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Barretstown Foundation USA was founded in 2018 to allow children living with serious illnesses in the U.S.

to benefit from the life-changing programs at Barretstown Camp in Ireland.

12/24/2025

Happiest of holidays from Barretstown Foundation!

Thanks for all your support this year, and wishing you and your loved ones a happy holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous new year.

See you in 2026!

12/19/2025

As we close out 2025, please consider supporting Barretstown Foundation and help us send more children from the U.S. to Barretstown Camp in Ireland next year.

For seriously ill children, the chance to travel to Barretstown is a life-changing experience. After a long period of illness and treatment, Barretstown gives children the chance to have fun and just be a kid again.

Help us spread the magic of Barretstown to more families in the United States, and make a gift today!

Donate here: https://give.classy.org/BarretstownUS

12/17/2025

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Barretstown Foundation Holiday Party at Bryant Park - what a lovely afternoon!

Check out the photos here: https://lnkd.in/ew5Yb2Av

Your support helps children rebuild their confidence and rediscover the joy of being a child after the challenges of illness and treatment. Thank you for spreading the magic of Barretstown this holiday season.

Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!

10/07/2025

Delighted to share the photos from last week’s sold-out Barretstown Business Breakfast last week - what a fantastic morning!

Check out the photos here: https://shorturl.at/nfHKZ

Thank you to everyone who joined us to bring the magic of Barretstown to children living with serious illness here in the United States. Through our therapeutic recreation programs in Ireland, Barretstown helps children rebuild their confidence and rediscover the joy of being a child after the challenges of illness and treatment.

Each year, we welcome children from across the United States to camp at Barretstown in Ireland. With your support, we aim to double the number U.S. campers in the years ahead, giving even more families the chance to experience Barretstown’s life-changing programs.

A special thank you to Michael Dowling, our guest of honor, for his thoughtful and inspiring remarks. Thanks also to Gerald Angley, our new Consul General of Ireland in New York, for joining us.

Most of all thanks to the Barretstown Foundation Advisory Council, our sponsors and partners, and all of our supporters, who helped make the morning such a success!

08/13/2025

Say hello to Siobhán Lyons, our new Director of Barretstown Foundation USA! 🎉

Originally from Dublin and now in New York, Siobhán has spent her career building communities and creating connections between the U.S., Ireland, and beyond. She’s here to help more children living with serious illness experience the magic of Barretstown Camp. 💚

She’s already hit the ground running — and even made time to visit camp, meet the team, and see the magic for herself!

07/16/2025

SAVE THE DATE - October 1, 2025

Barretstown Foundation USA will host its second annual business breakfast with special guest, Michael Dowling, President and CEO of Northwell Health and Advisory Council Member for Barretstown Foundation USA.

Join us on Wednesday, October 1 to hear from Michael as he transitions to CEO Emeritus of Northwell and to to hear from the Campers whose lives you have transformed through your support of Barretstown Foundation USA.

Tickets go on sale on August 1 - we look forward to seeing you at the New York Athletic Club at 8 AM on October 1!

06/26/2025

It’s the start of summer, and our first group of US campers flew out of JFK this week!

Thanks to everyone who made this possible - from the staff at Memorial Sloan Kettering to our fabulous chaperones - and, of course, all of our supporters and donors here in America.

Thanks to you, Barretstown’s therapeutic camps give children the chance to laugh, connect and just be kids - all completely free of charge.

Thank you! 🎈

09/03/2024

We are thrilled to host an exclusive Business Breakfast with Special Guest, Dermot McDonogh Chief Financial Officer of BNY and Advisory Council Board Member for Barretstown Foundation USA.

Join us on Thursday, October 3rd, from 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM at The Lotos Club in New York.

Dermot joined BNY as Chief Financial Officer in 2022, bringing unparalleled expertise in financial leadership and overseeing nearly $50 trillion in assets globally. Before BNY, he spent over 25 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Chief Operating Officer for the EMEA region and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs International Bank.

As an Advisory Council Member of
, Dermot is a remarkable supporter of our mission.

Barretstown Foundation USA is dedicated to transforming the lives of seriously ill children and their families, and continuing to share the magic of Barretstown Camp in Kildare, Ireland, with children with cancer in the US.

With limited tables available, we encourage you to secure yours now! Your support means the world to us and to the children and families served at Barretstown.

RSVP and Table information below - please reach out to [email protected] for any further information.

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41 W 40th St،New York, NY 10018
New York, NY
10018

Website

http://www.barretstown.org/us

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Our Story

Barretstown is a specially-designed camp in County Kildare, Ireland, founded by actor and philanthropist Paul Newman. Barretstown is a proud member of the SeriousFun Children’s Network, a growing global community of independently managed and financed camps and programs. Established in 1994, with the generous donation of our 500 acre estate by the Irish Government, Barretstown was the first camp of its kind to be opened outside the USA and the third camp founded by Paul. Barretstown provides Therapeutic Recreation programs for children with serious and often life-threatening illnesses.

Children affected by serious illness, primarily cancer, come from all across Ireland, Europe, and now the United States, to take part in safe and professional programs of adventure and activities - such as high ropes, horse riding, music, photography, archery, and drama – supported behind the scenes 24/7 by professional medical staff and trained volunteers. Our residential camps are delivered using a “therapeutic recreation” model which allows children to rebuild confidence, trust, and self-esteem through facing challenges, achieving success in overcoming them, and reflecting on and discovering their own strengths. The children who come to Barretstown experience some “Serious Fun” and go home with increased confidence, self-esteem, independence, and new friendships.

Barretstown Foundation USA was founded in the summer of 2018 in New York City for the purpose of facilitating Barretstown’s vision that many more seriously ill children in Ireland and beyond will benefit from Barretstown’s ‘magic’ over the coming years.

As we embark on our new phase of growth, we have ambitious plans to partner with communities in the US on two key objectives:

1. Support for children with serious illness from the United States by establishing referral relationships for teenage campers with US Hospitals.

The number of children with serious illness that could benefit from one of Barretstown’s life changing programs is almost limitless. The medical community now fully recognize the vital role our programs play for children and families who are on the traumatic journey through serious, and often life threatening, illness. We plan, over the next five years, to increase the number of children we serve both in Ireland and the US. This can be done through making places available in our programs in Ireland or accessing places in our US based sister camps in the SeriousFun Children’s Network.

2. Opportunities for Summer College Work Placements for College Students from the U.S. by creating programs with US Colleges.

Volunteers are the heart of Barretstown’s programs. We depend on some 1,800 volunteers each year to enable us to run our programs both in Barretstown and also for our outreach programs. We would like to make a number of places available for College Students seeking summer placements in the non-profit sector. For the successful applicants, Barretstown will provide an extraordinary life changing summer placement with full board. During this summer placement, students will learn leadership skills, behavior support training, communication skills, role Modelling for children, teens and young adults, creating camp culture, and the power and value of volunteering.

One of the founding principles of Barretstown is that campers and their families come here because of need rather than ability to pay. Each year, it costs over €5 million ($5.8 million) to run the programs at Barretstown, and to fully realize our vision and significantly increase the number of children we reach, Barretstown must raise an additional €500,000 per year for five years, totaling €2.5 million to realize our vision and restore the self-esteem and confidence of thousands more children who are undergoing traumatic illness. We hope you join us in bringing Barretstown’s magic to the US.