Public benefits

The organisation meets the public benefit requirement by providing funded, health and well-being and social support programmes to those adversely affected by state violence as a result of the conflict in NI. In practice this means that our organisation’s purposes are to address the trauma, injustices, lost opportunities and distress experienced by many individuals throughout Co Fermanagh and its environs. Promoting and protecting human rights for those affected by death during conflict demands necessary support within a safe environment for individuals who seek redress of the past. All who require this service attend Firinne. We continue to respond to the evolving and diverse needs of all victims by providing service delivery activity, specific to their varied and complex needs. Core benefit for most victims is to promote their need for historical truth recovery. Firinne does this by providing information sessions with professional speakers enabling awareness and engagement for victims with all other relevant bodies to help their quest. By addressing victim’s needs ensures the continuing pro-active commitment by members to benefit from services. All services at the organisation and during outreach through practical and creative mechanisms towards the healing process. Public benefit is further evidenced by all members in the organisation who continue to pursue historical investigation into lost loved ones. The organisation examines and develops transitional justice by holding conversations, seminars round-table talks in relation to Dealing with the Legacy of the Past for victims to address their experiences and loss towards a positive future of reconciliation.

What your organisation does

Firinne represents and supports victims of state conflict in Co. Fermanagh and its environs by providing appropriate Developmental-based Support and Therapies addressing victimhood. Firinne does this by supporting victims through a Health and Well-Being programme with a Social Support focus to work parallel in dealing with past trauma. This is effectively delivered through the provision of individualised, funded courses of professional health and social care such as Holistic Therapies, Yoga care, professional Conflict Resolution training, Life Coaching and Truth Commission work to examine conflict-related loss for all victims and their families. Courses are tailored to individual need and ongoing is pursuit for Truth recovery. Tantamount to the relief of past trauma and distress is the advancement of human rights on all Truth and Justice issues for those who suffered as a result of the conflict. This is achieved by all work programmes above interconnecting and demonstrating the advancement of human rights and conflict resolution for victims. Individuals are helped by providing them with a focus and means to examine their past victimhood in an effort to help them progress positively towards a shared future. In the absence of examination and awareness training of a victim’s past, trauma would not be properly dealt with and reconciliation would not be possible. Dealing with the Legacy of the Past by working parallel with support programmes, assists individual’s healing by benefitting their overall health and victimhood by engaging activity for positive outcomes for individuals. High-quality care and support is guaranteed, as both Firinne’s staff are qualified Victim’s Practitioners and they identify and provide the best services/activity to benefit the specific needs of Firinne’s beneficiaries.