DECEMBER 9th - 13th, 2024
Christmas Jumper Day
Christmas Jumper Day is back this year, and we’re asking you to save the date –during the week of 9th December. Wear your best or worst Christmas Jumper and help raise vital funds for sick children in Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin, Temple Street, Tallaght and Connolly.
Christmas Jumper Day
Christmas Jumper Day 2024 9th - 13th December
Plan your day
Christmas is coming soon, but we want you to start the celebrations early! That’s why we’re asking you to celebrate Christmas Jumper Day with us anytime during the week of 9th December.
If you’re in an education setting, you can get your classmates or students to wear a Christmas Jumper to school. Same with your workplace – have a Crass or Classy Christmas Jumper competition and see who wins. If you’re a member in a club, you can have a training session or a Christmas Blitz wearing Christmas Jumpers, maybe even turn up to play the opposition in Christmas Jumpers! Bridge players, this is the ideal fundraiser for you. Hold one of your club competitions in Christmas Jumpers and donate to help our sick children.
Your support will help raise needed funds in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals and urgent care centres.
It’s your chance to put on your favourite Christmas Jumper and do something really extraordinary for the 300,000 children who attend Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Temple Street, Tallaght and Connolly. It couldn’t be easier! Check out our steps below.
Steps to sign up
- Choose a day during the week of 9th December.
- Spread the word and get all of your friends, family and work colleagues to wear their fantastically funny Christmas Jumpers for the day.
- We’ll send you a party pack with all the things you need to host a festive event!
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- Fun-draise! Christmas Jumper Day is about having fun and raising vital funds for Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Temple Street, Tallaght and Connolly. There are a couple of ways people can support you….
- We’ll send you out a money box with your party pack to collect donations.
- Set up a fundraising page on Enthuse and share the link or QR code with others.
- Finally – enjoy yourself! You are doing a wonderful thing for all our little patients!
By celebrating Christmas Jumper Day, you will help raise vital funds for sick children. So this year, put a smile on the faces of those around you by wearing your favourite Christmas Jumpe
Meet Grace
In January this year, ten-year-old Grace went to school, then on to hip-hop dance class, did all her homework, made her own fruit salad before jumping in the car to go to gymnastics. She was all chat in the car about school and the places we would travel to if we won the lotto. Grace bounced into gymnastics chatting to her coaches about her upcoming competition.
Grace did her full warm-up and then went over to the beam. She was very confident on the beam, but her coach noticed she was having difficulty getting onto it. She sat down, started crying and holding her head. She then began to have a seizure. Grace had never had a seizure before.
Fortunately, her gymnastics coach is a doctor in St Vincent’s hospital. She recognised the signs of stroke at once and contacted the emergency services straightaway.
Ambulance crews arrived and stabilised Grace and brought her to Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin. Grace was still having seizures in A&E and a CT scan showed a bleed on the left side her brain. She was then transferred to Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street for emergency brain surgery.
