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Community Intercultural Programme

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £282.7K

  • Spending

    £279.5K

Charity no. 102018 Date registered. 21/01/2016

Public benefits

The benefits flowing from the purpose of Community Intercultural Programme are: 1. Provision of advocacy, advice and support services to ethnic minority communities. 2. Provision of public awareness of exploitation and right based issues through training and participation 3. Provision of targeted family intervention support programmes 4. Build

the capacity of ethnic minority children and young people through personal development initiatives 5. Promotion of cultural diversity and integration between diverse communities 6. Networking and partnership building on equality issues These benefits can be demonstrated through the existence of the support services and by written reports delivered as part of the annual report. The beneficiaries of this purpose are people from diverse ethnic communities in the ABC council area and its environs. There is no harm flowing from the purpose. The only private benefit flowing from this purpose is the training element under the capacity building programme as well as public awareness from, the exploitation and rights based programme and this is incidental and necessary because it is to the promotion of the organisation's purposes and/or furtherance of the organisation's objectives.

What your organisation does

CIP promotes the integration of new communities via the delivery of the following programmes 1.Advice and Advovacy Service. Clients from diverse community backgrounds are assisted by Inclusion Officers & volunteers who help with matters such as, Rights, Employment, Housing, Entitlements, Hate Crime, Education & Social Exclusion issues 2. Family

Support Programme. Families are supported via Intercultural Parent & Toddler groups, physical activity sessions, health and wellbeing projects and signposted to external services. 3. Intercultural Youth Programme. Children and young people from diverse communities benefit from Intercultural After School Clubs, Drop-In Youth Provision and a range of Personal Development projects. 4. Good Relations Programme. Includes the delivery of Cultural Diversity workshops, intercultural events, training and cross community youth initiatives. 5. CIP is represents ethnic communities interests on a series of local and regional forums and committees on which the group lobbys for improved service provision.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Asylum seekers/refugees
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Community safety/crime prevention
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Interface communities
  • Language community
  • Parents
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Victim support
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Community development
  • Cultural
  • Education/training
  • General charitable purposes
  • Human rights/equality
  • Playgroup/after schools
  • Sport/recreation
  • Volunteer development
  • Youth development

This display is a broad summary of the charity’s financial information. For a full understanding of the charity’s finances, the reader should view the PDF accounts and reports under the Documents tab above.

Income

£282.7K

Spending

£279.5K

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2022

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

CIP is established:- 1. For the promotion of cultural diversity, integration, community cohesion and to relieve need amongst the minority ethnic inhabitants of Armagh, Banbridge, Craigavon and their environs; 2. For the advancement of human rights through the reduction & prevention of the exploitation of vulnerable people; 3. For the advancement of education through the delivery of personal development programmes to meet the current and emerging needs of children and young people; These objectives will be pursued solely through activities deemed by law to be exclusively charitable; in particular these activities may include: the relief of poverty; the preservation and protection of health; the provision of opportunities for recreation and leisure time occupation and the delivery of programmes in a common setting insofar as these meet the current and emerging needs of the beneficiaries and are in pursuance of the above purposes.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

CIP
  • 9 Trustees
  • 12 Employees
  • 40 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mr Stephen Smith, Cip Centre, 7 Foundry Street, Portadown, Craigavon, County Armagh, BT63 5AB

Trustee board

Trustee
Paul Burrows
Mr Andrew Mccreery
Mr Gordon Woolsey
Mr Alfredo Monteiro
Mrs Elisabte Gomes
Miss Anastazja Wisniewska
Mrs Laura Wheatley
Mr Stephen Smith
Richie

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
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