Cheers Shops!
The first Cheers! Shop was opened in Tullamore General Hospital in April 1988. Prior to this no permanent shop service existed in any of the General Hospitals in the Midlands Region.
APT now manages seven Cheers! Shops offering a wide variety of goods, food and hot beverages in the following HSE hospitals:
- Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise
- St Fintans Hospital Portlaoise
- St Vincents Hospital Mountmellick
- Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore
- Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar
- St Lomans Hospital Mullingar.
The Cheers! Shops exist:
- To provide training & employment for people with disabilities
- To provide a quality service to the hospitals for patients, visitors & hospital staff.
- To demonstrate the abilities of people with disabilities
The shops are run in a professional manner, with any profits generated being used for projects benefiting people with disabilities.
