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Loughgiel Community Association Ltd

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £518.0K

  • Spending

    £630.6K

Charity no. 103422 Date registered. 01/10/2015

Public benefits

The benefits which flow from purpose A include improved health and well being, improved access to services and facilities, reduction in social isolation, enhanced capacity of local community and enhanced employment opportunities. These can be demonstrated through the increase in number of services, events and activities provided; general feedback

and evaluations taken at events, community surveys and general government statistics. There is no harm associated. The Charity’s beneficiaries are the inhabitants of the Parish of Loughgiel and surrounding area, as well as organisations with an interest in the area. Any private benefit is incidental in terms of enhanced health and well being, access to services and facilities, capacity of community and enhanced employment opportunities. The benefits which flow from purpose B include improved cooperation between voluntary, statutory and community organisations, improved access to services and facilities, enhanced knowledge and capacity of community to address needs, enhanced health and well being, reduction of social isolation. These can be demonstrated through increase in provision of services and facilities that would otherwise not be available, including childcare, luncheon club, youth club, training courses and general community activities, through general feedback, evaluations and community surveys, and level of cooperation with other voluntary and statutory organisations to improve access to services and facilities. There is no harm associated. The Charity’s beneficiaries are the inhabitants of the Parish of Loughgiel and surrounding area, as well as organisations with an interest in the area. Any private benefit is incidental in terms of enhanced health and well being, capacity of community and enhanced employment opportunities and improved access to services and facilities.

What your organisation does

General community development organisation. Provide a community centre with units for rental. Organise events and activities such as luncheon club, youth club, support to pensioners to live independently in their own home, community allotments, training courses such as computer, cookery, basic food hygiene, basic first aid. Organise community

survey to address community needs and deliver services to address needs identified. Support other organisations such as Council, and other support organisations to provide outreach facilities in this rurally isolated community.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • 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
  • General public
  • Older people
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Community development
  • Community enterprise
  • Education/training
  • Environment/sustainable development/conservation
  • General charitable purposes
  • Rural development
  • Volunteer development
  • 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

£518.0K

Spending

£630.6K

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2019

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

To relieve poverty, sickness and the aged and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Parishes of Loughgiel, Co Antrim and environs without distinction of age, sex, race, political, religious or other opinion, by association 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 of other leisure time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants. To establish or to secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain and manage or to cooperate with any local statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the Association.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 5 Trustees
  • 24 Employees
  • 12 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mr Seamus Gerard Mccloskey, Loughgiel Community Association, 38 Lough Road, Loughgiel, Ballymena, BT44 9JN

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr Seamus Gerard Mccloskey
Mr Sean Mcnaughton
Mrs Denise Dobbin
Mrs Aileen Mcgarry
Mrs Noelle Laverty

List of regions

  • Causeway Coast And Glens District Council
  • Mid And East Antrim Borough Council