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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£2.0M
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Spending
£1.4M
Public benefits
We work to relieve poverty and unemployment by providing a range of services that support, encourage and enable unemployed people living in areas of high social and economic disadvantage to access training, personal and skills development, increase their employability and maximise their opportunities to enter sustainable employment and improve
their capacity for economic self-sufficiency . This benefit is demonstrated by the number of unemployed, economically inactive, workless adults and young people not in education, employment or training we support every year. Our services are voluntary, that is no person that uses our services is mandated to participate. Every year we support 2000+ people to improve their personal capacity for learning and work. This benefit is also demonstrated by the number of people we work with gaining vocationally-relevant qualifications and skills and those entering employment. This includes providing opportunities for unemployed people to improve their confidence and skills through work experience activities. We also provide technical assistance and initial business advice/consultancy and training and employment opportunities for unemployed people including business start-up support, including supporting those who are self-employed and experiencing significant hardship. We also support members of socially and economically disadvantaged communities to participate more fully in society through the provision of programmes and opportunities that promote citizenship and volunteering such as the Belfast Citizenship Education Programme and the Belfast Integration and Participation Programme which we developed and designed to promote active citizenship and volunteering. There is no perceived or actual harm arising from our organisational purpose. The beneficiaries of our purpose are members of the public; specifically including: • Unemployed, economically inactive and workless people • Lone Parents • People with disabilities • Older Workers • Young People not in education, employment or training (NEET) • Black Minority Ethnic/Migrant Workers who experience labour market disadvantage • People of Roma Culture • Irish Travellers. • People who have been made redundant or lost their jobs due changes in capability due to health conditions We also work with families where there are issues of inter-generational unemployment, poverty, ill-health and children at risk of educational disadvantage/becoming not in education employment or training on leaving school. No individual or organisation gains a private benefit from our organisational purpose.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
GEMS NI provides services and develops models of best practice in employability interventions that support long-term unemployed/economically inactive people and in particular marginalized and disadvantaged groups including lone parents, migrants, young people who are NEET, older people, people with disabilities and health conditions, who
experience disadvantage in the labour market. GEMS NI provides employability outreach support services at Neighbourhood level – providing on the ground support to those furthest from the labour market and developing local information, knowledge and skills points in areas of high social and economic disadvantage. Our Programmes: Local Employment Intermediary Service; M-Power Employability Outreach Service, Minority Ethnic Employment Support Project, Community Family Support Project, Learner Access & Engagement Programme, Co-Ment - mentoring for young people who are NEET Our aim through our work is : • To improve the potential of the unemployed and especially the long-term unemployed to gain employment in the economy generally and specially in their own areas; • To provide a structured programme of advice and support in career planning for those who are long-term unemployed; • To support specific training, education, employment and work experience opportunities for the long-term unemployed which will help to promote their integration into the labour market; • To provide additional support to facilitate participation in and benefit from education, including at primary level, for those at risk of early school leaving and under achievement leading to exclusion; • To support and develop linkages between employers, local communities and the relevant support agencies; • To enhance the capacity of local communities to participate fully in local development and to counter social exclusion
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- 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
- Adult training
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Carers
- Ethnic minorities
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- General public
- Language community
- Men
- Older people
- Parents
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Counselling/support
- Education/training
- Relief of poverty
