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Willowfield Parish Community Association

  • Income

    £288.2K

  • Spending

    £316.3K

Charity no. 103336 Date registered. 29/10/2015

Public benefits

(i) Public benefit 1.WPCA is established to relieve poverty, sickness and to promote the benefit of local inhabitants. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose are: practical support, signposting for help, monthly support groups, and the development of support systems within the community. These benefits are evidenced through feedback from

beneficiaries, government statistics, and numbers of children, young people and adults participating in programmes. We believe that this purpose will lead to no clearly identified harm. These benefits are for pre-school, primary and secondary school-aged children and young people, families living in poverty, and isolated older people - all living within the area of benefit. The charity's beneficiaries are inhabitants of Willowfield, Woodstock and The Mount and their environs. There may be private benefits from the provision of training and support, but these benefits would be incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. 2. WPCA is established to advance education for local residents, The direct benefits which flow from this purpose are: improved educational aspirations through after schools clubs, training initiatives and support. These benefits are evidenced through feedback from beneficiaries, school inspection reports, other government statistics, and increased numbers of children and young people participating in programmes. We believe that this purpose will lead to no clearly identified harm. These benefits are for pre-school, primary and secondary school-aged children and young people, and the unemployed - all living within the area of benefit. The charity's beneficiaries are inhabitants of Willowfield, Woodstock and The Mount and their environs. There may be private benefits from the provision of training and support, but these benefits would be incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries. 3. WPCA is established to improve the conditions of life for local inhabitants and in particular for Children, Teenagers, Unemployed Adults, Single Parents families, Families struggling with the impact of poverty and deprivation, the elderly and vulnerable. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose are: relief of those in need, improved standard of living; and reduced isolation for older people and increased numbers of older people using services. These benefits are evidenced through feedback from beneficiaries, other government statistics, increased numbers of families struggling with poverty and deprivation using services. We believe that this purpose will lead to no clearly identified harm. These benefits are for individuals and families living in poverty - all living within the area of benefit.

What your organisation does

WPCA was set up 12 years ago in inner east Belfast to benefit local residents; teenagers, elderly, lone parents, primary aged children, unemployed, families struggling with the impact of deprivation and poverty. The Willowfield area (straddling Woodstock & the Mount) is identified as top 10% of social deprivation. WPCA runs a variety of support

programmes; job club for unemployed adults, afterschool clubs, English language classes, sports/ healthy lifestyle kids programmes, volunteer programmes, detached youth work (schools and local streets), lifestyle and self-esteem programmes. We connect with several hundred local people each week impacted by sectarianism, social deprivation, educational underachievement, low employment opportunities.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Community safety/crime prevention
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Ex-offenders and prisoners
  • General public
  • Interface communities
  • Learning disabilities
  • Men
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Parents
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Specific areas of deprivation
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Counselling/support
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Cultural
  • Disability
  • Education/training
  • General charitable purposes
  • Playgroup/after schools
  • Relief of poverty
  • Sport/recreation
  • Volunteer development
  • Welfare/benevolent
  • Youth 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

£288.2K

Spending

£316.3K

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

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 December 2020

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

The objects of Willowfield Parish Community Association is to relieve poverty, sickness and the aged and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Willowfield, Woodstock, Lagan Village, the Mount and the surrounding area in East Belfast without distinction of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability/ability, race, political, religious or other opinion, by associating with the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and the 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, and in particular: (a) Children (Pre-school and Primary School Ages) (b) Teenagers (c) Unemployed Adults (d) Single Parent Families (e) Families struggling with poverty and deprivation (f) The elderly and vulnerable

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

WPCA
  • 8 Trustees
  • 12 Employees
  • 60 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mrs Alice Mccallum, 149A My Lady's Road, Belfast, BT6 8FE

Trustee board

Trustee
Stephen Harte
Pete Clugston
Colin Birnie
Pauline O'neill
Isobel Blair
Bill Withers
Ruth Glover
Mr Clive Atkinson

List of regions

  • Belfast City Council