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Status
Received: 72 days late
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Income
£8.8K
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Spending
£11.3K
Public benefits
[What are the direct benefits flowing from your organisation's purposes?] We carry out a wide range of activities, projects and services focusing on improving the well being, mental and physical health of this wider community, tackling issues relating to deprivation, the legacy of the conflict and improving good relations. Creggan is an area with a
deep history of the conflict and CCC has been at the fore in terms of looking to promote a positive image of the local area. This has included working with young people on an intergenerational basis who have been affected by the conflict on all sides. Our members are involved in local mediation on a daily basis, including conflict-related disputes, local disputes and family disputes. CCC has a main client base of people who feel excluded from community life and mainstream politics. This increasingly includes members of the Protestant, migrant and Traveller communities. People from all communities have come together over the last number of years in CCC due to a feeling of disenfranchisement and gatekeeping from the two main political parties, especially evident within the community and voluntary sectors in the North West. [How can the benefits identified above be demonstrated?] Our community house operates on a 365 day a year, 24 hour a day basis as an open door drop-in centre and safe haven for anyone who needs it. People frequently come to us in distress, due to changes to their benefits, employment circumstances, family situations, financial hardships and mental health difficulties. We pride ourselves on a professional and efficient, resolution-based approach. We have built up a trust in the wider community and a reputation as people who get things done, providing confidential and people-focused solutions. This includes everything from housing to employment disputes to community tensions to family disputes. Creggan Community Collective (CCC) has over a decade's experience in providing Welfare Rights Advice, with five qualified volunteer Advisors. We regularly advise in excess of 50 clients per week. This includes local residents, as well as members of the Protestant, Traveller and BAME. [Is there any harm arising from any of the purposes?] No [Who are the charity's beneficiaries?] Our project benefits the wider community of Creggan, but in particular those who feel marginalised, excluded and disenfranchised from mainstream politically gatekept structures. In addition to Creggan residents, our group has attracted participants from across the city and district from all ages and backgrounds. [Is there any private benefit flowing from any of the purposes? Is it incidental and necessary?] No
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Provide or secure the provision of social services, educational and recreational facilities within the area of benefit; Promote and carry out, or assist in promoting and carrying out research, surveys and investigations and publish the results of any such research; organise or assist in organising meetings, lectures, classes and exhibitions, and
publish or assist in publishing reports, periodicals, recordings, books or other documents or information; recruit, train and employ volunteers with relevant skills, for furtherance of the above aims; obtain, collect and receive money and funds by way of grants, donations, legacies, subscriptions or other lawful methods; give or donate or disburse grants and loans to such related organisations or projects that are deemed as charitable by law; purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any property and any rights and privileges necessary for the attainment of the said objects and construct, maintain and alter any buildings or edifices so necessary as aforesaid; sell, let, mortgage, dispose or turn to account all or any of the property or assets of CCC; employ and pay any person or persons to supervise, organise or carry out the work of CCC and make all reasonable and necessary provision for the payment of remuneration to employees; invest the monies of CCC not immediately required for the said objects in or upon such investments, securities or property as may be thought fit. Subject nevertheless to such conditions (if any) as may for the time being be imposed or required by law; do all such other lawful things as may be necessary for the attainment of the above objects.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
- Adult training
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Ethnic minorities
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- General public
- Homelessness
- Interface communities
- Language community
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Sensory disabilities
- Sexual orientation
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Tenants
- Travellers
- Unemployed/low income
- Victim support
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Animal welfare
- Arts
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Counselling/support
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Disability
- Economic development
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- Gender
- General charitable purposes
- Heritage/historical
- Human rights/equality
- Medical/health/sickness
- Relief of poverty
- Research/evaluation
- Urban development
- Volunteer development
- Welfare/benevolent
- Youth development
