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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 29 Oct 2018
Public benefits
The Management Committee believe that our purpose satisfies both elements of the public benefit requirement. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include the allaying of older people's fearful perception of young people and in turn it benefits the young people to challenge the fashionable behaviours and beliefs of their community.
These benefits are demonstrated through team evaluation forms and overall feedback from all volunteers taking part in the projects and verbal feedback from the older people. Ultimately this interaction between young and old is beneficial in working towards a safer community. The beneficiaries of this purpose are young people and old people living in the greater Ballysillan area of North Belfast. A private benefit to the members of the Management Committee may arise from their participation in ongoing training in good governance and health& safety. Through this training, members of the Management Committee gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries.
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Embrace Ballysillan give teenagers in the greater Ballysillan area of North Belfast the opportunity to share their Christian faith by serving their local community. This is organised annually through a diverse range of projects such as the following:- Embrace Lock-In Event: An overnight team-building event for Embrace adult and young
volunteers. Group work sessions, team games and sharing of previous community volunteering experience. Kids Club: A four-day activity programme for children aged 4 to 11. Kids Club is led by Embrace Ballysillan adult volunteers and young people. Children enjoy a varied programme of games, arts and crafts, stories and music. Senior Citizen Care homes Project: Embrace adults and young people volunteers visit a different care home/fold on allocated afternoons. Each team interacts with Senior Citizens and disabled adults through creative crafts and music workshops. Environmental Project: Embrace adults and young people volunteers work collaboratively with the Conservation Volunteers to maintain local allotments – planting, weeding and tidying the allotment as well as learning more about the natural habitats and gaining new skills. Street-cleaning: Teams of adult and young people volunteers spend an allocated afternoon collecting litter from the streets in the greater Ballysillan area.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Older people
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
Charitable purposes
The Group has been established to promote the benefits of residents and Young People in the Greater Ballysillan area (hereinafter described as the ‘area of benefit’) without distinction of race, political, or of other opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort, to advance education and to promote facilities in the interests of social welfare, recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the condition of life for the said inhabitants with emphasis on local young people.