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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£189.8K
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Spending
£207.0K
Public benefits
St. Oliver Plunkett Football Club used sport as a means to address a range of social issues. The public benefit flowing from our set purposes are as follows. Purpose 1: To promote the participation of young people in healthy recreation, particularly local inhabitants of Lenadoon and its surrounding areas, without reference to sex, race, creed or
social background, by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities for the playing of football and other sports. The public benefit flowing from purpose 1 includes improving levels of health of those that participate in our activities. The statistical evidence show's that health is severely deprived within the electoral wards. The benefit flowing from this purpose includes both physical health in terms of aerobic capacity as well as mental and emotional health through participation in team games, social interaction and communicating with others. Purpose 2: To advance the physical education of young people through coaching activities and providing facilities for the game of football and other sports and recreational activities so as to develop their physical, social and mental capabilities to enable them to grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. We provide public benefit by increasing skills of participants, including fundamental movement skills such as hand eye coordination, throwing, catching, running and jumping. Our coaches aim to develop an ethos of respect, teamwork and dedication all of which contribute to the social development of individuals that participate. Learning these skill's at a young age can make a major difference of their outlook as they grow older. These are transferable skills that can be applied in other sporting, social, educational or economic settings later in life. Purpose 3: To provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of young people who have need for such facilities by reason of their youth, poverty or social or economic circumstances or other disadvantage or in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life. These young people are disadvantaged by poverty and we seek to use sport as an alternative to other, potentially negative or criminal pursuits, particularly for those aged 13-17. This also includes the provision of training and education that may result in employment prospects. Purpose 4: To promote equality and diversity and religious and racial harmony; to promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined. All the above programmes will aim to break down barriers and attitudes of local inhabitants to accept all cultures and religions creating a harmonious society within West Belfast. There is no harm flowing from the purposes. The charity’s beneficiaries are the general public. There is no private benefit from our purposes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Our voluntary management committee and coaches work hard to provide a service which benefits youth members of society in West Belfast through the medium of Sport. We have identified in our community audit as sections of the community that we perhaps overlook or could be more involved with. St. Oliver Plunkett has over 450 members who take part
weekly; approximately we also reach out to 100 additional users who avail of our service intermittently. We have 31 male and female teams who are organised and managed by 90 dedicated volunteers. We hold all our activities from hired facilities throughout the Belfast City Council Area; although our base is at Lenadoon Park we also hire facilities at Colin Park Leisure Centre, Rathmore Grammar and Brooke Park. This is due to large demand for more services to be provided. Our activities are as follows: Mini Soccer Programme – Saturday morning’s for 4-11 year old children – open to all and takes place for 2 hours at Lenadoon Park. Youth Section – St. Oliver Plunkett FC have 5 girls’ teams who take part in junior leagues. The teams are made up of girls aged between from 6-17 year old. We have 37 male youth teams aged from 5-19 year olds. These teams take part in home and away matches throughout Northern Ireland. Seasonal Events – Each year St. Oliver Plunkett hold a number of seasonal programmes at summer and Easter time. We also hold an annual Jackie Maxwell memorial tournament (St. Oliver Plunkett Founder) where we invite 16 youth teams from throughout Belfast to take part in a cross community event in Lenadoon. We proactively try to run intervention programmes which include midnight soccer programmes and additional activities on weekend’s to address reduce crime and anti social behaviour amongst at risk males. We have established a number of cross community relationships with other organisations throughout Belfast as a result of our activities.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of amateur sport
- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
- 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
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Ethnic minorities
- Interface communities
- Older people
- Volunteers
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Sport/recreation
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
