The funds raised through this challange, will go on to support the Sure Steps Counselling Service, in Dublin Simon Community. 

About Sure Steps

The Sure Steps Counselling Service was established in spring of 2012. Since then we have become a specialised trauma informed counselling and psychotherapeutic service providing emotional support to clients with a wide variety of presenting issues. Sure Steps Counselling and Psychotherapy prides itself as being the leader of the only homeless specific counselling service in Ireland!

The service offers:

• Weekly 1 to 1 counselling 
• 10 Weekly counselling drop in clinics in both Dublin Simon Treatment Services and Short Term Accommodation Centres delivering counsellor lead emotional wellbeing group programmes. Client’s may never have experienced counselling and this service introduces them to a safe informal confidential space where they can learn about counselling and indeed begin to open a dialogue with a counsellor in a non-committal fashion that allows them to begin building a therapeutic relationship.
• We operate a Suicide Prevention Service for clients presenting with suicidal and self-harming behaviours across Dublin Simon Community Services and Services operated by Peter McVerry Trust, Crosscare, DePaul Ireland, and Merchant’s Quay Ireland.

Here is also a bit about our team!

Portobello ladies footballers have gathered an amazing team from the four corners of Ireland and with them each member has brought the best from their local clubs and added it to our team in Portobello. We have players from Cork, Kerry, Wexford, Longford, Laois, Westmeath, Sligo, Monaghan, Tyrone, Antrim, and many more as well as some from the US, Spain, Brazil and Poland. All of our members love the social aspect of the team as well as the enthusiasm and drive we have to win on the field.

Why join our team?

We work hard to make our way up the tables each year but we also have a great time while we're doing it. We plan nights out, days away, trips abroad, the works!

The majority of our team have gotten back into GAA after moving to Dublin from their home counties. It's very easy to settle yourself into Portobello and once you've joined you'll look forward to coming back to a new season and a new group of players year after year.