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About Galway Simon Community

Galway Simon Community began providing services in the city in 1979 & in the intervening years has provided an emergency shelter, a soup run, supported housing projects, a resettlement project and a range of move on accommodation options for people who have been homeless or at risk of being homeless.
 
 
Working in the Community

Galway Simon Community currently operates ten housing projects which offer a range of supported accommodation options with varying degrees of independence, a resettlement service and a Day Centre incorporating Family Services and an Out of Hours placement service. In addition, the Community owns or has allocation rights to an increasing number of apartments.

Some projects are 'homes for life' while others are designed for people who wish to remain for a while and then move on.

In addition to service provision, Galway Simon Community is concerned with advancing the rights of people who are homeless and works with them in an advocacy role. We believe that campaigning for changes in social attitudes and social policy to be a necessary and complementary part of our work.


Galway Simon
Board of Management
Daphne Briand President
Deirdre Fahy
Karen Golden
Marie Harrington
Derek Joyce
Seamus Kilbane
Margaret Linehan
Jonathan Lydon
Paul Stapleton
The Simon Communities of Ireland have been providing services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness since 1969. The first shelter was opened in Dublin in that year following on from an initiative which had begun in London in 1963. Today there are a total of eight communities working in Galway, Cork, Dublin, Dundalk, the South East, the Midlands, the North West and the Mid West. Each local community is independent and autonomous but collectively form a federation called the Simon Communities of Ireland which provides a structure for working towards national goals.