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East Belfast Enterprise Ltd

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £752.5K

  • Spending

    £717.5K

Charity no. 103061 Date registered. 06/10/2015

Public benefits

The public benefits that flow from the advancement of community development and the promotion of urban regeneration are: (i) the creation of employment, training and work experience opportunities for residents living in economically and socially deprived areas and consequently a reduction in poverty, unemployment and hardship, leading to a better

quality of life for the beneficiaries and consequent improvements in health and well-being; (ii) enhanced knowledge about setting up and running small businesses and social enterprises resulting in increased levels of self-employment and better prospects of sustainable development; (iii) increased levels of knowledge and transferable vocational skills among employees / work experience trainees, assisting in the creation of a more educated, skilled and qualified community; (iv) a greater sense among the beneficiaries of more fulfilled and purposeful lives, resulting in a safer, more stable and cohesive community. These benefits can be evidenced in records kept by the agency of the number of jobs and work experience opportunities created and the numbers of those who have successfully completed training courses. Evidence can also be found in independent evaluations of programmes delivered by East Belfast Enterprise and the activities of enterprise agencies carried out by funding bodies and in community surveys of living standards and attitudes. Some private benefit is obtained by the owners of small businesses who rent units on favourable terms, but this is ancillary to the main purpose and is greatly outweighed by the gains in public benefit. No harm arises from any of these purposes.

What your organisation does

East Belfast Enterprise offers, on favourable terms, a variety of workshop units at our site on Albertbridge Road and office accommodation at the CityEast Business Centre. A variety of meeting facilities, training rooms and an IT suite are available for hire to both businesses and community and voluntary organisations. East Belfast Enterprise

offers a range of business start-up and business growth programmes to support individuals to explore self-employment and start and grow businesses. Many of those that the charity assists are from marginalised and under-represented groups in society, including young young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and removed from the labour market, unemployed people and female entrepreneurs. The Charity also delivers support through the Small Business Start-up loan fund to provide access to accessible finance for those wishing to start-up a business, who have no other access to capital. In addition there are business clinics, informal advice and mentoring and opportunities to network with other business owners and ad hoc fundraising events to support local charities.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • General public
  • Unemployed/low income

How the charity works

  • Economic development
  • Education/training
  • Urban development

This display is a broad summary of the charity’s financial information. For a full understanding of the charity’s finances, the reader should view the PDF accounts and reports under the Documents tab above.

Income

£752.5K

Spending

£717.5K

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 December 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 December 2022

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 December 2021

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

The Charity’s objects (“Objects”) are specifically restricted to the following: The promotion for the public benefit of urban regeneration within East Belfast and its environs (the ‘area of benefit’) being an area of social and economic deprivation, by all or any of the following means: (a) the relief of poverty in such ways as may be thought fit; (b) the relief of unemployment in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment; (c) the advancement of education, training or retraining, particularly among unemployed people, and providing unemployed people with work experience; (d) the provision of financial assistance, technical assistance or business advice or consultancy in order to provide training and employment opportunities for unemployed people in cases of financial or other charitable need through help: (i) in setting up their own business, or (ii) to existing businesses; (e) the creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of workspace, buildings, and/or land for use on favourable terms.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 6 Trustees
  • 6 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mr Jonathan Mcalpin, East Belfast Enterprise, City East, 72 Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 1GW

Trustee board

Trustee
Mervyn Hempton
Duncan Graham
Mrs Nicola Bothwell
Mr Jason Hempton
Gareth
Beverley

List of regions

  • Belfast City Council
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