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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£151.9K
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Spending
£153.7K
Public benefits
Purpose: Advancing public education by the provision of training in drama and performance skills. The Trustees believe that our purpose satisfies the public benefit requirement. What benefit: The direct benefits which flow from our purpose include - • The improved health and welfare of marginalized children, youth and adults through skills
development, developing confidence and self esteem, social skills, team working, decision-making skills, empathy, ambition, self awareness, reduce isolation and develop social networks and increase employability. • Developing an equal society by highlighting the benefits and achievements and therefore developing empathy and understanding for marginalized members of society - contributing to the development of social cohesion and a healthy civil society for all. • Bring new energies and skills into marginalized/isolated communities. Evidence: KIC operates a policy of continual monitoring and evaluation – the benefits that come from our work are clearly evidenced through feedback from our user groups and external assessors. There is no harm flowing from our purpose. KIC operates a risk register which is monitored and updated regularly. Who is the benefit for The beneficiaries of our purpose are: Children, young people and adults with disabilities. Children and young people from designated areas of deprivation - interface areas, isolated and/or marginalized TSN communities. Private benefit – The Trustees benefit through Good Governance training and training in Child Protection and for Vulnerable Adults. Through this training they will gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. This benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. KIC has a culture of learning and developing best practice in our service provision and to this end it is necessary to provide training and up-skilling opportunities where appropriate to employees. Through this training they will gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. This benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. To enhance service provision in our target areas KIC provides training and mentoring to youth and community workers as well as volunteer leadership programmes for older youth in mainstream schools and we are confident that this benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure benefit is provided to our beneficiaries.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
To meet our purpose KIC designs all programs with the following core values: • Respect for all people. • Integration at the core. • Committed to learner led flexible programming. • Focused on long-term benefits and impact for individuals. KIC is available to people who want to use creative learning drama projects to change the community for the
better. We provide in some of Northern Ireland's most isolated and marginalised communities that fall under NI's policy for TSN and people classified under Section 75. To access our work to our target beneficiaries KIC implements programs in a variety of settings including community and voluntary groups, youth groups and schools. Our participants have very diverse needs and require sensitive and high levels of support, therefore, we work closely with their guardians; carers, social workers, parents, foster parents, youth leaders, support workers and community police. Programmes include: COMMUNITY OUTREACH: targeting TSN areas and Section 75 youth. KIC outreach work delivers programming at the heart of communities. SCHOOLS INCLUSION PROGRAMME: linking mainstream and special schools, developing volunteers and peer leaders, empathy and understanding. IN-HOUSE CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMMES: participation comes from our community outreach programmes in special and mainstream schools as well as TSN community projects and open recruitment. SPECIAL PROGRAMMES: KIC delivers the all ability creative learning programme for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. KIC takes part in the Arts and Disability Forum’s Bounce Festival, NI’s first disability and deaf arts international festival. KIC provides training modules for the University of Ulsters’Youth Work Course - personal development creative learning programmes directed at building capacity of youth workers in marginalized communities.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Interface communities
- Learning disabilities
- Mental health
- Physical disabilities
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Voluntary and community sector
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Arts
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Disability
- Education/training
- Youth development
