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Rasharkin Women's Group

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £41.1K

  • Spending

    £39.3K

Charity no. 103526 Date registered. 19/11/2015

Public benefits

The direct benefits which flow from our purpose include enhanced health and wellbeing and access to services and facilities, increased skills and opportunities for rurally isolated women and older people and therefore reduction in social isolation, relief of poverty through provision of affordable and accessible childcare to allow women to seek

employment, improved linking and collaboration with other organisations for the benefit of the women of Rasharkin and surrounding area. This can be demonstrated through the provision of additional services and facilities such as affordable childcare, physical activity programmes, debt advice, luncheon club and general feedback and evaluations taken from these events and activities, as well as community surveys. There is no harm associated. The Charity’s beneficiaries are women and older people living in the Rasharkin and surrounding area. Any private benefit is incidental in terms of enhanced health and wellbeing, enhanced skills and knowledge and access to services and facilities to relieve poverty and rural isolation.

What your organisation does

Access and maintain and equip premises and facilities where women in the area of benefit can benefit from the objects of the group. Provision of training, after schools club, classes, information and raising awareness on health issues, luncheon club.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • 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)
  • Older people
  • Parents
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Women

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Education/training
  • Gender
  • Playgroup/after schools
  • Relief of poverty
  • Welfare/benevolent

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2022

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Charitable purposes

The group is established to relieve poverty, to advance education and to preserve and protect the health of women in Rasharkin and its environs regardless of age, sexuality, nationality, ethnic origin, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and the said women in a common effort 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 women.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

RWG
  • 6 Trustees
  • 2 Employees
  • 6 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mrs Anne Hardy, Rasharkin Womens Group, 22-23 Bamford Park, Rasharkin, Ballymena, County Antrim, BT44 8RX

Trustee board

Trustee
Mrs Anne Hardy
Mrs Veronica Mckinley
Mrs Caroline Carey
Mrs Joan Belton
Mrs Corinne Doherty
Mrs Siobhan Sterling

List of regions

  • Causeway Coast And Glens District Council