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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£6.7M
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Spending
£17.0M
Public benefits
The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland provides grants and community development support to local communities to enable them to address issues of social justice. All grants are awarded on the basis of evidence that the funding will have a positive impact on the local community and the beneficiaries. The prevention or the relief of poverty:
Grants to disadvantaged communities will provide support and facilities in these areas, providing local people with improved access to benefits advice and support and training to develop their skills to gain employment. The advancement of education: Grants to individuals and organisations will enable them to access training and skills to develop their learning and improve their employment prospects. The advancement of health or the saving of lives: Grants to organisations will enable local people to access activities such as physical activities and healthy eating awareness programmes that will improve their health and well-being. The advancement of citizenship or community development: Grants to communities will bring local people together to develop facilities and services in their local area that will improve their well-being and social inclusion. The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science: Grants to individuals and organisations will enable people to access the arts and take part in music, drama, craft workshops and other activities that will improve their social inclusion, skills and well-being. The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity: Grants to organisations will enable these organisations to address issues of social justice and human rights in their communities and engage in capacity building to address contentious issues in interface communities. This will improve the safety and well-being of local people. The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage: Grants to individuals and organisations will enable local people to access support and activities which address their needs, thus reducing their isolation, improving their social inclusion and well-being. The above benefits are demonstrated through research, feedback and evaluations taken from our donors, funders and grantees and the general community. The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland’s beneficiaries are mainly people living in Northern Ireland but also include people living outside Northern Ireland. There is no harm or potential for harm as a result of our purposes. Any private benefit is incidental in terms of enhanced health and wellbeing, skills development, and improved access to services and facilities as a result of grants awarded. Private benefits to trustees may arise from the programme of on-going training in good governance, finance etc. Through this training trustees gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These skills are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to the beneficiaries.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland is a local, independent charitable foundation, connecting people who care with causes that matter. We help communities in need, drive social change and change lives, through impactful grant-making, research, strategic partnerships and delivering innovative programmes. The Foundation works with other
foundations, trusts and donors to provide grants and support to a wide range of community groups and individuals in Northern Ireland, particularly helping them to address issues of poverty and social justice.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
- 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)
- Adult training
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Ethnic minorities
- Homelessness
- Interface communities
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Sexual orientation
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Travellers
- Voluntary and community sector
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Grant making
