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Status
Received: 59 days late
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Income
£39.2K
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Spending
£208.3K
Public benefits
Purpose: Larne Football Club NI promotes community participation in healthy recreation as well as social development of the players and their families by providing facilities for the playing of Association Football for the residents of Larne and its environs. Provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure-time
occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare. Public Benefit: We do this through providing a range of activities which meet the needs of local communities including coaching and playing of amateur football, organisation of activities which promote health and wellbeing and positive mental health. We engage with people from disadvantaged communities and communities with higher levels of poverty and encourage them to use our facilities at Inver Park, bringing people together and tackling sectarianism and racism, contributing to a stronger civic society. The benefit of these objectives and activities is improved health and wellbeing in people who participate, improved skills and knowledge and improved confidence and self-esteem, contributing towards a better quality of life. The activities also benefit the wider community by bringing people together from different areas impacted on by poverty, promoting better community relations and social cohesion. Harm: Potential harm caused by our activities would include injury through participating in recreation activities such as amateur football coaching that were not properly organised. Similarly, potential harm may come from our premises and stadium if they are not properly maintained and could injure members of the public. However, the risk of such harm arising is rare and the risk of any harm arising is outweighed by the overall benefit to the public. Purposes: Advance the education of children and young people through such means as the Directors think fit in accordance with the law of charity. Public Benefit: We achieve this purposes through delivering education programmes such as those involving arts, crafts and music for disadvantaged children and young people. These bring a range of benefits to children and young people including, improving participation in education, improving skills and knowledge, increasing participation in society and improving confidence and self esteem. Potential Harm: Potential harm from our activities may come from using equipment that is unsafe or undertaking activities in premises that are not fit for purpose or using tutors and volunteers who are unskilled. However, the risk of such harm arising is rare and the risk of any harm arising is outweighed by the overall benefit to the public.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Larne Football Club (NI) is a new organisation that exists to promote participation in healthy recreation and activities and promote education. It does this through: - Provision of coaching and training to promote participation in healthy recreation and sport such as playing amateur football in teams - Provision of other healthy recreation
opportunities such as dancing, keep-fit, mental health awareness and wellbeing, - Provision of quality facilities for local community members to undertake positive activities that improve their lives - Provision of talks and lectures that promote learning and education in the wider community increasing knowledge and skills - Provision of programmes of learning for children and young people such as arts and crafts and music to promote participation in learning - Fundraising activities to promote charitable aims and objectives
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of amateur sport
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Men
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Arts
- Cultural
- Education/training
- Sport/recreation
