Become a County Sligo Great War Memorial Benefactor
Lest Sligo Forgets is in the process of raising €60,000 to complete the County Sligo Memorial Garden through three community benefactor schemes
County Sligo Great War Memorial /
Name Benefactors Scheme
Becoming a County Sligo Great War Memorial Name Benefactor is a uniquely personal opportunity for Sligo people, for families and communities to reach into the past and link with the names of those lost to the county in The Great War 1914 -1918.
First chose the person you wish to become Name Benefactor for. (Click HERE to view the Memorial Names page )
Click on the Become a Benefactor button below and follow the simple checkout steps
You will be asked to include your chosen name as you go through the checkout process.
If you leave this blank we will allocate a name to you.
If you wish to remain anonymous simply type anonymous in the Special Instructions box. (See Additional Information below for how Anonymous donations are acknowledged).
Our target is that each of individuals from County Sligo who died as a result of the Great War 1914-1918 will have a memorial benefactor, someone who will have stood in support of that persons memory, by contributing to the realisation of the Memorial Garden.
Your support as a Name Benefactor will be clearly acknowledged on our Benefactors page, alongside the memorial name allocated to you, and you will receive a cordial invitation to attend the opening reception of the Memorial Garden upon its completion.
All funds raised through this Name Benefactors Campaign will go entirely to the completion of The County Sligo Great War Memorial Garden.
County Sligo Great War Memorial
Town-land Benefactors Scheme
Becoming a County Sligo Great War Memorial Town-Land benefactor is a truly unique way for individuals, businesses and community groups to directly and proudly support the development of the County Sligo Great War memorial.
On our War Records page we list 51 Sligo county town-lands that lost volunteers during the war. A further 7 districts are specified inside the borough boundary. There is a final category for volunteers from Sligo whose town-land of origin remains undetermined .
We now invite interested individuals, community groups and businesses throughout Sligo County to help us realise the development of the memorial garden by becoming Town-Land Benefactors.
Should you decide to become a memorial benefactor through this measure you can simply specify the town-land / district of your choice in the “Town-Land Requested” section as you register your support.
Your generous contribution will be clearly acknowledged on our Benefactors Page under the Town-Land Benefactors Section.
Photos: Denis Farrel and John Phair
If you do not wish to be a Benefactor please support us by making a straight donation using this button.
Donations will be recognised on our Benefactors Page.
You can specify that your donation remains anonymous as you make your subscription.
Donations will be processed through our on-line Stripe secure payments system.
Become A County Sligo WW I Memorial Garden
Corporate Benefactor
We are seeking Memorial Corporate Benefactors who will contribute directly to our matching finance requirement and help LSF complete the World War I Memorial Garden in 2019.
Corporate Benefactors will generally be commercial and community concerns. They will by dynamically and intimately associated with this community based campaign.
Corporate Benefactors will be prominently acknowledged via Active Web Links on the Benefactors Page on this site site.
Corporate Benefactor will be acknowledged through a dedicated Blog Post on this site which will include support presentation photographs and other information surrounding your support. LSF Blogs are prominently shared on all our social media platforms.
Corporate Benefactors will each be allocated sole sponsorship of a page on this website.
Corporate Benefactors will be acknowledged on all printed / promotional material created by LSF during the campaign to realise the Memorial Garden.
Corporate Benefactor Logo’s will be included on email updates / news campaigns emanating from this campaign.
Corporate Benefactors will be prominently and appropriately acknowledged on the Social Media feeds the campaign runs.
Corporate Benefactors will receive official invitations to all key events surrounding the Memorial Campaign, including the official opening of the Memorial Garden in November 2019.
Photo Terence Rooney (KIA 21/3/1918) with Mary Jane & Baby Michael,
Through the Memorial Name Benefactor option you have the opportunity to support the inscription of one of the 610 names which will go on the memorial stone slabs. This will be our main fundraising platform. We hope that the opportunity to personally support the inscription of a name on the wall will resonate across the community and be seen as a metaphor for bringing all those lost to Sligo in the Great War back home to a place of community commemoration.
You can also become a Memorial Town-Land Benefactor. This measure allows businesses and community groups and individuals to become the benefactor of one of the 59 geographic areas that will be designated on the memorial monument.
The Memorial Corporate/Business Benefactor option allows businesses in County Sligo and around the world to make meaningful one-off contribution to the memorial capital development costs.
It is important to note that prominent and fitting acknowledgement of all our memorial Garden benefactors will take place on this website, in publications and at public events concerned with the campaign.
However in order to preserve the dignity, integrity and serenity of the memorial Garden such acknowledgements cannot feature at the actual memorial site.
€60,000 is our Match Funding Requirement for capital contributions being made by our memorial partners as follows:
Sligo County Council: Invaluable in-kind support including Site Provision at Sligo Regional Park, Groundwork, Landscaping, Future public amenity maintenance.
Peace 4 / LCDC: €40,000 (€28,000 Capital / €12,000 Programme for Peace and Reconciliation Community events including 2018 Armistice Day anniversary commemoration.
British Legion €10,000: The British Legion funding covers inscription costs.