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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 5 Sep 2018
Public benefits
In relation to all of the purposes of The Ballintoy & District Community Association, the direct benefits can include; the relief of poverty, the relief of sickness, the promotion of benefits to the aged both socially and educationally. The Ballintoy & District Community Association will do this by providing events, social activities and activities
that enable both young and old to get out and about within their own community and in so doing help to reduce social and rural isolation. Other activities e.g. social outings such as the annual trip to the Balmoral Show and ‘When the Country comes to Town’ event in Portadown and a Christmas shopping trip to Lisburn, all serve to encourage further community participation to provide a better quality of life, health and wellbeing for service users, including those with both physical and mental disabilities. In addition, The Ballintoy & District Community Association will involve members of the Association, volunteers, carers and the wider community in a common effort to tackle poverty, deprivation, and relief of sickness, loneliness and associated problems such as social and rural isolation. These benefits can be demonstrated through consultation from members of the Ballintoy & District Community Association and through other feedback and evaluation exercises from other groups and participating members. The Ballintoy & District Community Association will also be working with other Public Bodies at a strategic level and also collaborating with other local voluntary and community groups to ensure that ongoing community problems both on an individual and collective basis are taken on board. This will be achieved through programmes and projects like the Community Pharmacy project, Keep Fit Programmes and Crafting Classes all of which support the work of the Association and provide a mutual benefit for all. In relation to all of the above, the beneficiaries of The Ballintoy & District Community Association are all the people living in and around Ballintoy and its environs. As Ballintoy is within the main tourist route on the North Antrim Coast, many visitors including those from within Northern Ireland travel through the village en route to the Giant’s Causeway and the town of Ballycastle. In particular but not exclusive of others, those attending the activities may include; people facing difficulties, the bereaved, the depressed, the elderly, young people and carers. There are no harms resulting from any of the purposes. No person connected with this organisation gains a private benefit which is more than incidental to carrying out the purposes.
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The Ballintoy & District Community Association provide the provision of social services, educational, environmental and recreational facilities and practical assistance for elderly and disabled people within the area of benefit; provide or secure the provision of welfare rights advice and information and refer those in need of professional
assistance to the relevant agencies; provide, maintain and equip or assist in the provision, maintenance and equipment of premises and facilities designed to carry out the objects of the Association; promote and carry out, or assist in promoting and carrying out research, surveys and investigations and publish the useful results thereof; organise or assist in organising meetings, lectures, classes and exhibitions and publish or assist in publishing reports, periodicals, recordings, books or other documents or information; obtain collect and receive money by way of grants, donations, bequests, legacies or other lawful method, provided that the Association may not engage in any form of permanent trading.
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- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- General public
- Men
- Older people
- Voluntary and community sector
- Women
How the charity works
- Community development
- Education/training
- Heritage/historical
- Rural development
Charitable purposes
The Association is established to: 2.1 relieve poverty, sickness and the aged and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Ballintoy and district and its environs (hereinafter described as “the area of benefit”) without distinction of age, gender, race, political, religious or other opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education, 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; 2.2 to establish or to secure the establishment of a Community Centre (hereinafter called "the Centre") and to maintain and manage or to co-operate with any local statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a Centre for activities promoted by the Association and its constituent bodies in furtherance of the above objects.