Prestigious leadership award for CEO of Mayo Roscommon Hospice

The CEO of Mayo Roscommon Hospice Martina Jennings, has won the Excellence in Charity Leadership Award at this year’s Charity Excellence Awards, with judges commenting that “a leader like this is not born every day."

Martina was selected from a shortlist of eight CEOs, with Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation the only regional charity represented in the category.

Congratulating her, Paul Foxe, chairman of Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, said: “We were overjoyed and immensely proud that Martina has won the Excellence in Charity Leadership Award.

"Her exceptional leadership over the past nine years has brought the foundation from strength to strength.

"Martina is hugely committed to the organisation, its people and the families we support, and this award is very well deserved. We are all incredibly proud of her.”

On winning the awardm Martina Jennings stated: “I was thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Excellence in Charity Leadership Award, but to win is truly special.

"No one achieves anything on their own. I am blessed to be guided by an incredible voluntary board and to work alongside a fantastic, committed team who support me and the work of the foundation every day.

"I inherited an already impressive organisation nine years ago. My role is to leave it in an even better place."

This is Martina’s fourth accolade, having previously been named Mayo’s Most Inspirational Woman in 2015 and Mayo Person of the Year in 2020, before receiving the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Award in 2024.