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The WOMENSTEC (Training, Enterprise & Childcare Centre)

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £1.1M

  • Spending

    £921.3K

Charity no. 100185 Date registered. 30/09/2014

Public benefits

WOMEN’STEC is the largest quality provider of training for women in non-traditional skills in Northern Ireland. The direct benefits accruing from our purposes include: • students gain qualifications and practical skills • students experience heightened self esteem and confidence enabling them to move forward into further training and

employment. • students enhance their employability, increasing their opportunities to move into further training and education or employment. • Students are better equipped to move into paid employment, therefore increasing their economic security. The purposes of WOMEN’STEC do not lead to any harm. Furthermore, there is no private benefit accruing to people connected with WOMEN’STEC.

What your organisation does

WOMEN’STEC is a unique organisation based in Belfast providing non traditional training skills and opportunities throughout Northern Ireland that enable women to consider engaging in a range of future career options. TEC stand for Training, Enterprise and Childcare Centre as the organisation provides all of these facilities as well as

complimentary training to women who are socially and economically disadvantaged, ultimately offering them career perspectives. WOMEN’STEC provides a community based setting where women can engage in activities and training with the potential to lead to employment or business set up in traditionally male dominated sectors using qualified tradeswomen as tutors, flexible supported learning and childcare facilities. Some of our training programmes enable women to study skills such as joinery, plumbing, horticulture, business enterprise, civic leadership and IT skills with CV development and job service support. In addition offer a wide range of fundamental courses such as health and safety, basic DIY, money management, women’s history and other life skills. WOMEN’STEC is committed to achieving equality of opportunity through encouraging, empowering and enabling women to gain the skills and confidence to work in non-traditional employment. WOMEN’STEC is accredited Open College Network NI (OCNNI) centre and offers a wide range of bespoke course in trades and ICT. We have an excellent ICT suite which is British Computer Society (BCS) approved for ECDL. WOMEN’STEC is committed to creating and maintaining a welcoming environment for all who work with us which is friendly, respectful, fair and encouraging.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Interface communities
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Education/training
  • Gender

This display is a broad summary of the charity’s financial information. For a full understanding of the charity’s finances, the reader should view the PDF accounts and reports under the Documents tab above.

Income

£1.1M

Spending

£921.3K

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2022

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

The company’s objects (“Objects") are specifically restricted to the advancement of education and the prevention and relief of poverty and unemployment amongst people and in particular women and young girls aged 12 years and over (hereinafter called the “beneficiaries”) in Northern Ireland (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and provide facilities to improve the conditions of life for the said beneficiaries in the interests of social welfare and in particular to: (a) to promote, facilitate and organise adequate, accessible and quality programmes of vocational and educational training, information and support in an effort to acquire skills and retraining to assist the beneficiaries in obtaining employment or establishing themselves in business especially but not exclusively in sectors where women have traditionally had low levels of participation; (b) provide advice, assistance, education and work programmes in an effort to develop and improve the capacity, knowledge, skills, expertise, well-being and self-confidence of the beneficiaries in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society; (c) to promote the advancement of all forms of training of women in the area of benefit; (d) to organize, facilitate and provide programmes of vocational and educational training to men and young boys aged 12 years and over in the area of benefit in an effort to assist in relieving unemployment; (e) to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the directors, may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

WOMEN'STEC
  • 6 Trustees
  • 19 Employees
  • 3 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Lynn Carvill, Women'stec, 29 Chichester Avenue, Belfast., BT15 5EH

Trustee board

Trustee
Michael Potter
Sylvia Gordon
Ms Nuala Griffiths
Ms Maria Bradley
Ms Siobhan Brown
Ms Andrea Morrow

List of regions

  • In Ireland
  • In The Uk
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