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Ireland and Lions rugby legend Paul O’Connell, Ieve with her daughter Gabriella Kokorevica, Yvonne Oyedeji, Thomond Community College and Rory Vaughan, Courtenay NS, Newcastle West at Northern Trust.

Paul O’Connell meets our Limerick grantees

On Friday 29 September 2017, Paul O’Connell met with our grantees and partners in Limerick and was interested to learn more about the work they are doing.

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Northern Trust partners with basis.point for Limerick charities launch

basis.point would like to say a special thanks to our friends at Northern Trust, who in October 2017 entered a Partner Programme with us to support the launch of three of our grantee charities in Limerick.

Dylan McCormac, Garryowen with Ireland and Lions rugby legend Paul O’Connell at Northern Trust.

basis.point in the news

Paul O’Connell’s launch of our new funding programme was covered recently in a short but very positive article in the Irish Times.

Our Partner Charities

Disbursements Update

To date over €710,000 raised from basis.point patrons has been committed to educational projects in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.

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Irish Funds Conference 2017

We’d like to say a huge thank you to all at Irish Funds for kindly allowing us to participate in this year’s Irish Funds conference on Thursday 25 May 2017.

Independent Evaluation

Results of independent evaluation of basis.point grants to Archways and ELI

The results of the independent evaluation by Genio of the basis.point first two grants are extremely positive.

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“Dough-nation” – Funds Congress kindly donates to basis.point

We’d like to say a special thanks to our friends at Dechert LLP and Carne Global Financial Services, who recently supported us in a very innovative way.

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Basis.point an official charity of Irish Funds

Irish Funds has appointed basis.point as one of it’s official charities and actively supports basis.point through regular donations and other non-financial support.

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Presentation to new patrons in Boston October 2016

We presented two new patrons John Hancock and Manulife Asset Management with their patron certificates on a recent visit to their offices in Boston.

Cathal Lavelle Trophy Winners State Street team and Declan O'Sullivan

2016 basis.point Corporate Challenge the best to date

The basis.point Corporate Challenge has quickly established itself as one of the main social events for the Irish funds industry with the fourth annual staging held in Milltown Golf Club featuring over 160 playing golf and attending the evening reception and dinner.

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