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Public benefits
The Rath Mor 50+ Club operates within the Derry City Council Area and primarily offers programmes and activities for those people who are aged 50+ in the greater Creggan area of Derry as detailed below. Other people benefit from our activities as detailed below. Rath Mor 50+ Club is run by members for members and other participants. All our
committee members are over 50 and come from the group and area we operate within. Purpose of the Rath Mor 50+ club The purpose of the Rath Mor 50+ club is to promote the benefit of the Over 50s inhabitants of the area without distinction of sex, race or of political or other opinion and to help combat social isolation and to engage the Over 50 age group in social, recreational and educational pursuits in order to enhance the quality of life of participants and promote a vibrant and healthy community spirit. Rath Mor 50+ Club operates within some of the most deprived wards in Northern Ireland. Benefits We have listed below some of the benefits of our organisation and some of the examples of how these benefits apply to our participants and wider society. The prevention or relief of poverty thereby enabling over 50s to access projects, programmes, activities or services which would otherwise not be available to them for reasons of cost, accessibility, isolation or poverty. The Club also provides activities that bring agencies in to provide information on subjects such as benefits, debt, cooking on a budget, dealing with bereavement, managing finances. The club also raises funds for local charitable purposes. The advancement of education is supported by activities organised by Rath Mor 50+ Club. The club regularly organises talks and visits by a range of educational speakers on historical / heritage / cultural and other subjects. These talks and visits engage people in group activity and enable isolated people to interact with others while learning about various subjects. Rath Mor 50+ also provides learning / education and training opportunities in areas such as basic IT, First Aid, and inter-cultural learning and community relations. Many of these activities are open to the wider public. The advancement of health or the saving of lives is supported by a range of activity. Rath Mor 50+ regularly bring health professionals in to talk to participants or to talk about specific issues. For example we work with a local chemist to learn about the dangers of having or using old medicines, we also have a special box for the return of unused or unwanted medicines so these can be properly destroyed. We have talks and training on depression and dealing with bereavement / cancer / other life threatening illnesses etc. We provide first aid training and some members have completed defibrillator training. We provide a buddy service amongst participants and signpost people to other specialised services and provide support for those with cancer or other life threatening illnesses. We fundraise for causes such as the local Hospice / Cancer charities / Chest Heart and Stroke and Foyle Search and Rescue etc. These activities are both for members but also for the wider good. Our fundraising brings us into contact with everyone in the wider community and encourages greater interaction between younger people, older people ad society in general while also helping good causes. (Please contact the Charity Commission in order to view the remainder of the public benefit statement).
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We run fundraising activity for ourselves and other charities to help relieve poverty. We raise funds to subsidise or pay for activity for vulnerable and older people who cannot afford, through poverty, to otherwise access these activities. These activities fall within the following themes and bring benefits to the public in regard to health,
education, community development, community relations, culture, heritage, arts, sport, equality and rights. Our activity supports the involvement of older citizens, disabled, those suffering ill / poor mental and physical health. Our participants come from one of the most economically deprived areas in northern ireland, an area which suffers high levels of multiple deprivation and they suffer finaincial hardship and a range of other disadvantages.
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- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- 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
- General public
- Older people
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Volunteers
- Women
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Arts
- Community development
- Cultural
- Disability
- Education/training
- General charitable purposes
- Heritage/historical
- Human rights/equality
- Relief of poverty
- Sport/recreation
