Wicklow Hospice launches 2024 Dip in the Nip
Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services (OLH&CS), Wicklow, is daring the brave men of Wicklow and surrounds to bare all and take part in its male-only Dip in the Nip, on the morning of Sunday 13th October 2024 on Greystones South Beach, Wicklow. The event is being supported again by offshore renewable energy project, Codling Wind Park.
Wicklow Hospice hopes that men will dare to bare in support of hospice care by lining up on the Greystone South Beach. By taking part and aiming to raise at least €200, our fearless heroes, groups, clubs and workplace colleagues will be raising vital funds to help us continue to provide high levels of specialist care and comfort for patients and their families.
On dip day, men and their supporters can expect live music on the beach on arrival before those brave dippers head to a more secluded section of the shoreline. With a fearsome roar the group will join together for Wicklow Hospice and run headlong into the sea! After their dip, each participant will be served a welcome hot refreshment on the beach, and everyone goes home with a goody bag including an exclusive ‘Dip in the Nip’ gift.
Codling Wind Park Project Director, Scott Sutherland, said: “The Codling team are proud to be strong supporters of Wicklow Hospice and the incredible work they do with families across the county.”
“As well as being an important fundraiser for the Hospice and the work they do, Dip in the Nip is a really fun, community event. We are really looking forward to supporting Dip in the Nip and some of us will be participating too!”, he added.
Eleanor Flew, Director of Fundraising & Communications at OLH&CS said: “We are delighted to continue our important partnership with Codling Wind Park as they sponsor Dip in the Nip. Community fundraising played a vital role in ensuring we were able to open the doors of Wicklow Hospice in 2020, the first dedicated palliative care facility in Wicklow.”
“Fundraising and community support continue to be the life blood of our work at Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services, Wicklow, whether that’s in our in-patient facility which cared for 207 inpatients last year or our Community Palliative Care Team, which made 2,037 visits to people’s homes. Initiatives like Dip in the Nip help ensure the continued provision and development of our services, so we urge the people of Wicklow and surrounds to come out and support, whether that be through participation or sponsoring one of the brave participants”, she added.
This year’s event takes place on the morning of Sunday 13th October 2024. The women of Wicklow are also asked to show their support by encouraging the men in their lives to sign up and supporting their fearless friends or family taking part.
For more information and to register, please go to: www.olh.ie/dip-in-the-nip/
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About Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services
Established in 1879 Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services is a 215-bed facility that provides specialist care for those with a wide range of needs from rehabilitation to end-of-life care. Just over 600 staff work with residents, patients and their families at a most difficult time in their lives. Focusing on the person, and not the condition, care is provided on-site in its facilities in Harold’s Cross, Blackrock and Wicklow, as well as in people’s own homes across south Dublin and Wicklow, a catchment area of over a million people.
Wicklow Hospice, operated by Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services, welcomed its first in-patients in December 2020 and is the first facility to provide specialist palliative care services for patients and their families in Wicklow. The state-of-the-art purpose-built hospice provides 15 in-patient public beds and a base for the Wicklow Specialist Community Palliative Care team. It’s opening marked the culmination of over ten years of incredible fundraising by the Wicklow Hospice Foundation and local community. OLH&CS depends heavily on fundraised income and needs to raise €5.5m annually to support patients and families across its 3 sites.
About Codling Wind Park
Codling Wind Park is a proposed offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, approximately 13-22 kilometres off the County Wicklow coast, between Greystones and Wicklow Town.
Codling Wind Park is a proposed offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, approximately 13-22 kilometres off Greystones and Wicklow Towns on the Wicklow Coast. Codling Wind Park is a 50:50 joint venture between EDF Renewables and Fred. Olsen Seawind. With an expected capacity of 1,300 megawatts (MW), it has the potential to supply over one million Irish homes with low carbon, locally produced, low-cost electricity, and to save 1.7 million tonnes of carbon emissions every year.
