Our Charities

Nourish supports a number of causes we care about, both in Ireland and abroad. You can read more about our chosen charities and sustainable organisations below.

Each year, we donate 20c for every Nourish branded supplement purchased in our stores to causes we care about. Through this initiative, this year (2024) we have donated €5,500 to Focus Ireland's Sponsor a Star campaign.

Everyone has a right to a place they can call home. 87c of every euro Focus Ireland receives is spent directly on services to combat and prevent homelessness. 

Thanks to our customers' support of this initiative, over the last seven years we have donated over €15,000 to support Focus Ireland and other charities helping to tackle homelessness, including the Dublin Simon Community and the Peter McVerry Trust.

On behalf of our staff and customers, in March 2022 we made a €5,000 donation to the Irish Red Cross Ukraine Appeal.

This donation helped to support the immediate humanitarian response in Ukraine and help those affected by the needless conflict to get food, medicine, shelter and water.

We have also supported UNICEF Ireland in 2021 with a donation of €4,500. This helped to ensure through their Give a Vaccine, Get a Vaccine campaign.  This year in 2024 we donated €3,000 to their Children of Gaza campaign. This is to help stop the spread of disease, feed starving families and save lives.

In April 2023 we began partnering with Birdwatch Ireland to highlight the dwindling bird populations across the country. From every Viridian Hero Supplement sold at Nourish, we made a donation to Birdwatch Ireland. Between 2023 and 2024, we have donated over €2,600 to them. We also designed our delivery truck for Nourish deliveries and transfers across Dublin - pictured here. 

63% of Ireland’s bird species are currently threatened with extinction. Birdwatch Ireland is a voluntary conservation organisation devoted to the conservation and protection of wild birds and their habitats in Ireland. 

Support Ireland’s Birds. Support Birdwatch Ireland.

Each year, our teams across Ireland take part in Christmas Jumper Day to raise funds for different charities each year.

In 2021 and 2022, our store and head office teams swapped their work wardrobe for something festive to raise €500 to support Focus Ireland and those experiencing homelessness in Ireland. This year in 2024, we will be raising money for The Children's Health Foundation.

The event will help to raise funds that go towards vital life-saving equipment for the wards, theatres, departments and ICU in our children’s hospitals.

Like many others in 2020, we took to the sea during lockdown. With sea swimming in mind, we were thrilled to support the publication of A Little Book of Swimming Happiness in aid of the RNLI in Ireland. 

This (now sold out) Irish collection of personal swimming stories, poems and photographs was created and published by Catherine Mulcahy.

Selling for €15 inside a number of book shops, cafes and food stores across Dublin, 100% of proceeds went directly to the RNLI, raising over €10,000. Since November 2023 we have sold over 220 copies, through our standalone stores as well as our website.

The RNLI are a charity that saves lives at sea. They do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and flood rescue.

Zamda is a registered charity dedicated to providing direct and effective aid to a number of projects in and around the city of Kabwe in Zambia.

The main initiative of Zamda is supporting “Sables” which is a centre for Kabwe’s street children; the most vulnerable children in Kabwe. It offers food, clothing, medical care, emergency overnight accommodation, counselling, education and vocational training for over one hundred and fifty orphaned and vulnerable children.

We began our support in 2016, and since then with the help of Zamda, we have funded the creation of a Nourish Kitchen at Sables. This kitchen has been up and running since May 2017, and was built with the purpose of keeping vulnerable children off the streets to teach them a trade they can take anywhere - cooking. This year in 2024, we have donated €3,000 towards their educational unit.

 Find out more about Zamda's work here. 

Nourish have been supporters of Gortbrack Organic Farm and their Organic School Gardens Project for many years. Based in Co. Kerry, Gortbrack is an award winning hub for environmental education, organic food training, and eco-landscaping.

Nourish have been supporters of the activities associated with Gortbrack Organic Farm for many years as we strongly believe in the principles of biodiversity through organic farming and production. 

Through its sister organisation KEEP (Kerry Earth Education Project), Gortbrack has helped develop school gardens across Ireland, introducing thousands of children to planting and growing. 

In collaboration with the Irish Seed Savers Association, KEEP recently published the 2nd edition of The Year Round Organic School Garden, a practical guide for teachers to create and use organic school gardens as educational tools. This edition was supported by the Patagonia Environmental Grants Fund and co-sponsored by Nourish and Independent Irish Health Foods Ltd.

 Buy this publication online from the Irish Seed Savers Association. 

We have donated over €2,000 directly to Women's Aid over the past three years. Women’s Aid is a national, feminist organisation working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse since 1974. 

Other charities we have supported: Dogs Trust, St. Francis' Hospice and The Cavan Centre.