Dr. Cliona Hannon, CEO and Susan Brocklesby, KHF Grant Consultant, join grantees from the 2023 and 2024 ‘Children’s Promise’ Grants Programme at the Celebration Event. The ‘Children’s Promise’ Grants Programme aims to support community-based organisations working with young children and their families in disadvantaged areas in Ireland, who may not reach their potential due to...
KHF Annual Report for 2023 is now available to read or download here The report reflects our year of activities, in particular introducing the ‘Children’s Promise’ Grants Programme, our new programme which was launched in 2023. Other highlights include site visits to those projects awarded the grant in 2023, our work and engagement with smaller...
On Thursday 21 March, Minister Roderick O’Gorman launched the Parent and Toddler Group Grants Initiative 2024, part of the Government’s First 5 Strategy. Funding of €250,000 is allocated to Parent and Toddler Groups nationwide. The Minister has secured funding of €250,000, which will be allocated to Parent and Toddler Groups nationwide through local City/County Childcare Committees...
The 2024 Grants Programme is now closed for application and thank you to all who applied The ‘Children’s Promise’ Grants Programme, Katharine Howard Foundation (KHF), is a collaboration with Community Foundation Ireland (CFI), and aims to support organisations working with young children and their families in disadvantaged areas, who may not reach their potential due...
The Children’s Rights Alliance Report Card 2024 was launched this morning 20 February 2024. The Report Card series began in 2009 and documents Ireland’s treatment of children, grading the Government’s performance by an independent panel of experts. This is the fourth analysis of the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future, analysing 15 promises to children and...
Anew Support Services launched their 2022 Annual Report today in Carmichael House, N. Brunswick st., supported by The Ireland Funds, Tusla and Community Foundation Ireland and KHF, CEO, Dr. Cliona Hannon was in attendance. Dr. Maria Tempany and Sinead O’Moore were special guest speakers. Sinead is the host of the award winning ‘Stretch Marks’ podcast...
Our CEO, Dr Cliona Hannon was delighted to attend the launch of an innovative ‘Family Links’ project devised by the great Shelton Abbey team, focused on a children’s Hallowe’en camp at Shelton, to strengthen father-child bonds and enable mothers to take a well-earned rest. The project is supported by funding from the Katharine Howard Foundation,...
A Celebration of the Children’s Promise Grants Programme, 14 September 2023, The Richmond Education and Event Centre, Smithfield Traveller and migrant families, young people with autism and mothers with difficult pregnancies are among those benefitting from a ‘Children’s Promise Grants Programme’ which has been announced as part of End Child Poverty Week. Seventeen groups across...
Means-tested child benefit tier could take more than 40,000 children out of poverty ‘This report is the third from an ESRI research programme funded by Community Foundation Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland. It builds on the previous reports which have...
KHF Annual Report 2022 now available to read and download here. We would like to thank our partners for their contribution to the report & we look forward to continued collaborations supporting & improving the lives of children & families across Ireland.
