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This charity was removed from the register on 15 Mar 2019
Public benefits
Purpose 1: To provide financial support to young people (aged under 18). This is a wide-ranging purpose, from which many groups have benefitted and continue to benefit. These groups include: - Pre-school, playgroups, nursery schools and primary schools, which reach out to the community for financial support to purchase teaching aids and equipment
to further the learning of the children in their care - Children’s Charity Groups set up to tend to the needs of child from abroad. These groups include The Romanian Appeal Helpline whose members spend their summer holidays in Romania: a. carrying out refurbishment works to orphanages; b. providing food and clothing; and c. teaching aids – books and toys for example all of which improves the quality of life of the children in care in the orphanage Another group which we have supported is The Belarussian-Chernobyl Children’s Charity which brings children from Belarus to holiday with “host families” in Northern Ireland. A two or three week holiday in NI can extend the life expectancy of children born and living under the cloud of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - Families whose ill or incapacitated children require specialist equipment, for example motorised wheelchairs - Hospital wards/Hospices caring for sick children There is no private benefit or harm derived from this purpose. Purpose 2: To provide financial support to the hospitals and hospices in NI, caring for patients suffering from cancer. This funding is ever-increasingly sought as Government financial support decreases under austerity measures. There is no private benefit or harm derived from this purpose.
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The Aisling Foundation was set up by family and friends to commemorate the life of Aisling Rodgers from Annacloy, Downpatrick. Aisling passed away in May 1996, aged 10. Originally, the organisation was set up as The Aisling Fund. In 2002 when we decided to rename the group as The Aisling Foundation and apply for charity status from HMRC, receiving
great support from NICVA during 2003 in compiling our governing document and in submitting our application. It was at this time that we had to focus on the objects of the charity. As Aisling had been suffering from cancer for almost a year and as she was only a child when she passed away we felt it important that both these strands should be reflected in the objects or purposes of the charity. These purposes combine to contribute to the advancement of health or the saving of lives. In July 1997 we had the inaugural Aisling Golf Classic.In the first 3 or 4 years we did not pay a lot of attention to the fund-raising element. As the event grew in strength we quickly realised that "good causes" could benefit from monies raised.We turned our attention to acquiring charity status for the Aisling Foundation.It was a bit of a journey for us but we achieved this in 2003; and we ratified it at an AGM 14th November 2003. The Aisling Golf Classic has been held every year from 1997 at Downpatrick GC in late June or early July. It was at its most popular in 2006 and 2007 when between 180 and 200 golfers took part in the event. In 2007 we raised more than £5,000. However, the following year the credit crunch or recession put paid to that level of fund-raising. Since 2008 we have sometimes struggled to raise £1,000 from the Golf Classic. Nonetheless, it is still worth doing because some good cause will benefit from the monies raised At the annual prize-giving and presentation evening we present the winners of the golf competition with their prizes; and we present 2, 3, 4 or perhaps 5 beneficiaries with a share of the monies raised.
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- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
Who the charity helps
- General public
How the charity works
- Grant making
Charitable purposes
The Association is established to support by means of financial assistance any charitable project in any part of the world but especially in Northern Ireland for the relief of cancer sufferers and for the promotion of the health and social well-being of children, in the memory of Aisling Rodgers.