Overdue: 183 days
Public benefits
The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include the advancement of amateur sport and improved community life and social welfare, and the availability of recreational space for all. The group’s activities bring about improved education, health and well-being outcomes through local provision in the community, and reduced levels of social
isolation, stress and anxiety, through the provision of leisure and recreation facilities. The improved facilities and provision in leisure and sporting activity also helps brings about greater understanding and improved good / community relations. These benefits are demonstrated through feedback from beneficiaries and attendees at our events and activities using: evaluation forms, surveys, verbal feedback, and evaluation of our activities. There is no harm anticipated from this purpose. The charity’s beneficiaries are primarily the inhabitants of the rural areas of the Clogher Valley, the surrounding hinterlands within the council area of Dungannon & South Tyrone in Mid Ulster and beyond. A private benefit to Trustees may arise from our ongoing provision of leisure facilities and programmes of events and leisure and recreational activities. Through this, Trustees gain leisure activities, information, skills, and experience which are transferable to other settings, and which may benefit their own community, group or area. Our own Trustees receive information, use of facilities and activities in the same way as other beneficiaries, and are assigned facilities and activities in the same ways as other beneficiaries. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries.
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Augher Playing Fields meets once per month and is responsible for 2 fields, a total of 13 acres, 150m from Augher village. One field is of predominately agricultural use, the other is a sports field and is known as The Playing Field approximately 6 acres. The Playing Field is open to all members of the community, and is in constant and varied use.
The Playing Field consists of a full size football pitch in the centre, with a picturesque stoned pathway along the bank of the bordering River Blackwater, known as The Riverwalk. Regular users of the Playing Field include the local football club, both senior and junior teams, the pupils of the adjacent primary school, Augher Central, Clogher Valley Young Farmers Club who hold sports events, tug of war, ladies tag rugby, Augher Festival Association who use the grounds as part of their community festival, Clogher Valley Agricultural Society who hold their annual show, the largest one day show in Northern Ireland and one of the largest in Ireland, attracting up to 10,000 visitors to our grounds, and the local population of all ages who use the Playing Field for recreation. Our organisation is responsible to make sure the Playing Fields meet the requirements of all our users, through management, maintenance and planning for the future.
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- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- General public
How the charity works
- Sport/recreation
