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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£443.2K
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Spending
£387.2K
Public benefits
Purpose 1: The advancement of education - To provide free training and educational courses and development programmes to ex-prisoners (former political prisoners) and their families in West Belfast and its environs. What benefit flows from this purpose? • Enhanced education and understanding, increased skills and knowledge base, enhanced
mobility of labour and employment capacity of ex-prisoners and family members • Improved and/or enhanced employability and economic prospects through the advancement of career and employment opportunities of ex-prisoners and family members • Increased levels of employment • Reduced stress and worry, and improved outlook of ex-prisoners and family members Purpose 2: The relief of poverty - To provide free welfare rights advice and assistance to ex-prisoners and their families in West Belfast and its environs. What benefit flows from this purpose? • Income maximization as a result of the provision of accurate, up to date information on current legislation on benefits and entitlements, and assistance to access those benefits • Improved economic and social circumstances by the maximization of full benefit and grant entitlement income • Improvement of living standards, and so quality of life of ex-prisoners and their families • Reduced stress and worry, and improved outlook of ex-prisoners and family members Purpose 3: The advancement of health - To provide free Counselling and Emotional Support to ex-prisoners and their families in West Belfast and its environs. To provide free programmes, events and activities supporting personal development, health promotion, and healthy living assistance to ex-prisoners and their families in West Belfast and its environs. What benefit flows from this purpose? The direct benefits which flow from the advance of health include; • Improved mental health and emotional well being by providing counselling and emotional support • Reduced anxieties • Reduced sense of alienation and disconnection • Reduced impact of conflict on victims of the conflict ranging across issues such as trauma, loss, and relationship difficulties Can you demonstrate this? These benefits are evidenced through feedback from beneficiaries, participation evaluation forms, the maintaining of statistical data, beneficiary files detailing achievements and progression routes, staff and management monthly and annual reports, regular independent evaluations. Is any harm or possibility of harm outweighed by the benefit? None. Who is the benefit for? The charity’s beneficiaries are ex-prisoners and their families living in West Belfast and its environs. Is there any private benefit? Trustees receive private benefit by their experience of managing an organisation providing services. However, these benefits are necessary and incidental to ensure the organisation can achieve its purposes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Tar Anall adopts a partnership approach designed to meet the expressed needs of our target group, those considered to be most affected by disadvantage and deprivation and those whose isolation is compounded as a result of the conflict. We deliver a structured co-coordinated locally based project utilising a strategic developmental approach which
encompasses the needs of our target group and delivers on actions that have been identified by local communities The project seeks to build individual, organisational and community capacity through focused interventions designed to; develop capacity to deal with the legacy of the conflict, better understand other groups and individuals previously un-encountered, built partnerships with other organisations working in similar themes and build social cohesion through joint initiatives that build skills, improve health, increase employment opportunities understanding and reconciliation. Through the staff team and the programmes offered by the project we to provide a range of educational, training, health, social awareness and personal development opportunities to enhance the personal development and confidence of republican ex-prisoners and family members who have suffered as a direct result of the conflict. This assists them in coming to terms with the impact the conflict has had on them, their family and society so that they may bring closure to their conflict experience thus enabling them to engage with and contribute to the new political dispensation.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
Who the charity helps
- Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Interface communities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Victim support
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Counselling/support
- Education/training
- Human rights/equality
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
