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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£1.1M
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Spending
£1.1M
Public benefits
The Advancement of Education: There is a direct benefit to the women who engage in the community facilitator training programme as they gain knowledge and skills accreditation enabling them to gain employment in the delivery of health programmes. Local communities benefit from the delivery of health programmes which promote healthy lifestyles
within families. This benefit from the advancement of education can be demonstrated and quantified through our robust monitoring & evaluation processes and through publication via written reports, audited accounts and website. The benefit which flows from this charitable purpose enables women to learn new skills and in turn gain employment which benefits them as individuals and their families which is not harmful. The intended beneficiaries are women who live in urban & rural communities which have high levels of disadvantage. This section of the public are connected by social circumstances by living in disadvantaged communities characterized with high levels of unemployment and low levels of engagement with education establishments. The Advancement of Community Development: Families and parents are supported through delivery of health awareness programmes that will help parents gain the skills they need to help their children reach their full potential. Though the advancement of community development there is a direct benefit to the women who engage in our training programmes as they gain knowledge and skills accreditation enabling them to cascade their knowledge of health programmes back into their own communities. The wider benefit which flows from this charitable purpose is the benefit for local communities from the delivery of health programmes which promote healthy lifestyles. This benefit from the advancement of community development can be demonstrated and quantified through our robust monitoring & evaluation processes and through publication via written reports, audited accounts and website. The benefit which flows from this charitable purpose enables women to learn new skills and cascade their knowledge throughout local communities which helps to create & maintain good relations & community capacity which benefits them as individuals and their families which is not harmful. The intended beneficiaries are women who live in urban & rural communities which have high levels of disadvantage. This section of the public are connected by social circumstances by living in disadvantaged communities characterized with high levels of unemployment and low levels of uptake in community engagement. The Advancement of Equality & Diversity: WRDA has a pro-active approach to ensuring the widest possible diversity in its procedures, including recruitment of staff, of community facilitators and recruitment of participants to its programmes. It is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity. Women in rural areas are particularly disadvantaged in terms of their participation in economic and public life. In this way we support rural women to be more effective & visible at a strategic level. Though the advancement of equality & diversity there is a direct benefit to the women who engage with WRDA as this work increases their equality of opportunity to participate in training & education based on community development principles which activate employment. This benefit from the advancement of equality & diversity can be demonstrated and quantified through our robust monitoring & evaluation processes and through publication via written reports, audited accounts and website. The benefit which flows from this charitable purpose enables women to learn new skills and cascade their knowledge throughout local communities which helps to create & maintain good relations & community capacity which benefits them as individuals and their families which is not harmful.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
The Women’s Resource and Development Agency is a regional organisation, established in 1983, to provide support for women’s groups and networks across Northern Ireland. Our mission is to advance women’s equality and participation in society by working to bring about social, political and economic change. The groups we work with are from all
traditions and from urban and rural areas of Northern Ireland. We work at grass roots level to the highest levels of policy making and politics. We empower women from local communities and support them to articulate their needs. We also advance women’s interests within key policy fora.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- 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
- Ethnic minorities
- Voluntary and community sector
- Women
How the charity works
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Education/training
- Gender
- Human rights/equality
