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Relate Northern Ireland

  • Status

    Received: 69 days late

  • Income

    £916.5K

  • Spending

    £1.1M

Charity no. 102102 Date registered. 02/06/2015

Public benefits

The direct benefits which flow from purpose (a) are: An understanding, knowledge and awareness by the public of what constitutes positive emotional relationships which contributes to healthy family relationships. The direct benefits which flow from purpose (b) are: Increased individual and collective knowledge, understanding and awareness of the

health and wellbeing needs of positive relationships which contribute to family policy development in Northern Ireland. The direct benefits which flow from purpose (c) are: Improved emotional, mental and physical health wellbeing and increased capacity to demonstrate resilience by both adults and children. The direct benefits which flow from purpose (d) are: Enhancement of the stability of relationships, relief of the emotional impact of separation due to family breakdown and re-establishment of a level of trust between couples and partners. This enables clients to lead more effective lives through improved relationships, enables them to continue with daily activities and improves their ability to continue in employment or education. The direct benefits which flow from purpose (e) are: Improved emotional and mental health wellbeing, enhanced self-esteem and resilience of the victims and survivors of domestic abuse and violence. The direct benefits which flow from purpose (f) are: Improved behavioural change amongst the perpetrators of domestic abuse which leads to reduced victimisation and a reduction in the frequency and severity of domestic abuse. Improved safety in relationships is also reported by partners and children affected by domestic abuse. The direct benefits which flow from purpose (g) are: Improved sexual function in response to the sexual difficulties experienced by clients The direct benefits which flow from purpose (h) are: Improved emotional, mental and physical health wellbeing and increased resilience demonstrated by both adults and children. The direct benefits which flow from purpose (i) are: Improved emotional, mental and physical health wellbeing and resilience of individuals, couples, groups and families within an equality and diversity service delivery context. All of the benefits in purposes (a) to (e) are demonstrated through feedback from our clients through evaluation questionnaires, the use of client outcomes measurement tools, monitoring and evaluation of our services by both statutory health and social care and voluntary funding organisations. These benefits are also demonstrated by independently commissioned evaluations of our services from time to time and the benefits are reported upon in our Annual Review of the organisation’s activities. In providing therapeutic intervention for clients with emotional distress, there is a risk of expression of emotional distress however the benefit outweighs the harm. Relate provides professional therapeutic relationship counselling services and its beneficiaries are the general public mainly in Northern Ireland with some beneficiaries emanating from the border counties in the Republic of Ireland. A private benefit to trustees may arise from our ongoing training in good governance and strategic leadership of the organisation. Through this training trustees gain skills and experience which can be transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. A private benefit to individual counsellors may arise as a result of undertaking the organisation’s couple counselling training programme. Counsellors gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. However these benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries.

What your organisation does

Relate NI undertakes: Purpose (a) - Relate NI publishes a range of information in written format and on digital platforms for the benefit of the public, individuals, parents and service planners and to facilitate and promote access to our relationship counseling services for families, children and young people. Purpose (b) - Relate NI undertakes

evidenced based and action research into a wide range of relationship issues and publishes the results of this research for the benefit of informing the public and to influence public policy on relationship issues. Purpose (c) - Relate NI provides relationship counselling services to over 3,000 people annually from 9 centres. We enhance emotional wellbeing in individuals, couples, families and communities by delivering professional counselling and therapeutic services. Purpose (d) - Relate NI provides a range of counselling services which support individuals, couples, families, children and young people and develops and participates in integrated partnership projects with other organisations which focus on delivering joined up, wraparound services for the benefit of the community. Purposes (e) - Relate NI provides counselling services to the victims of domestic abuse. Purpose (f) - Relate NI provides counselling services to the perpetrators of domestic abuse and delivers awareness and training programmes including our ‘Safety in Relationships’ programme to the perpetrators of domestic abuse. Purpose (g) - Relate NI provides psycho - sexual therapy to individuals and couples to help address sexual dysfunction and intimacy issues. Purpose (h) - Relate NI provides counselling services in partnership with a range of partners in the statutory, voluntary and community sectors to people interacting with the health and social care and criminal justice systems. Purpose (i) - Relate NI promotes equality of opportunity and good relations and we promote and deliver our counselling services to everyone in the community.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Ex-offenders and prisoners
  • General public
  • Mental health
  • Parents
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Counselling/support
  • Medical/health/sickness
  • Relief of poverty

This display is a broad summary of the charity’s financial information. For a full understanding of the charity’s finances, the reader should view the PDF accounts and reports under the Documents tab above.

  • Due documents received late information

  • This charity failed to provide information on its finances within 10 months of its financial year end. This information has now been received.

Income

£916.5K

Spending

£1.1M

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2022

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

(a) to educate the public and individuals concerning the institution of marriage, civil partnerships and secure couple relationships with particular reference to emotional, physical and sexual relationships and with a view to developing personal responsibilities and enriching family life; (b) to promote research into all aspects of marriage, civil partnerships and secure couple relationships and to publish the results of all such research; (c) to safeguard, seek to enhance and protect the good health both mental and physical of adults and children; (d) to encourage conflict resolution and reconciliation and to prevent poverty, hardship and distress caused by the break-up of the marriage, civil partnership or other relationship; (e) to offer assistance and support to victims of domestic abuse; (f) to educate and engage with perpetrators of domestic abuse in order to promote reconciliation and avoid future abuse from occurring; (g) to offer psycho-sexual therapy; (h) to offer assistance to individuals interacting with health and social care and the criminal justice systems; and (i) to offer guidance and assistance to individuals, couples, groups and families on all aspects of relationships regardless of age, sexual orientation or relationship status.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

Relate NI
  • 9 Trustees
  • 24 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Joan Davis, Relate Northern Ireland, 3 Glengall Street, Belfast, BT12 5AB

Trustee board

Trustee
Aidan Bennett
Mr Vernon Fox
Felicity Lamrock
Ms Bernie Kelly
Mrs Siobhan Casey
Mrs Sarah Fletcher
Mrs Evelyn Patricia Gordon
Mr John Keers Bl
Ms Fiona Magee

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
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