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Carn Media

  • Status

    Received: 122 days late

  • Income

    £15.0K

  • Spending

    £14.2K

Charity no. 102716 Date registered. 28/10/2015

Public benefits

The public benefits flowing from the purposes of Carn Media is that people from all over Northern Ireland but particularly Mid Ulster have access to an organisation with the skills, knowledge and equipment to offer education, training are fully finished multi-media programmes including visual arts, film making, animation, printed materials and

digital arts. Communities benefit from being able to engage with suitably qualified multi-media artists who can both train local organisations or develop a finished product for a community organisation. Children with learning difficulties are individuals and groups linked to work with brain injury organisations as well as organisations linked to other forms of disability can benefit from becoming involved in workshops, training, film making, animation, and other activities which are therapeutic to individuals or groups suffering from such disabilities. The community benefits by engaging with the arts enabling people of all ages to experience and educate themselves in multi-media programmes. The benefits are measured by the number of activities undertaken by Carn Media, the number of beneficiaries attending such programmes and the feedback they provide to the Company on the social community and educational aspects of these programmes. There is no private benefit driving from the work of Carn Media apart from wages paid to the workers involved in delivering the programmes and there is no harm emanating from their work.

What your organisation does

Carn Media is a registered charity for tax purposes. It works in the community sector providing expert tuition and associated facilities and equipment for a range of multi media based programmed including visual arts, film making, animation, digital arts etc. The Company provides training and workshops to a range of community organisations and to

a range of age groups. We provide animation workshops for groups working with adults with brain injury, children with learning difficulties and various arts organisations. We work closely with local Councils; have links to the Ulster University, The Nerve Centre Derry and several local Colleges. We film social events for community groups, help them create promotional videos while at the same time initiate ongoing internet awareness and social media courses. The Company aims to fit our resources and expertise around the needs of client organisations.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Language community
  • Learning disabilities
  • Mental health
  • Parents
  • Physical disabilities
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Arts
  • Community development
  • Cultural
  • Education/training

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 28 February 2024

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 28 February 2022

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 28 February 2018

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

The purposes of Carn Media are the furtherance of education, knowledge, understanding and participation in all aspects of multi media based programmes including visual arts, film making, animation, printed materials, digital arts for the benefit of all members of the public in Northern Ireland but not exclusively (the area of benefit) and in particular to engage all members of communities and the general public in the area of benefit to develop, promote and release artistic and media materials, to provide training and workshops in all aspects of multi media production without limitation and provide access to facilities, equipment and techniques and to advance any other exclusive charitable purpose as the Directors may from time to time decide in accordance with the law of charity.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • 4 Trustees
  • 1 Employees
  • 3 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Carn Media, An Carn, 132A Tirkane Road, Maghera, County Derry, BT46 5NH

Trustee board

Trustee
Declan Devlin
Niall Okane
Claire Mulholland
Joe O'doherty

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
  • Mid Ulster District Council