Sue Ryder Shop

Kelton Row
Portlaoise
Co. Laois

The Sue Ryder shop always welcomes donations of saleable good quality clothes, household appliances, jewellery, cosmetics, books, toys, bed liner, and furniture. Bargains always in stock!!!

Opening hours
Mon- Sat 10am-5pm
Telephone 0502 72506

Please do not leave donations when shop is closed.

The shop aims to keep up a high standard of appearance and we have four broad functions:

1. To raise greatly needed funds for the Foundation's work
2. To make better known the needs of the sick and handicapped in Ireland and overseas
3. To bring people together from all walks of life
4. To serve the community

Lady Ryder of Warsaw C.M.G., O.B.E.

Sue Ryder grew up under the particular influence of her Mother, whose deep concern for people in need expressed itself in a commitment to voluntary social work. It was this example of unassuming practical help, coupled with happiness and a sense of humour, which Sue Ryder was determined to emulate.

During the Second World War, Sue Ryder served with the Special Operations Executive [S.O.E.] which was set up by the British Government in 1940 to co-ordinate the activities of the Resistance Organisations in German-occupied Europe. Here she was brought into daily contact with men and women of extraordinary courage and determination, and learned at first hand the extent of the human suffering which the war had inflicted on Europe.

The experience launched her, immediately after the war was won, into relief work among the millions of sick, homeless and destitute people all over the Continent. Later her concern for those in need took her to other parts of the world where, too, the enemies were poverty and disease and the suffering was just as real.

The Sue Ryder Foundation is a living memorial to the victims and opponents of tyranny. It is not a memorial to keep open old wounds, but rather to redress injustices old and new. It is a living memorial in the sense that it serves an active progressive purpose - the relief of suffering,physical and psychological, whatever it's cause and whenever the opportunity to abate it may be found.

From the beginning, Sue Ryder's work has been based on faith and carried out with the minimum of expense and administration.

The Foundation is an international body and recognises no boundaries of age, race or religion.