Giving up something to help others has been a feature of Irish life for centuries. "Small sacrifices come from a big heart" as the proverb says. A coffee, a pint, a bag of sweets, what we sacrifice doesn't matter.
The cost of a coffee is a small amount to give but it all helps fund our charitable work around the country.
It always feels good to help others and with Coffee Sacrifice it's easy and fun.
Coffee Sacrifice is run by a registered charity and is fully audited to ensure your donations are used to save lives.
It's so easy to make this small sacrifice. Get a coffee, sit, relax and sacrifice the next one.
More of our young people are dying by suicide every day BUT WE CAN HELP PREVENT YOUTH SUICIDE TOGETHER
Since 2007 Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland has been providing youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention programmes and resources directly to schools and colleges across Ireland. Our ONLY funding has come from the Irish public as we have never been able to access state support. For 2023 we are trying a new fundraiser, the Coffee Sacrifice, where a small sacrifice (of a coffee or a cake) can be converted into funding for our vital suicide prevention work.
This year Coffee Sacrifices will be used to fund our Youth Crisis Counselling Service which funds priority access to local mental health professionals for young people at immediate risk of self-harm and suicide. just by selecting your sacrifical choice from the list below and making your coffee sacrifice
100% of your Sacrifice will go towards our life saving work in schools and colleges across the country as well as direct support to young people in immediate risk from mental health crises or suicidal ideation.
Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland provides specialist educational resources and training to schools and colleges around Ireland. We provide and fund in-class, face to face, training for students in mental health awareness and suicide prevention as well as online workshops via Zoom; provide teacher training; provide teacher resource packs which include an integrated structure of presentation, lesson plans and supporting student materials so appropriate teachers can provide our training programme directly to their own students. We also fund a Youth Crisis Counselling Service providing fast access to local mental health professionals for those young people at immediate risk of self-harm or suicide. Full details of our programme can be found at www.yspi.ie and at schools.yspi.ie
Giving up something to help others has been a feature of Irish life for centuries. "Small sacrifices come from a big heart" as the proverb says. A coffee, a pint, a bag of sweets, what we sacrifice doesn't matter.
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Charities spend a lot of time trying to find new and interesting ways of raising funds especially as government funding to many charities has been reduced so much over the last 6 years. In fact, Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland has never been able to access any state funds during our 15 years working to provide youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention programmes. Coffee Sacrifice came about in 2015 as a chance suggestion from a Secondary School student in Clontarf that he would gladly donate his coffee money if there was an easy way to do so.
Initially Coffee Sacrifice was just a text donation service run by LikeCharity but each year the popularity of the Coffee Sacrifice for World Suicide Prevention Day (10th September) has grown amongst the supporters and volunteers of Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland. So for 2023 we are upgrading our system to allow for online donations using Stripe as our payment gateway provider. Using Stripe allows us to provide an easy and secure way for our patrons to donate and keeps their payment information safe on Stripe's servers. The charity does not have access to any payment infomation using this system.
