Ireland West Airport announces charity partners for 2024

Ireland West Airport is delighted to announce that ACT for Meningitis, BUMBLEance, Down Syndrome Ireland (Mayo Branch), Irish Red Cross, Mayo Mountain Rescue, and Western Care Association have been selected by airport staff as their charity partners for 2024.

Several events will take place during the year which will engage passengers and staff with the aim of raising as much money as possible for our charity partners.

The airport’s managing director, Joe Gilmore, called the charity programme ‘an integral part of the airport’s annual activity’ and said the vital role the communities plays in the airport’s success is ‘recgonised’.

The headline event will once again be the annual Portwest five kilometre fun run which will take place on the runway at Ireland West Airport in September. 

Launching the charities of the year programme for 2024, Joe Gilmore, Managing Director at Ireland West Airport said he was ‘delighted’ with last year’s achievements.

The airport raised €40,000 for their 2023 charities, Breakthrough Cancer Research, Diabetes Ireland, The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, The Cancer Fund for Children, The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and the Mayo Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 

“The money raised will hopefully make a positive contribution to the fantastic work these charities do in our local communities” added Mr Gilmore.

Since its launch in 2017 the Ireland West Airport Staff Charity programme has raised almost €250,000 for Irish charities.

“I am very proud of the continued support and commitment of our staff in raising significant money for their nominated charities every year, and we look forward to another successful year working with our six new charities in 2024,” he concluded.