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last updated 02/09/10

Care Alliance Ireland – About Us

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 will achieve this by supporting organisations in their direct work with Family Carers through the provision of information, research, the sharing of resources and opportunities for collaboration.

There are in the region of 274,000 Family Carers in the Republic of Ireland and we work with our 71 member organisations to support them in their work. Our membership includes all the carers organisations and virtually all the condition specific organisations currently providing services to many of Ireland’s Family Carers. A number of statutory groups are associate members.

What we do.

We help organisations better support Family Carers. We do this by providing them with opportunities to work together through various projects including National Carers Week,a multi-agency and multi disciplinary Family Carer Research Group and joint policy submissions. We act as an information distribution channel on Family Carer issues. We actively encourage collaboration in all our work. We bring 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.

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 Dun Laoire 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, Dr. P Lane, M Lynch, Dr G McCaffrey, R Webster. Patron: Dr. Maeve Hillery

Company Secretary/Executive Director; Liam O’Sullivan

Independently Audited Accounts available to view at: http://www.carealliance.ie/publications.php

For an up to date list of Member Organisations see ; http://www.carealliance.ie/membership.php

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

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