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Garvagh & District Community Association

  • Status

    Received: 1 days late

  • Income

    £16.7K

  • Spending

    £15.8K

Charity no. 100200 Date registered. 01/09/2014

Public benefits

The benefits for purpose one of Garvagh and District Community Association include provision of a facility for the population of the local area to attend a range of social and educational activities which in turn improve their standard of education, health and fitness. These benefits can be demonstrated by the attendance records held of activities

run in the facility and feedback from attendees. The beneficiaries are the people living in the Garvagh area and surrounding areas. There is no harm arising from this purpose and nobody gains a private benefit. The benefits for purpose two include provision of a community centre where the people of Garvagh and surrounding areas have access to a facility where they can attend and participate in a variety of social, health and recreational activities. These benefits can be demonstrated by the existence of the facility and records of the varoius activities which can be accessed in it. The intended beneficiaries are the people of Garvagh and surrounding areas. There is no harm arising from this purpose and nobody gains a private benefit.

What your organisation does

The Garvagh & District community association region lies in the glenderg ward region which is amongst the highest in NI for being disadvantaged and deprived. G&D community association hopes to bring confidence & pride to the area and positively restore it. G&D hall is situated on the Tyrone/Donegal border 6 miles from Castlederg and 8 miles from

Ballybofey. Our organisation was formed in 1993 and has been in existence since. An old hall has been completely refurbished. The aims are to serve the people of the area and provide a focal point for all of the community. Our organisation runs courses for dancing, computers, first aid, keep fit courses and a successful youth club. Members of the community can also rent out the hall for functions. Our organisation has no debts we own our hall and associated land. The hall is a focus point in the local area and is attended by all sections of the community from the young to the old. Our group is cross community and cross border. The organisation supports children and young people, it helps them realise that they have a valid role to play in community development. Among the current supervisors at the youth club are some of the people who have benefited from provision of this facility and can now teach others to be good ambassadors for the area and community association.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • 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

Who the charity helps

  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Ex-offenders and prisoners
  • General public
  • Learning disabilities
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Parents
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Community development
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Education/training
  • Gender
  • General charitable purposes
  • Grant making
  • Playgroup/after schools
  • Relief of poverty
  • Rural development
  • Sport/recreation
  • Youth development

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Charitable purposes

The purposes as stated under clause 2 in the Constitution of Garvagh & District Community Association are: The Association is established to: • relieve poverty, sickness and the aged and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Garvagh and district area of Co. Tyrone and its environs (hereinafter described as “the area of benefit”) without distinction of age, sex, race, political, religious or other opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education, and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants; • to establish or to secure the establishment of a Community Centre (hereinafter called “the centre”) and to maintain and manage, or to co-operate with any local statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the Association and its constituent bodies in furtherance of the above objects.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • 6 Trustees
  • 7 Employees
  • 20 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Miss Bridget Mc Glinchey, 50 Carn Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone., BT81 7UX

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr John Pat Connolly Beng
Mr Hugh A. Moss Beng Hons Ceng
Ms Mary Mcfadden
Miss Bridget Mcglinchey
Ms Nicole Diggins
Mr Hugh Moss

List of regions

  • Derry City And Strabane District Council
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