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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£15.2K
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Spending
£13.6K
Public benefits
To facilitate the relief of need and hardship of the people of Romania by working in partnership with local authorities in Romania. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include the provision of improved facilities for the disabled and support for those most vulnerable communities which have limited or no resources of their own. These
benefits are demonstrated through detailed discussions with the service users themselves, working together to improve their services and getting verbal and written feedback at the end of your yearly projects. Our future projects are identified from our feedback and we attempt to meet the need from within our resources. We do not see that our charity will lead to any harm for anybody or group of people. We only see benefits for the most vulnerable within Romania. The charity’s beneficiaries are those children, young people and adults who have a learning, physical and /or sensory disability and who live in poor communities or within a hospital, children’s home and in institutions within Romania. The only private benefit flowing from this purpose is self-satisfaction at helping those most in need and this is incidental and necessary because volunteers need to enjoy what they are doing and learn from the experience to share with others.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
our group of volunteers, male and female, from both sides of our community travel to Romania usually for one week in July. During our week there we work on an individual project as our main project and other smaller projects. We are in the middle of building an extension to an old house which is being used as a day centre for young people with a
range of physical and learning disabilities. We have refurbished the building and along with building the extension we have transformed the premises into a modern day fit for purpose day centre for up to 30 young people. We have designed and built a sensory garden at the centre which enables the users with visual impairments and challenging behaviours to experience some quality therapy time. Our smaller projects includes painting hospital wards in a childrens hospital, playing with the children, providing food programmes for run down psychiatric hospitals as well as individual poor families who have no money, enabling young people to experience new activities such as a visit to the zoo or to a mcdonalds restaurant. We bring aid with us - clothes , toys, soap, baby bottles, art and craft materials. Our work also brings us closer to the community we are there to help. We fund the trip each year through fundraising, donations and sponsorship where we can.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- 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)
- Homelessness
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Overseas/developing countries
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Sensory disabilities
- Sexual orientation
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Victim support
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Disability
- General charitable purposes
- Overseas aid/famine relief
