Tesco extends Temple Street fundraising

Tesco colleagues Jamie Hynes, Ellen Rafter and Deirdre Keating are pictured at Temple Street alongside Denise Fitzgerald, chief executive, Temple Street Foundation and Christine Heffernan, corporate affairs director Pic: Chris Bellew

Tesco Ireland has extended its partnership with Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, with the aim of raising an additional €2 million.

The partnership was first launched in October 2014 as a two-year deal, but now it will become a five-year partnership. Tesco has raised more than €3 million since 2014 to support Temple Street Children’s University Hospital in purchasing life-saving equipment for the hospital’s theatres, wards, laboratories and intensive care unit.

Now it ...