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This charity was removed from the register on 7 Jun 2018
Public benefits
The Club encourages children and young people within North Belfast to take part in healthy physical recreation by providing facilities for the playing of football. We promote the welfare of children and young people in the area providing the facility, the equipment, the training and opportunities for them to be active and have fun in a safe,
supervised environment. At Crusaders Youth Academy, the development and welfare of children and young people is our highest priority. The principles which underpin our work are to initiate, educate, enable, support and inspire which enables everyone to reach their full potential. We work with local schools and voluntary and community based organisations to deliver football based projects to young people within the area and football is used as a medium to educate and increase the personal development, employability and health and wellbeing of young people. We actively support volunteering and offer volunteers opportunities to participate, support their development and provide accredited training opportunities. We offer educational workshops for our young people and our supervisors and coaches raising awareness in regard to nutrition, health awareness, child protection, first aid and suicide awareness, the signs and how to spot and counsel. We offer 16 to 25 year olds the opportunity to obtain accredited training as coaches and give them the platform to use the skills they learn to help and guide youth at our club with personal development. We provide opportunities to get active and have fun within our community, enabling young people to engage with different communities and build good relations. We believe all the young coaches who work with Crusaders Youth have gained valuable skill to aid them going forward and we have been able to facilitate 4 of our younger coaches into full time employment based upon the awards and skills gained working with the club. Crusaders Youth will continue to promote and encourage our staff into opportunities of employment within the local community and through our contacts forged with Global Premier Soccer that will take younger coaches to opportunities abroad. We offer continued learning and our interaction around the province has grown with our young players being able to communicate via social networking sites and our website from as far afield as Warrenpoint stretching to Omagh and beyond. We offer interactive football days bringing teams from all cultural backgrounds and even different countries eg USA and ROI. This makes young people more aware of other cultures. We have and will provide support to our players who have been integrated from different countries and have sent various playing kits to Gambia for use by teams in local villages and we will strive to recycle our playing kits in this way, giving others less fortunate opportunities beyond the club. We have set up workshops with partners, one of the most prominent being the Princes Trust, and run workshops for enterprising young players and coaches providing valuable life skills to take into their working life. Most of the participants give back to us by working with our mini soccer centre on Sunday mornings. All will benefit from being able to put detail of their learning with the Princes Trust on their CVs. We believe at Crusaders Youth Academy if you give your time to us we will endeavour to give as much to you as we can offer. Our benefits are demonstrated by feedback from participants, ongoing relationships with other bodies and individual case studies of some of our success stories. There is no harm flowing from the purposes. The only private benefit flowing from this purpose is training and qualifications for coaches but this incidental and necessary to ensure the purposes are fulfilled.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
We support over 250 young people annually to develop within football by coaching 13 non-professional youth football teams, providing opportunities to get active and have fun within our community, enabling young people to engage with different communities and build good relations. We offer a range of activities, which include: • Mini Soccer
Centre, offering opportunities for all young people at all levels of football abilities to become involved • Crues Kubs, football involvement opportunities for under eight year olds • Mini Hacthets, football involvement opportunities for eight to nine year olds • Football Teams, for the under 10s, 11s, 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s and 16 age groups We also provide skills development and accredited training in coaching for 16 to 25 year olds We offer educational workshops for young people in a range of areas eg nutrition, health awareness, child protection, first aid. We provide community outreach activities with other voluntary and community organisations and schools to deliver football based projects to young people in the area.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of amateur sport
- 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)
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Education/training
- Sport/recreation
- Youth development
Charitable purposes
The Academy is established to promote community participation in healthy recreation amongst children and young people within North Belfast and its environs of Northern Ireland (the ‘area of benefit’) by providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for the playing of Association football (facilities here means land, buildings, equipment and the organisation of sporting activities); and for the following additional purposes; a) to provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interest of social welfare for education, recreation and other leisure time occupation for the benefit of children and young people within the area of benefit so that their conditions of life may be improved; b) to educate and help said children and young people within the area of benefit through their leisure time activities so as to development their physical, mental and spiritual capacities so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society; c) to promote health amongst children and young people through the provision of outreach educational services aimed at educating children and young people concerning healthy lifestyles.