and the now-mandatory visit of the , we closed out the academic year in style with loads of fun and laughter.
We’ll see almost everyone tonight at our but for those who can’t make that, we’ll see you all in September (unless, of course, you’re a Junior or Leaving Cert student!!).
Well done to the eventual Pool Tournament Bisan and Noel and the losing finalists, Claire and Brenna; a massive ShoutOut to Damien, our , for making it all happpen. 👊
Huge Thanks to Craig, our former Deputy Director, for joining us today and creating a , and piece of prose for our ceremony. 🥰
Birthday Thursday had to last for a while so we celebrated three month’s worth of today;
MAY : Dylan, Alex, Belle, Alisha, Cathy, David, Emily, MargR, MargaretM, ClaireL and Kevin
JUNE : Shane, Luke, Leah, Abigail and Charles.
JULY : Kayla, Leo, Jack, Levi, Daniel and Peter.
Now it's just down to those of us left in the house to get the Blarney Street CBS ready for tonight!!!!

Now that we’re finally caught up, we can focus on what’s happening tomorrow.
We’re finishing up classes with our usual last day activities and what is possibly the highlight of our year, our . We are privileged to have several of our supporters and friends attending, as well as staff, families and of course, our amazing young people.
We are also looking forward to announcing the awardee of the annual as well as the awardee of a new scholarship, supported by Limited.

Our awesome friends at Sailing Into Wellness sourced funding to take the beautiful and historic out for an overnight voyage and we were honoured to be asked to provide the crew!! We sent six young people and two staff away on an amazing trip last week. Huge thanks to our friends in Kinsale for including us on such an awesome adventure which created opportunities for through , and as crew of the AKIlen. These memories will last a lifetime for everyone who took part.

On 1st May our hardworking 6th Years enjoyed a well-deserved break from their lessons to take a trip to Trinity College Dublin to enjoy a guided tour of the beautiful campus. They also visited the magnificent and the wondrous . It was a fantastic day which will live long in the memory.
ShoutOut and big thanks to Drew in for organising and facilitating such a memorable outing for our young people.

Yes, we did have a every month – celebrating all our young people AND staff who had birthdays so far this year.
Takes a deep breath …
JANUARY : Tara, Will and Trevor
FEBRUARY : Callum, Lewis, Caoimhe, Joe, Joseph and Robyn
MARCH : Allana, Cameron, Eoghan, Adam, Bryan, David, Kieran, Lucy, Sarah and Trish
APRIL : Kieran, Cate, Damien, Emily and Thomas

Sailing Into Wellness are another great friend of the Centre. This year, they once more took young people out in and over March and April. We also changed it up this year with some of our young woodworkers going down to the boatyard in Kilmacsimon to work on the beautiful (more on that later).

We are so lucky to have so many who support us through their various programmes. One reliable organisation over the last few years has been Amazon.com, who provide the food for our annual but who also show up during the year with much-needed funding to take care of the small details that make such a big difference in the day-to-day of life here. It was great to welcome a team from the office to give them some insight into the long-lasting power of their consistent support.

Even can be fun! No, seriously. Our crew were blessed with the weather for the 6th Year Geography field trip to Myrtleville to investigate the processes of coastal erosion.