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Sticky Fingers Arts

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £200.2K

  • Spending

    £219.2K

Charity no. 101275 Date registered. 11/12/2014

Public benefits

The direct benefits flowing from Sticky Fingers Arts’ purposes are to provide, increase and promote positive participation of children, young and older people’s in the Arts by providing free front-line services to children, young and older people from disadvantaged communities across Northern Ireland, by encouraging others in the promotion of

educational and recreational programmes designed to engage children, young and older people in the Arts, by involving the parents and carers of our beneficiaries to become involved in the Art as a medium to enable them to contribute to the development of our beneficiaries, by training those who educate, work and train our beneficiaries so good practice is promoted within the public and the private sectors and the Art sector and by developing education materials and resources to further enhance the Art. The direct benefits flowing from Sticky Fingers Arts’ purposes are also to provide, increase and promote quality environmental arts projects for children, young and older people, from disadvantaged communities across Northern Ireland, by providing free outdoor environmental programmes and projects, raising awareness of the natural and built environment. Our programmes such as the Giant Liair, Arts in the Wild are engaging children, young and older people in a rural environment. Finally, by engaging in Art international partnerships, we ensure that the children, young and older people are benefiting from the best international programmes and the latest research available in the field of the Arts. Our programmes are based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (article 31) and work to provide support to children, young and older people from disadvantaged backgrounds to provide them with the opportunity to reach their full potential combating poverty and building confidence at community and individual level. Direct benefits also include the provision of arts and creative play opportunities for children, young and older people from disadvantaged backgrounds and communities that are excluded from having access to these essential programmes. Benefits are evident as it is documented that Sticky Fingers Arts is the only arts’ organisation providing these free services to all children, young and older people. In particular, we offer a free drop-in service available 6 days/week, all year round, for children, young and older people. The benefits are quantified and documented, over 150,000 children, young people and older people (from all backgrounds and without differentiation on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, politic, religion or sex) have had access to the Arts through our services in Northern Ireland. The risk of harm deriving from the purposes of our Charity is very low as we adhere to all the statutory and non-statutory necessary checks in order to safeguard our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and trustees alike. The only private benefit that we can foresee is that some of our trustees, employees and volunteers have children, young people and older relatives that may incidentally beneficiate from our programmes. This is incidental as the children, young people and older relatives of our trustees, employees and volunteers do not have preferential treatments and will access our programmes like any other member of any community in Northern Ireland.

What your organisation does

Sticky Fingers provide front-line services allowing children from disadvantaged communities from across Northern Ireland and children with disabilities and special needs access to quality arts and creative play. Our programmes are based on the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child and work to provide support to children from

disadvantaged backgrounds to have the opportunity to reach their full potential combating poverty and building confidence at community and individual level. We provide arts and creative play opportunities through hands-on programme, a major international festival and other major events.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science

Who the charity helps

  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Learning disabilities
  • Parents
  • Physical disabilities
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Sensory disabilities
  • Travellers
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Arts
  • Community development
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Cultural
  • Disability
  • Playgroup/after schools
  • Youth development

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2022

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Charitable purposes

1. Sticky Fingers Arts is established to: A. i) advance education and promote the arts for the benefit of children “the beneficiaries” primarily but not exclusively in Northern Ireland the “area of benefit” and in particular; ii) advance education and promote the arts for the benefit of young people “the beneficiaries” primarily but not exclusively in Northern Ireland the “area of benefit” and in particular; iii) advance education and promote the arts for the benefit of the wider community (including older people) “the beneficiaries” primarily but not exclusively in Northern Ireland the “area of benefit” and in particular; B. promote and assist others in the promotion of educational and recreational programmes designed to engage children, young people and the wider community (including older people) in the arts, and especially those in need as a result of adverse social, economic, geographical or cultural circumstances, conflict, or a result of disability or infirmity; C. educate and train parents or carers of children, young people and the wider community (including older people) so as to enable them to contribute to the educational and creative development of children, young people and of the wider community (including old people); D. educate and train adults who work with children, young people and the wider community (including older people) in an effort to promote good practice amongst practitioners in the private and public sector and the arts. E. promote the development of educational materials and resources in furtherance of the above projects; F. provide and promote positive artistic development for children, young people and for the wider community (including older people); G. i) promote and provide quality environmental arts projects within communities across Northern Ireland and the border counties, to engage children, young people and the wider community (including older people) in the recognition of spaces and waste ground; ii) provide opportunities for children, young people and for the wider community (including older people) to take the lead in the development of their cities and communities by working with local government, business and the arts to create positive regeneration of their local area by engaging in creative and arts based activity and events; iii) raise awareness of the natural and built environment and instil a sense of responsibility among children, young people and for the wider community (including older people) to preserve and enhance local heritage and landscape; iv) provide the opportunity for children, young people and for the wider community (including older people) from Northern Ireland and the border counties to engage in quality, age appropriate arts and environmental projects; F. foster international relationships and children’s and young people’s rights to promote and lobby for statutory agencies at all levels to adhere to UNICEF policies.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 6 Trustees
  • 5 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Sticky Fingers Arts, Sticky Fingers, The Imaginarium, 10 Upper Edward Street, Newry, Co Down, BT35 6AX

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr David Hanna
Mrs Helena Young
Mr Cathal King
Mr Daniel Gebski
Mr Brian Cleland
Ms Annemarie Mc Gourty

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
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