Overdue: 293 days
Public benefits
The direct benefits of our core purpose (reducing isolation and increasing viability of the LGBTQIA+ community in Mid Ulster) are threefold; by providing a support network and safe spaces for LGBT peoples we greatly improve their quality of life and access to information and health services that were difficult before. By promoting visibility of the
LGBT community through our coffee mornings and Parade, we serve as a realistic example of LGBT community to those people who may feel themselves to be LGBT, but are unable to express themselves yet due to perceived family, religious, or societal pressures. This reduces peoples reliance on other depictions of LGBT communities common in media, which does not necessarily reflect the values and pace of life more common among rural communities. Our third benefit is encouraging expanding LGBT community in Mid Ulster to remain in Mid Ulster. By creating safe, healthy environments we create spaces where LGBT people do not feel the need to leave for areas which are perceived as more "gay friendly" which in turn keeps LGBT people within Mid Ulster preventing "brain drain", encouraging a sense of community in Mid Ulster as a whole, and reducing the number of people emigrating from rural communities. The benefits pertaining to quality of life will be measured by annual surveys conducted by Mid Ulster Pride at our Pride Parade. These surveys will ask a variety of questions pertaining to quality of life and level of health education available for LGBT folks. Benefits pertaining to visibility of the LGBT community of Mid Ulster will be demonstrated by increasing membership of Mid Ulster Pride and by careful analysis and reporting on attendance of MUP events, public social media engagement, and messages received through those platforms. The third main benefit will be partially judged by self reporting of the LGBT community in Mid Ulster through questionnaires provided by Mid Ulster Pride, and in the fullness of time the next census which will hopefully show an increase in the number of people openly identifying as LGTB in Mid Ulster. While we cannot identify any harm flowing from our purposes, it should be noted that certain groups of people are opposed to Mid Ulster Prides aims and objectives, mostly on a religious basis. Mid Ulster Pride operates a non-engagement policy with groups that oppose us on religious grounds. The charity's beneficiaries are the rural LGBTQIA+ community in the Mid Ulster council area, their families, and their supporters. Aside from the members of the charity who are LGBTQIA+ who will benefit the same way other LGBTQIA+ folks will, there is no private benefit flowing from our purposes.
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In order to carry out the charitable purposes, the trustees have the power to cooperate with and support other charities with similar charitable purposes (e.g The Rainbow Project). The trustees will be given an area of focus to apply their skills and abilities, and thereby doing everything that is lawful and necessary to achieve the charity’s
purposes. This charity will maintain a social media presence, and through social media promote networking and signposting, as well as promotion of this charity's own events. This charity will have a minimum of four coffee mornings within the three main areas of Mid Ulster (Dungannon, Cookstown and Magherfelt.) By doing so, it will continue to reduce the rural isolation within the LGBTQ Community of Mid Ulster. The ultimate goal is any events that are facilitated is to promote the Mid Ulster Pride Parade. The parade shall take place every year within Cookstown, and shall fall during the end of summer either in the months of August or September.
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- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
Who the charity helps
- Hiv/aids
- Men
- Sexual orientation
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Cultural
- Gender
- Human rights/equality
- Rural development