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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£166.6K
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Spending
£167.9K
Public benefits
The direct benefits which flow from our purpose include: - • Young people and their families will have access to services, facilities and support at Artillery Youth Centre and Northside Educational Resource Centre. • Young Adults will gain new skills, educational qualifications, mentoring, guidance and support that will enhance their learning,
engender self-confidence and maturity and provide alternatives to risk taking behaviours. • Young people will learn how to interact positively with their peers and to make informed choices about important aspects of their lives including their education, employment choices and their role as active citizens. • The lives of young people and their families will be improved as a result of the range of programming and services offered by Artillery Youth Centre, its staff and volunteers. • Young people will learn new skills and gain new experiences that will support their transition in adulthood in a safe and supported environment. These benefits are (will be) demonstrated through an marked increase in: the engagement of young adults in the design and delivery of programmes; a reduction in rates of unemployment amongst young adults; educational attainment of children and young people; an improvement in family relationships; and the involvement of young adults in decision making processes. These benefits will be recorded through a robust process of evaluation, recordings and review with beneficiaries, staff and key partners. AYC aims to provide services primarily to young people aged between 15 and 25 and works with marginalised groups including young parents, young offenders, youth at risk and school refusers. Over the last ten years, AYC has established itself as a key innovative youth provider in the area that attracts young people that are hard to reach and which often do not engage with mainstream youth services or mainstream education. AYC also operates beyond the New Lodge area through a network of partnerships with voluntary sector organisations including the Northside Youth Safety Partnership, Youthnet, Include Youth and statutory agencies such as the BHSCT, PBNI and the Youth Justice Agency. The purposes of our charity should lead to no harm. The only private benefit flowing from this purpose is the training and experience given to volunteers and trustees who could use this experience in the furtherance of their own careers. This potential private benefit is incidental and necessary because we aim to provide the highest standard of service to young people and their families and having well trained volunteers and experienced trustees is an important facet of our quality assurance.
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Over the past10 years some key achievements for AYC are that: 95 young people completed driving lessons&62 passed their driving test 58 young people completed their emergency First Aid 246 young people participated in alternatives to violence training 24 young leaders took part in the Young Community Leaders Programme 230 young parents&248 children
took part in activities and programmes 118 residentials were completed as part of the programme 12 young people took part in an international exchange in South Africa 10 young people participated in an international programme in Slovakia 30 young adults used Artillery drop in facility on average daily during this period 1,938 young people were targeted through outreach during this period 12 Young people completed their OCR in Computers 21 young people participated in Web design workshops 1,055 young people have participated in consultation events 219 young people attended careers events at Artillery 243 young people have taken part in 5 GCSE revision schools. 12 young people have gained childcare qualifications 6 members of staff have undertaken JNC youth worker training 85 young women have participated in the personal safety alarm project 71 youth projects have been supported by Artillery Youth Bank. 44 young people have acted as grant assessors for the Youth Bank. AYC has been involved in 10 major partnership programmes 6 anti-bullying programmes have been delivered with 165 primary school children looking at peer pressure, internet safety&alternatives to bullying. 326 young people took part in training aimed at raising awareness of domestic violence 120 young women aged 17&18 years participated in safety initiative that piloted personal safety alarms with those young women who were socialising in the City Centre for the first time. As part of this programme we addressed issues around healthy relationships & personal safety. Artillery has delivered OCN training to 1748 young people throughout NI
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- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- Interface communities
- Parents
- Unemployed/low income
- Volunteers
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community enterprise
- Education/training
- Gender
- Grant making
- Relief of poverty
- Research/evaluation
- Sport/recreation
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
