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This charity was removed from the register on 11 Sep 2018
Public benefits
The purpose of the Charity is to promote Urban Regeneration What Benefit flows from this purpose? The direct benefits that flow from this purpose are the physical regeneration, social and economic within deprived communities. The provision of new community facilities and public amenities, which improves social welfare of the local inhabitants.
The environmental improvements and improvement of recreational facilities for the benefit of the local community. The training and support delivered which helps the long term unemployed back into employment. Can you demonstrate this? Belfast Partnership promotes urban regeneration within North Belfast, an area of social and economic deprivation, which suffers from inner-city blight and dereliction, and from the legacy of the troubles, with segregated communities divided by peace lines and peace walls. The Partnership also works in adjacent areas suffering from similar blight, dereliction and social-economic issues. The Partnership is currently funded by BRO to facilitate Neighbourhood Renewal Partnerships within the local area. Neighbourhood Renewal Partnerships are established to regenerate and tackle social and economic problems within the most deprived areas of Northern Ireland. The Partnership facilitates Inner North Belfast, Crumlin/Ardoyne, Ballysillian /Upper Ardoyne and Greater Shankill Neighbourhood Renewal Partnerships, assisting with the development of their Neighbourhood Renewal Action Plans for the social, physical and economic regeneration of their areas, and supporting Neighbourhood Renewal Partnerships (NRPs) to deliver against these action plans and bring identified regeneration to their areas. For example, the Crumlin/ Ardoyne NRP has been involved in shaping the regeneration of Crumlin Road Gaol and Girdwood site, bringing it into productive public and community use, and providing new community facilities and shared spaces. Ballysillian Upper Ardoyne NRP in the development of a youth provision strategy, a youth safety partnership; and an environmental project to improve Ballysillian playing fields and surrounding green spaces. The Greater Shankill NRP has been involved in developing a 10 year housing strategy to improve the sustainability of the local community, and a health and wellbeing plan for the Greater Shankill. The Partnership is actively involved in facilitating Community Planning more generally within the locality, ensuring a more strategic and collaborative approach , ensuring that local communities are properly consulted and involved so that regeneration initiatives take into account local need and opinions. This includes major developments which effect the locality and local population such as the Ulster University Campus regeneration, the upgrading of York Street Interchange, Library Quarter, Royal exchange and Northside regeneration proposals. Until recently North Belfast Partnership was funded through LEAP to tackle long term unemployment within North Belfast by providing the unemployed with work related training and experience and to assist them to gain employment. The Partnership hopes to deliver similar employment related projects in future. Is any harm or possibility harm out weighted by these benefits? There is no harm. Who is the benefit for? The Community within North Belfast and surrounding areas of Northern Ireland Is there any private benefit? Is it incidental or necessary? The Company employs staff. The employment of staff is necessary to the delivery of the services and is an incidental consequence of the charitable activities of the company. Staff are managed by and accountable to the Board of Trustees. There is no private benefit to the charity trustees/ members of the board of directors. (Please contact the Charity Commission should you wish to view the remainder of this statement).
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North Belfast Partnership has a contract with the Department for Social Development's Belfast Regeneration Office to oversee and implement the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy - "People and Place" in North Belfast. Working with five Neighbourhood Renewal Partnerships, community groups and public agencies, the strategy is designed to tackle multiple
deprivation in areas of high social need. Education - Raising local educational attainment is an issue that the Partnership is increasingly involved with and is a significant area of focus for our work. Boosting educational standards and subsequently a local skills base is central to eradicating poverty in deprived communities. Employability - LEAP is our employability project funded by the European Social Fund and match funded by the Department for Social Development. Priority groups for LEAP include NEETS and the long term unemployed. Health Development - North Belfast Partnership has been working collectively with community, statutory, voluntary and private sector organisations to improve the health and well-being of people in North Belfast. The main conduit for work has been through the North Belfast Health and Well-Being Forum and over 2013/14 have continued to keep stakeholders informed of community projects, funding opportunities, procurement, current strategic and policy development. Rejuvenate Programme - The Rejuvenate programme aims to enhance and enrich the lives of older men living across North Belfast. It is a three year initiative funded by the Big Lottery Fund's "Reaching Out Connecting Older People Programme". During 2013/14 the programme delivered over 200 participant places.
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- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Ethnic minorities
- General public
- Interface communities
- Men
- Older people
- Parents
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Economic development
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- Relief of poverty
- Urban development
Charitable purposes
The Company’s objects (“Objects”) are specifically restricted to the promotion of urban regeneration and community development within North Belfast and its environs (hereinafter called the area of benefit) by working in partnership and bringing together representatives from the voluntary sector, statutory authorities, the local authority, members of the community and other parties in a common effort to advance the benefit of the inhabitants of the area of benefit, and in particular: (4.1) to relieve poverty, unemployment, and social and economic disadvantage; (4.2) to advance education. and promote the educational attainment of the local inhabitants and provide opportunities for lifelong Learning; (4.3) to provide training and retraining opportunities, particularly among the unemployed, and to provide the unemployed with work experience and promote initiatives which tackle long term unemployment; (4.4) to promote and protect the health of local inhabitants through the provision of local health and health education initiatives, and to provide programmes and initiatives which promote the health, welfare and wellbeing of older people; (4.5) to facilitate the involvement of the local community in community planning; (4.6) to maintain, improve or provide public amenities and provide or assist in the provision of recreational facilities, for the benefit of the public at large, or specifically for those who by reasons of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances, have need of such facilities; (4.7) to advance environmental conservation and improvement within the locality; (4.8) to advance conflict resolution and reconciliation and to promote public safety; (4.9) to advance the arts, culture and heritage, and to create opportunities for participation in the arts and cultural activities; (4.10) to promote and develop the local voluntary sector; (4.11) to promote social inclusion, and promote the capacity and skills of members of the community within the area of benefit, in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society; (4.12) to undertake any other charitable purpose, or purposes, for the benefit of the community, which are, or hereafter may be deemed, charitable under the law of Northern Ireland.