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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£470.6K
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Spending
£438.7K
Public benefits
The charity’s objects are for the public benefit and are related to the following: (a) To relieve financial hardship and poverty and to promote and preserve good health by the provision of funds, goods or services of any kind, including emergency food, clothing and household goods. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include
improvement of health, reduction of anxiety and stress associated with a poverty lifestyle. These benefits can be demonstrated by feedback from referring partner agencies, continued monitoring of service user circumstances and ongoing evaluation of our service delivery. (b) To benefit the residents of the Greater Belfast Area and beyond without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include increased understanding and awareness of local poverty issues, reduction in poverty driven isolation and an increase in opportunity for social interaction. These benefits can be demonstrated by provision of educational presentations in schools, churches etc., ongoing training of volunteers and provision of facilities for multiple social and educational programmes ran by ourselves and third party organisations. The charity’s beneficiaries are those living within the Greater Belfast Area lacking the ability to provide themselves with the basic essentials of life as referred to us by our partners and those in receipt of an increased awareness of local poverty issues through our educational presentations and training sessions. The purposes of the charity may lead to harm by producing an over dependency on charitable provision however through ongoing monitoring of individual service user access the risk of harm is outweighed by the benefits. The only private benefit flowing from the purposes is ongoing training in relevant fields accessible to the trustees and this is incidental and necessary because it directly impacts their ability to serve within the charity.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Storehouse (NI) provides the basic essentials of life to those referred to our services through the provision of emergency food bags, clothing, furniture and household goods. We also provide education to raise awareness of local poverty issues within schools and church/community groups. We provide training for our volunteers to increase their
awareness of poverty issues and social welfare systems. We actively seek to offer our facility to third party organisations for the provision of education, training and social connection.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- 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
- Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Ethnic minorities
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- General public
- Homelessness
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Counselling/support
- Education/training
- Relief of poverty
- Volunteer development
