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Mallusk Community Action Group

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £5.4K

  • Spending

    £5.7K

Charity no. 104205 Date registered. 02/12/2015

Public benefits

Assistance in providing, the provision of social services, educational and recreational facilities for the people of Mallusk/Hydepark. The benefit which flows from this purpose will be enhanced knowledge and understanding through access to services, the training and information provided, and increased health and wellbeing. The benefits are

demonstrated through the results achieved, regular feedback from those and evaluation of the services and training provided. This purpose does not lead to harm. The benefit is for the inhabitants of Hydepark/Malluks and its surrounding districts, specifically those who have or will attend the training and courses on offer. The benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to all beneficiaries. To provide and secure the provision of welfare rights advice and information and refer those in need to the relevant agencies. The benefit which flows from this purpose includes improvement in the conditions for the life of the seniors and the community. It leads to increased participation, in activities and events to ensure an increase in skill, enjoyment and social interaction, improvement in mental and physical health and wellbeing. This is demonstrated through having access to resources, equipment which would not otherwise be available. The purpose will not lead to harm. The benefit is for all resedents of Mallusk/Hydepark and its surrounding districts. This is demonstrated through having an active community organisation. The benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to all beneficiaries. Promoting and carrying our research, investigations and surveys. The purpose which flows is to increase awareness levels. The purpose will not lead to harm. The benefit is for Hydepark and Mallusk and its surrounding area and is incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to all beneficiaries. This is demonstrated through the partnership and networking within the community and other bodies to promote research, talks and training courses. The purpose will not lead to harm. The benefit is for all the residents of Hydepark, Mallusk and its surrounding area and is incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to all beneficiaries. Advancement in education. The benefit which flows from this purpose includes seeking and raising funds for resources, lectures, meetings, classes, courses and exhibitions for the group to reach out to the community inhabitants and build essential links. This is demonstrated through having an active community development group that works in partnership with the community and other bodies. The public benefit will be enhanced knowledge and understanding to all in the area through receiving information and experience. The benefits are demonstrated through the results achieved and advancement of knowledge, regular feedback from those and evaluation of the services provided. This purpose does not lead to harm. The benefit is for the community of Mallusk and Hydepark, those specifically those who have or will attend the courses, classes offered.

What your organisation does

MCAG have a management committee elected each year by local residents at the annual AGM. In addition to this there is a pool of additional volunteers who assist when required, at events etc. There is no paid staff and all the work is voluntary. Mallusk Community Action Group (MCAG) was formed in 2008 in response to residents’ concerns around the

environmental damage, road safety, village cleanliness, anti-social behaviour and absence of community facilities in the Village. Mallusk had suffered from the effects of the Landfill site in the village and the increased industrialisation of the area. Key objectives are: • Creating a sense of community. • Having clean and safe roads for visitors and residents • Implementing a Village Improvement Scheme and a Heritage Programme • Put in place the infrastructure to improve community cohesion and establish a community meeting facility for events and activities Since forming MCAG has established a community base at the Academy Sports Club premises and lobbied successfully and secured grants for a range of environmental improvements in the Village; established a quarterly newsletter circulated to 600 households; secured several grants to run annual programmes of community activities; installed a village heritage trail and published a number of heritage publications including ‘Our Thoughts Go Back’ and the ‘Life and Works of William Morrison: the Bard of Mallusk’; we have achieved a Green Flag award for Mallusk cemetery in conjunction with Newtownabbey Council

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • General public

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Education/training
  • Environment/sustainable development/conservation
  • Rural development
  • Volunteer development

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2022

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Charitable purposes

Mallusk Community Action Group is established to advance education, to promote the conservation and improvement of the physical and natural environment for the public benefit, to relieve the aged and to promote the benefit and well being of the community resident in the Mallusk and Hydepark areas and their environs of County Antrim, Northern Ireland without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and 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 inhabitants and in particular: - to encourage public interest in, and, secure the conservation, protection, development and improvement of features of natural, historic or public interest within the area of benefit; - to advance education by promoting public awareness of the natural and social history, geography, folklore, architectural and cultural heritage of the area of benefit and its inhabitants; - to provide or to assist in the provision of recreational facilities for the beneficiaries who by reason of their youth, age, infirmity, disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances have need of such facilities so as to develop their physical, mental and emotional capacities so that their conditions of life may be improved; - to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the committee, may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • 5 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mr Adam Hyland, 7 Highgate Close, Newtownabbey, BT36 4WE

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr Colin Buick
Mr Thomas Wylie
Mr Thomas Ivan Anderson
Mrs Gillian Anderson-Lee
Adam

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
  • Antrim And Newtownabbey Borough Council
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