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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 9 May 2018
Public benefits
The public benefit the beneficiaries receive include better relations with their neighbours and members of the community. They will live in a more peaceful community when they have the correct knowledge and an understanding of their neighbours. They will receive information, knowledge and skills that they can pass on to other members of their
family and friends. They gain an accreditation from some courses and training that will enhance their opportunities of employment. This in turn will reduce poverty to that individual. Information provided for individuals will enable them to apply for the correct benefits, service providers or specialist help they need and this will reduce illness and risk to health. People are involved in community activities and feel they are less excluded or isolated. The beneficiaries will sign attendance forms to all classes and evaluation forms are completed at the end to find out if any follow up training is required or if the information was useful to them and how. Follow up courses are sometimes arranged where funding is available, the need is there and it is relevant to the organisational purposes. There is no private benefit or harm.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Castlederg Youth Forum works with people from the area and Border areas from the age of 6 to adulthood and the older generations. We work to promote a more peaceful community, better health and reduce the effects of poverty for its inhabitants. Castlederg Youth Forum was founded in 2004 to help integrate a very sectarian divided community, through
education, training, workshops activities and a Drop In facility. The issue of young people and older members of the community being very divided was an issue as well so inter generational programmes became part of our remit. We provide educational workshops in life skills, cooking on a budget, arts, crafts, diversity, equality, leadership, churches, cultures, institutions, health issues, positive mental health, food hygiene, IT, to name but some. We also take participants on historical trips, residential trips and have a Drop In facility where people can come together and find out more about one another in a safe supervised, neutral environment. We run fundraising activities and also apply to statutory bodies for funding. We have a youth committee with young people who represent either schools, clubs, institutions, areas, bus routes, churches or disabilities. They take part in the decision making for the Youth Forum and are represented on our management committee. We work closely with PSNI, especially when they need our assistance for a minor who has become involved in anti social behaviour, sometimes sectarian or racist, schools, churches, council,Housing Executive, Youth Justice and Health Promotion. We work alongside other community groups to enhance the work being delivered in the area for the most benefit to the members of the public.
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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 the arts, culture, heritage or science
- 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
- Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Ethnic minorities
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- General public
- Interface communities
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Parents
- Sensory disabilities
- Sexual orientation
- 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
- Arts
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Education/training
- General charitable purposes
- Grant making
- Heritage/historical
- Human rights/equality
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
Charitable purposes
The Forum is established to: help provide ways of understanding differences, relieve poverty, segregation, sickness and the problems faced by young people and adults and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Castlederg and district area of Co. Tyrone, the border areas and its environs (hereinafter described as "the area of benefit") without distinction of sex, race, disability, political, age, sexual orientation, religious or other opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education, integration, understanding and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.