Charity shop volunteers celebrate Tidy Towns Limerick victory

VOLUNTEERS at a city centre charity shop are celebrating after winning an annual award following a public vote.

Adapt charity shop, based at Parnell Street, won the 2024 Limerick City Tidy Towns award.

The judges were impressed at the effort the shop staff went to keep their signage and shop front clean and fresh.

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Credit was also given to the fact the neighbouring laneway is kept free from litter.

Off the back of this, the shop won the bi-monthly Limerick City Tidy Towns award all the way back at the start of last year. It meant it was in the running for the overall annual prize.

Limerick City Tidy Towns volunteers launched an online vote.

And the charity shop triumphed.

Shop manager Frances Quinn was delighted.

“It’s wonderful for the shop and for Adapt services. It promotes the shop and hopefully it will bring in customers and donators.

For Adapt, it promotes our services and the vital services we provide to women and children,” she said.

A vital charity, Adapt provides around-the-clock refuge and support for women survivors of domestic abuse and their children.

The proceeds of every purchase made from the shop in Parnell Street goes towards supporting its services.

Adapt was based in Sarsfield Street, but moved across the city three years ago.

“It’s a really good street. We get a lot of local support. As we are close to the railway station, people coming in and out on buses and trains call into us,” Frances added.

Helen O’Donnell, Limerick City Tidy Towns, was delighted Adapt won the public vote, given the fact she has supported it in the past.

“It’s an organisation very close to my heart,” she said.

Limerick City Tidy Towns volunteers meet to do regular clean-ups of the city centre on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings.