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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£249.0K
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Spending
£239.8K
Public benefits
St Teresa's Youth Centre Purpose The youth centre is established to provide, maintain and promote facilities and activities of a social, spiritual educational and recreational nature with the object of improving the conditions of life of children and young people without distinction of sex, political, religious or other opinion. What benefit
flows from this purpose? The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include an increase in social skills, improvement in emotional well-being, improved positive educational outcomes and increased spiritual development in the lives of local young people. This purpose will also provide improvements to overall community life. Can you demonstrate this? The above benefits will be evidenced through a number of evaluative means including: recordings and observations of staff members; other qualitative data from parents, teachers, and community representatives; quantitative data from programme and project evaluations; data from other sources including other service providers both statutory and non-statutory. Is any harm or possibility of harm outweighed by the benefit? There is no identifiable harm to any person through the pursuit of the above organisational purpose. Public Element Who is the benefit for? The beneficiaries of this purpose are children and young people as defined by Government policy in Northern Ireland living in Belfast. Is there any private benefit? Is it incidental or necessary? A private benefit is that gained by a Trustee who has a child who makes use of the facilities and activities of the youth centre. The child of the Trustee applies to be part of the youth centre and is given access in the same way as other beneficiaries. This benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. Volunteers may gain an increased sense of well-being through their involvement in the centre, however this benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure benefit is provided to beneficiaries. Staff may gain opportunities to be involved in educational or recreational activities. This benefit is also incidental and necessary for the work of the organisation to take place.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
St. Teresa’s Youth Centre is a voluntary full-time Parish based youth provider, which for over forty years has been providing a service for the young people of the parish of St. Teresa’s and from much further afield. The underlying ethos of our Centre is the personal, social and spiritual development of young people and the promotion of
empowerment, acceptance and understanding of others, capacity building and social action. The Youth Centre was formed in 1973, initially operating in two mobile huts situated in the grounds of the primary school and the use of the school’s sports hall. In 1970 the parochial hall was destroyed by fire and its shell was taken over by the army for a short period until 1976. Building on the Youth Centre on this site began in 1976 and the centre was officially opened on November 5th 1978. Since then our Youth Centre has established itself as a Centre of Excellence in the provision of aesthetic and creative activities and martial arts. The Youth Centre boasts the provision of Ballet Classes, Irish Dancing Classes, Speech and Drama Classes, Disco Dancing Classes, the provision of Band Practice Rooms and Karate Classes. St. Teresa’s Youth Centre currently works with approximately 600 young people, between the ages of four to twenty five years. The Youth Centre has one full-time Senior Youth Worker, funded by the Belfast Education and Library Board, a Full Time Project Worker, seven part-time workers and twelve volunteers who staff the Centre and facilitate the programmes and projects. The staff team, with the help and support of the Management Committee, work tirelessly to meet the ever-changing needs of the Centre’s members and the community.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- 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
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Playgroup/after schools
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
