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North Belfast Senior Citizens Forum

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £62.5K

  • Spending

    £63.8K

Charity no. 103639 Date registered. 28/08/2015

Public benefits

The public benefits that flow from this purpose are decreased financial and social exclusion through our benefits outreach service. Increased access to educational services through provision of classes, especially IT, which lessens the digital divide. Reducing the risk of poverty through increasing older people’s access to statutory and community

anti-poverty programmes. Improving the health and well-being of older people through facilitation of healthy ageing programmes. Reducing social isolation through promotion of social activities for older people. These benefits are evidenced through the numbers of older people accessing our services, feedback from clients and the amount of money claimed by our advice service users. The benefiaries of our purpose are elderly people within the North Belfast area. There is no harm or private benefit from our purpose.

What your organisation does

North Belfast Senior Citizens Forum (NBSCF) is a organisation seeking to improve the lives of older people in North Belfast. We run an outreach benefits advice service targeting older people and their carers in their own homes. We will also run outreach advice clinics in community and other centres. We also represent the interests of older people

in North Belfast to a range of voluntary and statutory providers. We survey our members regularly and follow up their concerns with bodies such as the Belfast healthe and Social Care Trust and the NI Housing Executive. We run a range of healthy ageing acivities to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in North Belfast. We run computer/IT classes for older people in North Belfast. We hope to address the increasing digital divide through this means.

The charity’s classifications

  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • Older people

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Community development
  • Relief of poverty

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

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2019

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

The objects of the Company shall be to promote the relief of elderly people in any manner which now or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable within the North Belfast Area.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

NBSCF
  • 8 Trustees
  • 2 Employees
  • 3 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mr Olaf Hvattum, 151 Cliftonville Road, Belfast, BT14 6JR

Trustee board

Trustee
Mrs Mary Bernadette Morgan
Mrs Mary Kelly
Mr William Johnston
Ms Diane Weiner
Ms Isabelle Mills
Ms Rosemary Mccloskey
Mr Michael Fenton
Mr John Farrell

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
  • Belfast City Council