Home for Christmas is a programme of the Fisher & Farmer Foundation — the charitable arm of Fisher & Farmer, which works across food, land, and the places and people that produce it.
The Foundation holds the work that is charitable by nature: connecting communities to good food, teaching the trades of fishing and small-scale farming, keeping the record of a working heritage, and — at Christmas, in Connemara — keeping a room and a table for families who have neither settled this winter.
The through-line is simple enough. Good food, a warm room, and a seat at the table are not luxuries to be earned. Home for Christmas is that principle, applied to the coldest fortnight of the year.
The Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organisation. How that is presented to an Irish donor — whose tax treatment differs from a US donor's — matters, and we would rather say nothing than say something wrong.
The paragraph below is drafted and deliberately held back. It will be finalised once the Foundation's Irish operating arrangement is confirmed.
“The Fisher & Farmer Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) organisation. Gifts from US taxpayers may be tax-deductible in the United States. Irish tax relief on charitable donations operates under a separate scheme and applies only to bodies with Irish charitable status; whether and how Irish donors can claim relief on gifts to this programme depends on the Foundation's Irish arrangements, which are being confirmed. Please take your own advice.”
Everything the Foundation does at Christmas comes down to those three things, kept for families who would otherwise go without them.
