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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£539.2K
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Spending
£607.4K
Public benefits
The public benefits that flow from the advancement of community development and the promotion of urban development are: (i) reduction in financial and other hardships, stress, anxiety and ill-health; (ii) the creation of employment, training and work experience opportunities for residents living in economically and socially deprived areas and
consequently a reduction in poverty, unemployment and hardship, leading to a better quality of life for the beneficiaries and consequent improvements in health and well-being; (iii) enhanced accessibility to free or affordable facilities and amenities, leading to an improvement in people’s quality of life and well-being; (iv) enhanced accessibility to health services and affordable childcare; (v) enhanced activity, engagement and participation in social activities by residents of the area of benefit, leading to an improvement in their well-being and quality of life and greater social cohesion. The beneficiaries are members of the public who live or work in the area of benefit. These benefits can be evidenced in records kept by various agencies of the number of jobs and work experience opportunities created; monitoring records kept by Ashton Centre Development; independent evaluations of the activities of enterprise agencies carried out by funding bodies and other agencies; the findings of community surveys on living standards and attitudes; and in feedback from participants and the users of ACD’s services. Some private benefit is obtained by the owners of small businesses who rent units on favourable terms, but this is ancillary to the main purpose and is greatly outweighed by the gains in public benefit. No harm arises from any of these purposes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Ashton Centre promotes physical developments as a driver for social and economic regeneration within the North Belfast area. Any profits generated by the Ashton Centre is where possible kept within the greater New Lodge community and used to further develop its facilities and services. The community is at the forefront of its delivery and with
the development of numerous sites and expansion of services the community have gained extended opening hours for service delivery, disability access, visible improvements to the physical environment. All of the mentioned purpose is to improve mental health, emotional wellbeing, connectivity, personal development, increased employment, living standards and relief of poverty.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- General public
- Unemployed/low income
How the charity works
- Economic development
- Relief of poverty
- Urban development
