Authentically Alice “She’s too small to get cancer! It can’t be!” It was all that Alice’s mum could think. But the diagnosis for two-year-old Alice was clear: she would need to begin immediate chemotherapy for leukaemia. Through those relentless years, and in all the years since, your love has never left Alice’s side. Thank … Continued
Magical Moments You Make: First-Ever Tracheostomy Camp! Children can have narrowed or blocked upper airways for many reasons. And sometimes they need an artificial airway at the base of their neck, called a tracheostomy. These airways help them to breathe but need a lot of care and can isolate children and their families when … Continued
With gratitude for every gift and message you sent – Thank You for Your Christmas Kindness This past Christmas we asked if you could kindly sprinkle some Barretstown magic for a special camper called Aoife Lawless, who lost most of her vision due to a tumour on her optic nerve. Amazing supporters like you … Continued
Learn more about Robert, one of Barretstown’s hardworking hidden heroes, in Keepers of the Enchanted Forest You mightn’t ever imagine that when you so kindly give to help children with cancer and other serious illnesses come to camp for healing magic, you’re protecting nature and biodiversity in Ireland too. Robert Farrelly, one of our … Continued
Holland & Barrett, one of Europe’s leading health and wellness retailers, is today announcing Barretstown, as its charity partnership for 2025, a prominent children’s charity that provides free, life-changing therapeutic camps and programmes for children living with cancer and other illnesses, and their families. Through this partnership, Holland & Barrett has committed to … Continued
Do you have a child in your life that would LOVE to help Christmas FM officially Switch Christmas On for 2023? Christmas FM is searching for a very special little helper to visit the Christmas FM studio and officially turn on the radio station this year – Switching Christmas On for 2023 right across the country Competition … Continued
BARRETSTOWN MARKS MAJOR 100,000TH CAMPER MILESTONE WITH NATIONAL APPEAL TO RAISE €100,000 – Pledge Your Support Barretstown, the largest and most established organisation in Ireland providing therapeutic recreation camps and programmes to children affected by cancer and other serious illnesses recently welcomed its 100,000th camper April Banks (10) to its campus. April who is battling … Continued
Thank you so much to all the participants in our Golf Outing last week. A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors Suntory Beverage & Food and to the The K Club for hosting the Barretstown Golf Outing in the K Club on Friday 30th June. It was a fantastic day, and it was wonderful to see that spirits … Continued
We were delighted to welcome Éanna Ni Lamhna, President of the Tree Council of Ireland, to Barretstown this week, to mark National Tree Week in Ireland. Barretstown CEO Dee Ahearn welcomed Éanna to the Barretstown Enchanted Forest, which comprises of native Irish trees which are available to sponsor by the general public. The trees in … Continued
Barretstown volunteer Ashleigh Kiernan recently spoke to We Act, about her journey from camper to volunteer, and about just how rewarding it is to volunteer at Barretstown: “12 years ago, I started attending Barretstown as a camper, and last year I started to volunteer. It sounds unique, but so many people have such a positive … Continued
Christmas FM, the much-loved festive music station that switches Christmas on across Ireland every year, is delighted to announce that it raised €294,706 in 2022 for children’s charities Barnardos, Barretstown, Make-A-Wish Ireland and Community Foundation Ireland under it’s new ‘Magic of Christmas’ initiative. This figure will go a significant way towards Christmas FM’s aim to … Continued
Thursday, 12th January: The Applegreen Charitable Fund has today announced a three-year partnership with Barretstown, becoming one of the largest annual contributors to the children’s charity. This significant partnership, launched at the charity’s headquarters at Barretstown Castle, Ballymore Eustace in Co Kildare will see Applegreen commit to raising €1 million for the charity from 2023 … Continued
We want to say a massive thank you to all of the people who purchased tickets in the Barretstown Christmas Raffle. The raffle raised a total of €5,316, which will go straight to the Therapeutic Programmes that we run at Barretstown for children and families affected by serious childhood illness. We are immensely grateful also … Continued
It was an incredibly successful donation day for Christmas FM on December 20th, beating the original target of raising €150,000 for charity on the day, with donations from listeners coming to a final total of €161,486 being raised on behalf of their official charity partners, which are some of Ireland’s biggest children’s charities. By lunchtime, … Continued
Irish Rugby international, Tadhg Beirne took some time to bestow some pre match rituals to Rudolph and his team of reindeer in preparation for Christmas Eve and their big night with Santa – delivering presents worldwide. Ireland’s favourite oat brand Flahavan’s has teamed up with Barretstown to produce Magical Reindeer Food. Providing slow release oaty … Continued
Christmas FM has finally returned for the holiday season! This year, Christmas FM will support Barretstown alongside Barnardos, Make-A-Wish Ireland and The Community Foundation of Ireland as their official charity partners. This is part of a newly launched fundraising initiative named ‘The Magic of Christmas’, which will see Christmas FM supporting these charities for 3 … Continued
Barretstown is thrilled with the incredible response to Dermot Kennedy’s impromptu busk on the balcony of Bewley’s Grafton Street and his shout-out to his thousands of fans there to support Barretstown. Speaking about Dermot Kennedy’s amazing support, Dee Ahearn, CEO at Barretstown said “Dermot’s surprise gig was just incredible, the atmosphere was electric and has … Continued
Click Here to find out more about The Enchanted Forest. Step into the spirit of Christmas at a festive wonderland at Kildare Village. Christmas at Kildare Village was officially launched today by singer-songwriter, Loah. New Barretstown ambassador, radio and TV broadcaster Kathryn Thomas was there to launch The Enchanted Forest. MC Darren Kennedy introduced Kildare … Continued
We hosted another extremely successful camp here at Barretstown this weekend, thanks to the generous support of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, who funded this camp. Campers and their families took part in a range of Barretstown activities, from archery to rock climbing, whilst also enjoying the evening entertainment programmes developed by our Activity Leaders. Check out some … Continued
Barretstown is a unique facility in Ireland and the leading provider of therapeutic recreation programmes in Europe. A new redeveloped larger Med Shed is essential in our plans to expand to serve more campers each year and to start serving new illness groups, so that we can reach even more children and families living with … Continued