Street Soccer NI

Charitable purposes

The Association is established to promote social inclusion, relieve poverty, hardship and unemployment, advance amateur sport and promote the benefit and wellbeing of of the inhabitants and in particular individuals who are homeless and those at risk of social exclusion (hereinafter called the “beneficiaries”) resident in Northern Ireland and in particular but not exclusively the Greater Belfast area (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) without distinction of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability/ability, race, political, religious or other opinion by associating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to promote social inclusion through the medium of a five-a-side amateur football league and improve the conditions of life for the said beneficiaries in the interests of social welfare and in particular: (a) to promote social inclusion for the public benefit among the beneficiaries through the provision of the means to participate in healthy recreation by the provision or assistance in the provision of facilities and equipment for the coaching, playing and competition of football and access support services to relieve their needs and assist them to integrate into society; (b) to relieve poverty and unemployment by the promotion, facilitation and organisation of adequate, accessible and quality programmes of vocational and educational training, capacity building, information and support in an effort to acquire skills and training to assist the beneficiaries in obtaining new skills, qualifications, employment or practical work experience and thereby assisting in developing independent living skills and self-confidence of such beneficiaries; (c) to relieve poverty by enabling the beneficiaries to participate in football through the provision of funds towards equipment, facilities and coaching which they would not otherwise be able to afford; (d) to promote the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the beneficiaries through the provision of advice, support,, training, prevention projects, information, practical advice and assistance in an effort to promote their physical, mental and personal capacities so that their conditions of life may be improved. For the purposes of this article ‘socially excluded’ means people who are excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: homelessness, unemployment; financial hardship; race; poor educational or skills attainment; substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; disability; sexuality, ethnic origin; or who are within, or have experienced, the public care or penal system.

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