SPF in a Nutshell 

The Saint Patrick Foundation is community of people from various backgrounds and traditions who are seeking to reconnect Saint Patrick's Day with the ancient legacy that gave it birth. Through the Patrick Project our desire is to develop the way our Patron Saint is celebrated on the island of Ireland and throughout the Irish Diaspora and harness that celebration to accomplish three key things:

1. To bring communities together 

 2. To inspire young people and leaders 

3. To overcome poverty and alienation

The work of the Saint Patrick Foundation, like that of Patrick himself, is a response to the issues of conflict, injustice and poverty. Through the establishment of the St Patrick Prayer Breakfast, the ‘Spirit of St Patrick’ Initiative and the St Patrick’s Day Trust, our desire is to retell Patrick’s inspirational story and recast Patrick’s captivating vision for a world in which every life is valued.

Living more than a century before the foundation of Islam, five hundred years before the Great Schism and a millennium before the Reformation, Patrick stands free from many of the labels that divide people on the island of Ireland and around the world. In revisiting the non-contested space of his history, the Saint Patrick Foundation’s desire is to help promote and create such non-contested space in the world of today - space in which our young people, local communities and leaders can meet, dialogue, build friendship, be inspired and join together in shared action for a better future. In such a context, the legacy of the world’s most celebrated and beloved Patron Saint can not only be rediscovered but can be re-engaged to accomplish in our world what it did in his.

Our goal is to see Saint Patrick’s Day become one of the most significant community and reconciliation events in the world’s annual calendar.