Our Organisation

History

History will show that the Irish Missionary Resource Service (IMRS) was incorporated under the companies act and accorded charitable status in January 2004. The foundation of the IMRS is rooted in the recommendations of the Ireland Aid Review Committee (2002) which acknowledged that “the historical roots of the Ireland Aid programme lie in the remarkable work which has been carried out over many years by Irish missionaries and recommended that “..a special effort should be made to support the development work of Irish missionaries who have been active in the poorest countries of the world for the best part of a century and who are making an invaluable contribution to the alleviation of poverty and suffering”.

Following considerable discussion between the Irish Missionary Union (IMU) and Development Cooperation Ireland (now Irish Aid), the IMRS was conceived as the most appropriate mechanism through which the Government’s funding support could be coordinated for the missionaries and, following an internal change management process within the IMU, the IMRS was established.