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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£260.7K
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Spending
£244.3K
Public benefits
The direct benefit which flows from our purpose is that many people throughout Northern Ireland and around the world are introduced to a faith that brings hope and healing to individuals and communities. The consistent numbers of those who attend our training courses, our weekly evenets and the regular feedback from our partner projects around the
world illustrate the positive impact we have on individuals and in communities where we work. Religion can be deeply divisive and can be a source of tension. The charity's beneficiaries are people living in Northern Ireland and in the countries we focus on who have an interest in the Christian faith. We also directly benefit those individuals who take part in our programmes. There is no private benefit that can be gained from our charitable work other than incidental benefit that can be gained from the learning of skills and experience that can be transferable to other spheres of work.
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Each year we train up to 50 young people per year in 6 month training courses which provide quality training on the basics of the Christian faith as well as giving these trainees the opportunity to put what they have learned into practice. In addition we influence hundreds more by holding a weekly inter-denominational worship and teaching event. In
addition to our 6 month-long courses and our weekly evening events we hold a number of weekend and week-long seminars for people to come and learn from our trainers. We build community by using our premises in Rostrevor to host monthly community fairs, concerts, weekly Parent and Toddlers mornings, weekly sewing groups for local women, and annual holiday Bible weeks for children aged 5-11. Our staff also engage in weekly detached youth work with teenagers, as well as offering our expertise to local youth groups in their centre-based youth work. We bridge sectarian divides by running a weekly inter-denominational Christian worship service that is attended by Protestants from many denominations and by Catholics, and by those at times with no faith commitment. We also run week long seminars that provide training on how to be an agent for reconciliation in places of conflict. This seminar is something we run in Northern Ireland but we also run it in Bosnia. Further we are involved in taking young Northern Irish people from a cross community background on njourney of understanding" trips to nations with a history of conflict like Israel and Palestine, Bosnia, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa. These trips prove to catalyse young people to be agents of mutual understanding and conflict resolution in their own communities. We see this as an inherent part of the Christian faith.
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- The advancement of religion
Who the charity helps
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Overseas/developing countries
- Parents
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Education/training
- General charitable purposes
- Religious activities
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
