Chefs’ date with charity calendar

TWELVE of Ireland’s Michelin-starred chefs have stepped out of their kitchens to raise vital funds for young adults in Ireland with mental health difficulties.

Some of the top chefs involved in the

‘Walk in My Shoes’ 2015 charity calendar include Masterchef Oliver Dunne, L’Ecrivain’s Derry Clarke, Kevin Thornton, Chapter’s One’s Ross Lewis, Gary O’ Hanlon, Residence’s talented Graham Neville, Raymond McArdle and RTE’s Kevin Dundon.

The calendar will sell online on walkinmyshoes.ie for

?¬12 and in Fitzpatrick’s Shoes at no 76 Grafton Street. All funds raised will go to

‘Walk in My Shoes’.

Speaking at the launch of the calendar, Oliver Dunne, who initiated the project, said:

“As chefs, we have hectic schedules. We all have good days, tough days and bad days. We want young people to know that we’re all the same, we all have mental health, we all have different days but if we can’t cope, then we need to ask for help.

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‘Walk in My Shoes’ funds the St Patrick’s Support & Information Line which is a confidential telephone and email service staffed by experienced mental health professionals from 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday with an answering and call-back facility outside hours.
You can contact the Support & Information service by calling 01 249 3333, or [email protected]

The

‘Walk in My Shoes’ campaign run by St Patrick’s Mental Health Foundation raises funds to provide mental health services, support and information to vulnerable young adults throughout Ireland.

It was inspired by a 16-year-old in St Patrick’s University Hospital who wished his friends could

‘walk in his shoes’ to understand what he was going through.

In the 2015 calendar, chefs have stepped into shoes they normally wouldn’t wear to raise awareness and stamp out the stigma that surrounds mental health.