Care Alliance Ireland is the National Network of Voluntary Organisations supporting Family Carers.

Our vision is that the role of Family Carers is fully recognised and valued by society in Ireland.

We exist to enhance the quality of life for Family Carers. We achieve this by supporting our member organisations in their direct work with Family Carers through the provision of information, developing research and policy in the field, sharing resources, and instigating opportunities for collaboration.

There are approximately 274,000 Family Carers in the Republic of Ireland. Family Carer support is provided by a number of organisations, including those dedicated solely to carer support and others who support carers as part of their response to individuals with specific conditions. We work with our 72 member organisations and other agencies to support them in their work with Family Carers

Our legitimacy derives from our membership base which includes all the carer organisations and virtually all the disease/disability-specific organisations currently providing services to Ireland’s Family Carers. Our membership is comprised of both large and small, regional and national organisations. We also have a number of HSE regions which are associate members and which receive our support.

What we do

We work with organisations to provide better information and supports to Family Carers. We provide them with opportunities to collaborate on initiatives including National Carers Week, a multi-agency and multi-disciplinary Family Carer Research Group, and joint policy submissions. We act as a distribution channel for information on Family Carer issues. We actively encourage collaboration in all our projects. We provide cohesion to those organisations working to support Family Carers. We commission relevant research that supports focussed and quality interventions in the lives of Family Carers.

By focussing on these discrete functions (research, policy, information, collaborative ventures,) we enable more of our member’s funds to go directly to coal face services.

Examples of our impact include

  • An Annual National Carers Week every June that involves thousands of Family Carers.
  • Three primary research projects delivered and presented internationally that are informing quality health and social care interventions for Family Carers.
  • Initiate multiagency collaboration in collating a directory of services for Family Carers in the Dun Laoire Rathdown/South Dublin area making such services more readily known and availed of.

Governance Details

We are a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital, registered in Dublin, Ireland, with registered office at Coleraine House, Coleraine Street, Dublin 7

www.carealliance.ie Telephone: (01) 8747776 E-mail; info@carealliance.ie

Registered Company No: 461315 CHY No: 14644

Board of Directors; G Clarke, C Conway, J Day, A Dooley, Dr. G Fennell, F Goodwin, A Kavanagh, C Keogh, N Kirrane, Dr. P Lane, M Lynch, D Maguire, Dr G McCaffrey, K O'Boyle, R Webster. Patron: Dr. Maeve Hillery

Company Secretary/Executive Director; Liam O’Sullivan

Independently Audited Accounts available to view at: Publications

For an up to date list of Member Organisations see ; Membership

Care Alliance Ireland Ltd Articles of Association (.pdf 64kb)

Care Alliance Ireland Ltd Memorandum of Association (.pdf 36kb)