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Status
Received: 122 days late
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Income
£0.0K
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Spending
£1.0K
Public benefits
The benefit from providing a community development approach to education, training and support ensures that the process is underpinned by a set of values of equality, anti-discrimination, social justice, collective action, community empowerment and working and learning together. It is inclusive of all the community encouraging positive harmonious
relationships, thus impacting on a range of community and individual skills, well-being, self-confidence and encouraging life-long learning. The Killowen area is located in the Churchlands Ward of Coleraine and is recognised as an area of high deprivation with myriad health and well-being and societal issues linked to low educational attainment and poverty. There is no risk or harm to this benefit. The benefit which flows from working in partnership with a range of local, statutory, community and voluntary agencies is ensuring community needs are being met through a process of listening and consultation. This approach also ensures that the services provided are at a grass roots level. The added value of working in partnership minimises duplication of services, programmes and projects ensuring quality, transparency and an integral approach to service provision. There is no risk or harm to this benefit. By providing learning and community meeting environments, people of all ages and abilities are benefiting through improvements in learning, education and socialisation. This is evident from community feedback and reports from the people attending events, courses, programmes and projects. There is no risk or harm to this benefit. The private benefit that occurs as a result of delivering the public benefits outlined above is that, from time to time, we may have to pay, for example, a training officer or facilitator; or use resources to buy materials from public suppliers or provide subsistence or travel to our volunteers and private gain will occur, however without using funding or resources in this way we could not attain the intended public benefit of our objectives. There is no private benefit accrued to any of our trustees or volunteers as everyone is treated the same and has equal access to all of our support and services. If conflict of interest arises it is discussed and addressed as part of our trustee meetings to ensure that no private benefit happens. Where volunteers acquire training to assist them in the delivery of our objectives, this training may also enhance their employment or volunteering opportunities elsewhere but this gain is necessary for us to be able to deliver our objectives and be compliant with legislation including Access NI and Health and Safety for example. How we prove our benefit is through record keeping of those who attend our events, volunteer in our various activities and attend our social and youth events. We provide newsletters and flyers, utilise the local press for publicity and take photographs and also collect monitoring information when we access public funds for our activities. No harm arises from the delivery of our public benefit as all of our activities are well-thought out, planned and risk assessed and all necessary insurances, checks and policies are in place and adhered to under the supervision of the Trustees of the organisation.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
The Association is established to relieve poverty, sickness and the aged and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Killowen area and its environs in Killowen of Coleraine (hereinafter called the area of benefit) without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, political or religious
opinion, by associating with statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance e3ducation and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants and in particular to cooperate with any local authority in the maintenance of a centre or centres in the are of benefit for activities promoted by the association.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- 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
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Men
- Parents
- Unemployed/low income
- Volunteers
- Women
How the charity works
- Community development
