The Combined Services Third World Fund supported 40 projects worth some €247,000 last year.

The trade union-founded fund has been running since 1980, and receives voluntary contributions from workers in the civil service, An Post, eir, Vodafone and various state agencies. Since its foundation the fund has made more than 3,000 aid grants totalling €9,000,000.

It’s latest annual report provides details of the fund’s support for 40 projects totalling some €247,000 in 2021. The report says the funding was made possible by the voluntary work of the management and advisory committees “despite the severe constraints on their activities arising from Covid-19.”

You can read the full report HERE and you find out more about the Fund’s work HERE.