Pharmacy Benevolent Fund Limited
www.pbf.ie
November 2012
Dear Colleague,
The Benevolent Fund wants your help to assist pharmacists in need. By taking part in our 2013
Annual Confined Draw, you could win €4,000 while supporting current and former colleagues and
their families who are experiencing difficult times and need our help.
Our social worker, Mary Dowd, makes direct contact with those who are in need. Along with our
Case Committee, she works to give them a dignity and quality of life. This ranges from ongoing
financial support or one-off help with a fill of heating oil or large household repair to simply being a
friendly face calling to the door or providing advice on social welfare entitlements.
There are two draws with five prizes per draw (€4,000, €3,000, €1,000 and €500 x 2). To take part, all
you have to do is send us a single subscription of €250 by standing order, cheque, postal or money
order. Whilst enjoying a little flutter, you will be helping a lot.
The Draw is a most important source of income for the Benevolent Fund. Income is also raised
through a Golf Classic, a contribution from the Helix Healthcare Pharmacist Awards, donations and
direct contributions from events such as the raffle at the IPU National Pharmacy Conference Dinner
and an RCSI Treasure Hunt for staff and students during the summer. Others ways to help including
benefiting the Benevolent Fund in your will or to donating an honorarium.
Over the past five years the Benevolent Fund has dispersed over €500,000. In 2011 we raised
approximately €100,000. While this was slightly more than was spent, the demand for financial
support from the Fund has increased again this year and it is vital that we continue to generate
sufficient funds to meet the demand for help.
Thanks are due to all who assist with the Benevolent Fund, our social worker Mary Dowd and all
who made donations or who participated in the Golf Classic, Confined Draw or other fundraising
events in the past year. I want to particularly thank two pharmacists for their amazing fundraising
efforts for the Fund this year, namely Keith O’Hourihane who ran a Pharmacy Race Night in
September and Jo Crowley for giving us half the proceeds of his epic fundraising walk of the Camino
de Santiago in Spain.
We depend on you to inform us of people who might need our help. If you know of a colleague or
someone from the wider area of our profession who needs help, call the PSI or the IPU or any of us
who are involved in the Fund. Information is handled in strict confidence.
Please do join our Annual Confined Draw today and make a difference to the lives of colleagues in
need. We are always looking for new volunteers would be delighted to welcome on board anyone
who would like to get involved in the work of the Fund, even on a very small scale.
Yours sincerely,
Aisling Reast MPSI
President
Registered in Ireland No. 507060. Registered Office Block A, 10-12 Hogan Place, Dublin 2. Revenue Charity No. 5467
Directors J Bourke, L Clarke, R Collis, V Cronin, A Frankish, R Gubbins, D Hickey, D O’Donovan, A Reast, C Roche
Pharmacy Benevolent Fund
CONFINED DRAW 2013
** TWO DRAWS DURING THE YEAR **
Draws will be held in June and September.
Support a very worthy cause and you could win one of our many prizes!
*PRIZE FUND €18,000 – €9,000 PER DRAW – 10 PRIZES IN ALL*
Draw Prizes:
1st: €4,000
4th: €500
2nd: €3,000
5th: €500
3rd: €1,000
Subscription: €250
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To enter, please return this form with payment or standard order mandate*
as soon as possible to:
Pharmacy Benevolent Fund Draw, c/o 3 Rossmore Avenue, Dublin 6W.
Name:
_________________________________
Reg. No: __________________________
Address:
___________________________________________________________________________
Signature:
_________________________________
Date: ________________________
E-mail address for acknowledgment: _________________________________________________________
Please tick if no acknowledgment required:
Please tick if you would like e-mail updates of how your donation is being spent:
All donations gratefully accepted
Please make cheques payable to “Pharmacy Benevolent Fund Ltd”
*A standing order mandate is available to download at www.pbf.ie
We regret that there are no facilities to accept payment by credit card, debit card or direct debit.