BANBRIDGE AMATEUR BOXING CLUB

Charitable purposes

The Club is established to advance amateur sport, to advance physical education and the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by the provision or assistance in the provision of facilities for the playing of boxing and other activities capable of improving health for the benefit of the public, and in particular but not exclusively children and young people aged between 10 and 18 (hereinafter called the “beneficiaries”) of the Banbridge area and its environs of Co. Down in particular but not exclusively, (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) without distinction of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability/ability, race, political, religious or other opinion by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to improve the conditions of life for the said beneficiaries in the interests of social welfare and in particular: (a) to advance physical education, health and well-being and promote amateur sport through the training, teaching, coaching, playing and competition of boxing and through such other means as the Committee think fit in accordance with the law of charity; (b) to encourage youth participation through the provision of a safe environment for children and young people to learn and participate in boxing as to develop their physical, mental and social capabilities; (c) to advance the education of the beneficiaries in health related issues, including obesity, healthy eating and physical activity by such charitable means as the Committee determine; (d) to relieve poverty by enabling the beneficiaries to participate in boxing through the provision of funds towards equipment and coaching which they would not otherwise be able to afford; (e) to promote conflict reconciliation and community harmony by the provision of opportunities to socialize with others from different cultures and communities in the area of benefit through participation in boxing; (f) to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with children and young people aged 10 to 18 years old who are socially excluded or at risk of social exclusion from becoming socially excluded in order to relieve the needs of those people who are socially excluded or at risk of social exclusion and assisting them to integrate into society; (g) to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the Committee may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity. For the purposes of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means children and young people between the ages of 10 and 18 years of age who are excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: age, ill health (physical or mental), financial hardship; race; gender; poor educational or skills attainment; substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; disability; ethnic origin; crime (either as a victim or offender), or who are within, or have experienced, the public care or penal system’).

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