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The Covid-19 situation is changing on a daily basis.

The recommendation still stands that social distancing for all of us is the best way to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. No one knows yet how long this will be the case.

The Covid-19 situation is evolving and fluid. For some weeks now, management in Jigsaw has been meeting regularly to monitor the situation. This group, and all members of the Jigsaw team, are acutely aware of our duty of care to each other, the young people we serve and the national public health situation we find ourselves in.

As such, and following the government’s latest advice issued on Thursday, 12 March, 2020 we have made the decision to temporarily suspend all Jigsaw face-to-face services until 29 March. This difficult decision has been made in the interests of public health. All Jigsaw services and national office staff will continue to work from home to maintain our commitment to a ‘business as usual’ approach. We recognise this decision will have an impact on those we serve across our communities, but we believe it to be in the national interest.

This morning Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, paid a visit to one of our services in Temple Bar, Dublin.

As part of their three-day visit to Ireland, The Duke and Duchess heard about Jigsaw’s work and plans for improved youth mental health services.

Our partner Entertainment Enterprises Group and their brands including Starbucks, TGI Friday’s, Hard Rock Café, Dante’s Pizza, Mao and Leisureplex are hosting a donation drive this Saturday 29 February.

On this Leap Day, customers of all of these amazing outlets will have the option to add a donation to their bill to support Jigsaw. So we are calling on our supporters to please pop in, say hello and donate to support our vital work in creating an Ireland where every young person’s mental health is valued and supported.

We have been chosen as the exclusive partner of Entertainment Enterprises Group and their brands including Starbucks, TGI Fridays, Hard Rock Café, Dante’s Pizza, Mao and Leisureplex for the next three months.

The partnership kicks off today, Saturday 1 February and will run up to Thursday 30 April 2020. This exciting new partnership will involve a range of fundraising and awareness activities across all these fantastic outlets. Customers in each location will notice a Jigsaw counter top collection unit at the till giving them the opportunity to donate throughout the partnership.

On New Year’s Day 2020, eight members of the Engineer Section of the 60th Infantry Group currently deployed with UNDOF in Syria will run a collective 100km to raise awareness and funds for Jigsaw, the National Centre for Youth Mental Health.

Kitted out in full military battle dress, the group will each carry 35lbs of weight to represent the weight of living with mental health issues. Lead fundraiser Private Aaron Murray (28) from Finglas, Dublin said, “I decided to start this challenge to raise awareness of mental health and of the amazing work that Jigsaw does. I’ve personally struggled with my own mental health for most of my life, and unfortunately wasn’t aware of the services they provided. By doing this challenge, I hope we can help other young people who may be going through a difficult time so that they do not have to suffer like I once did.”

We are delighted to win at the Good Governance Awards last night, in the category for organisations with an annual turnover of between €5 million and €15 million.

This is the second time Jigsaw have received this prize in four years.

The Good Governance Awards seek to;

• Acknowledge, encourage and promote good governance practice in the area of annual reports and others areas of good governance practice.
• Support and encourage the nonprofit sector to use their annual reports and financial statements to showcase their embracement of and adherence to good governance.
• Provide practical examples to other organisations as to what an excellent or very good director’s report and financial statements look like.

We are happy to announce our new research and evaluation strategy which will span the next four years.

At Jigsaw, research and evaluation are a huge part of what we do, with many successes to date, including: Developing an electronic evaluation and case management system for use in Jigsaw services that is core to evaluating, monitoring and enhancing the evidence base for our work Publishing two national youth mental health surveys, most recently the second My World Survey, in partnership with UCD School of Psychology Disseminating our research and evaluation work nationally and internationally.