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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£2.9K
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Spending
£3.1K
Public benefits
The direct benefits flowing from the advancement of education include a greater awareness amongst the beneficiaries of cultural diversity and inclusion, the strengthening of mutually respectful environments and access to programmes and opportunities which are culturally or socially based. A further benefit is affording the opportunity to young
teenagers from different religious and political backgrounds to meet and work together, sometimes for the first time. The direct benefits flowing from this purpose also include developments and increases in a range of appropriate skills, attitudes and dispositions, including teamwork, motivation and increased self-confidence, amongst the beneficiaries as well as improvements in physical, emotional and mental well-being. These skills directly lead to educational and work-based progression. Having visited Romania many of the students are able to make a career choice that they wouldn’t have previously considered. The purposes provide an opportunity for young people from different traditions in Northern Ireland to meet and work together and to relieve poverty among the poor and underprivileged in Romania. Having visited Romania the young people from Northern Ireland realise that poverty still exists in Western Europe and they are challenged to consider the existence of poverty at home. The young people return to their families and schools as more rounded citizens with an appreciation of all that they have at home. This is appreciated and acknowledged by their families and friends as well as staff and other students in their schools. The young people learn the importance of working as a team and they can transfer this skill into other facets of their life in their own communities. These benefits for both purposes can be demonstrated through first hand records and feedback, for example, young people undertaking the programme maintain a record of their week’s activities in Romania. Each evening they evaluate their activities of the day in small groups and a different person reports back to the complete group. The young people make the decisions on how the money they have raised before departure is spent. There are also regular assessments carried out on the organisation by school authorities. Our beneficiaries all receive ‘Volunteer Now’ awards. The beneficiaries are all young sixth form students from across the religious divide. There are no harms or private benefits to any unintended beneficiaries arising from the purposes. (Please contact the Charity Commission in order to view the remainder of this statement).
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
SAR aims to advance the education of Year 13 students from different religious and cultural backgrounds in Northern Ireland and Romania. We provide an opportunity for such students to fund raise together and plan a range of activities that they will undertake in Romania. The students spend a week in the city of Brasov where they work with a range
of different people who suffer from deprivation. The students work in hospitals, orphanages, clinics and a range of schools. They deliver food programmes for very poor families in a number of deprived villages. They work with the homeless and with “street children”. The students undertake all of the shopping for aid and its subsequent distribution. The aim of the programme is to bring together students from different religious backgrounds by relieving poverty and sickness among children in Romania.
... [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
- 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)
- Mental health
- Overseas/developing countries
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Human rights/equality
- Overseas aid/famine relief
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
