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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£11.0K
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Spending
£4.8K
Public benefits
To promote the history and heritage of Fermanagh and the public and private study of family history by engaging in educational and research activities and assisting people who wish to research their own family history. What benefit flows from this purpose? The public benefit is enabling beneficiaries to access family history resources in
Fermanagh, educating them in the process of searching for their family history in Ireland. Can you demonstrate this? These benefits are demonstrated through feedback from visitors to the Centre and regular independent evaluation of our services through client surveys and interviews. Is any harm or possibility of harm outweighed by the benefit? This purpose does not lead to harm. Who is the benefit for? The charity’s beneficiaries are people living worldwide who have an interest in their family history and the history and heritage of Fermanagh. Is there any private benefit? Is it incidental or necessary? A private benefit to Directors may arise from our programme of ongoing training in good governance, finance etc. Through this training Directors gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. A private benefit to our volunteers may arise from our programme of ongoing training in accessing family history resources. Through this training volunteers gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. A private benefit to one of our Directors could arise from beneficiaries requesting further additional research. This arises as one of our Directors provides specialist genealogical research services for a fee. This benefit is incidental and is not promoted as part of the free consultation service. All of the above benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. 2) To promote the preservation, transcription, indexing and dissemination of, and public access to, genealogical records, data, information, resources and related material and to create a genealogy archive of documents, artefacts and other material relating to Fermanagh and surrounding areas. What benefit flows from this purpose? The public benefit is enabling beneficiaries to access Fermanagh family history resources, improving the range of resources that are currently available. Can you demonstrate this? These benefits are demonstrated through regular reporting of the resources available and regular independent evaluation of our services through client surveys and interviews. Is any harm or possibility of harm outweighed by the benefit? This purpose does not lead to harm. Who is the benefit for? The charity’s beneficiaries are people living worldwide who have an interest in accessing Fermanagh family history resources. Is there any private benefit? Is it incidental or necessary? A private benefit to Directors and volunteers may arise from the increased availability of Fermanagh family history resources. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. 3) To promote cross community relations, cultural exchange and cultural tourism in Fermanagh and surrounding areas. What benefit flows from this purpose? The public benefit is creating a welcoming place for visitors, irrespective of religious, ethnic or cultural background. Can you demonstrate this? These benefits are demonstrated through feedback from visitors to the Centre and regular independent evaluation of our services through client surveys and interviews. Is any harm or possibility of harm outweighed by the benefit? This purpose does not lead to harm. Who is the benefit for? The charity’s beneficiaries are people living worldwide who have an interest in visiting Fermanagh. Is there any private benefit? Is it incidental or necessary? There is no private benefit arising from this purpose.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
We operate a genealogy service and organise talks and tours for our members. Membership is open to all for a fee. Currently the genealogy service is based at Enniskillen Castle Visitor Centre and the talks are based at Enniskillen Library. We organise our board meetings and volunteer meetings at Fermanagh House, which is run by Fermanagh Trust. We
are the genealogy delivery services partner for Fermanagh and Omagh District Council. We operate a free consultation service to visitors, assisting them with their family and local history enquiries and act as a signpost for genealogy and local history resources in the County, putting visitors in touch with other tourism providers. We also deal with email enquiries via our email address. We operate a facebook page and engage with a worldwide audience, assisting and encouraging people with their genealogy and local history enquiries relating to Fermanagh and the surrounding area. We are also transcribing genealogy and local history resources for Fermanagh and plan to digitise resources and make them available on a variety of different web platforms, thereby promoting the history and heritage of Fermanagh.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- General public
- Older people
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Education/training
- Heritage/historical
- Research/evaluation
- Volunteer development
