Ted Clarke Memorial Trust

Public benefits

The benefits which flow from the purpose are :- 1. the opportunity for children to receive football coaching from trained coaches. 2. the opportunity of supervised physical exercise leading to improved physical health and physical fitness. 3. providing children with an outlet for developing their football skills which may lead at a later date to

employment opportunities in semi-professional or professional football. 4. the availability of this coaching provides an outlet for children to focus their energy, develop their interests in physical exercise and reduce or eliminate the opportunity to become involved in anti-social activities. These benefits can be demonstrated as follows:- 1. a record is kept of all children attending the coaching sessions. 2. a record is kept of all football teams and the members of the team who participate in the categorised (by age) amateur leagues. 3. Records are maintained of those players who progress through the various teams with a small minority eventually playing in the Northern Ireland Football League, and occasionally a player becoming a semi-professional or professional player in Ireland or elsewhere. Physical training and being involved in a contact sport (football) can occasionally result in injury, however the benefits outweigh any risk involved. The charities beneficiaries are children (between the ages of 6 and 17) who are provided with physical exercise, structured training and competitive team sport at an amateur level also encouraging interest and support from parents and carers. The private benefit that arises would be to the coaches who receive payment and to those who are paid for the hire of their facilities and football grounds. These payments are incidental and necessary to the achievement of the purposes and are outweighed by the benefits to the beneficiaries. The trustees receive no private benefit.

What your organisation does

The organisation carries out its purpose by providing football coaching and training to children from all backgrounds between the ages of 6 and 17 years of age. The football teams are then arranged into "age categories" and compete at an amateur level with other teams of the same category throughout Northern Ireland.