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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£1.3K
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Spending
£5.4K
Public benefits
Mixed marriage couples and their extended families will receive pastoral care, information and support, as well as access to an office/focal point of contact and the expertise of experienced NIMMA members. This will enable them to prepare for being in a mixed marriage or raising children in a mixed marriage, help couples decide what is best for
them and their families and help to alleviate suffering that can occur in these circumstances. The Northern Ireland public will have a better-educated and balanced view of mixed marriage, while local school-age teenagers will learn about the realities of mixed marriage vis-a-vis the conflict and the reconciliation process. The shared present of mixed marriage can be a blueprint for the shared future envisaged in Northern Ireland governmental initiatives. NIMMA will continue to help to break down segregation, in the wider sense of bringing individuals, couples, extended families and communities together and also through its work in promoting and assisting integrated education and its consultative role in the provision of shared social housing. NIMMA promotes tolerance, accommodation and compromise through its pastoral work, media strategy, educational policy and its use of customised publications aimed at our young people as essential building blocks for a truly shared future. These benefits are (will be) demonstrated through feedback from users, by evaluating enquiry numbers and website activity and press/media response to initiatives. There is no harm. The charity’s beneficiaries are mixed marriage couples and their extended families, but also the general public in terms of increased knowledge and awareness. The only private benefit flowing from this purpose, and it is incidental, is that those who provide the pastoral care involved will gain in experience and expertise on the subject of mixed marriage.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
NIMMA is a volunteer-based group, formed in 1974, that has spent more than 40 years fostering reconciliation on the island of Ireland. NIMMA's main aim is to create tolerance and acceptance of mixed marriage and, ideally, to reach a time of reconciliation when an organisation like NIMMA is no longer required. To that end; a) It provides
information, advice and support to couples either in or contemplating mixed marriage b) It gives talks to a range of community and educational groups, as well as universities, colleges and schools and distributes educational publications relating to mixed marriage c) It produces a bi-monthly newsletter, which is distributed widely throughout the island of Ireland to press, clergy, educationalists, politicians, opinion formers and the general public d) It collates and presents reports to church bodies, networks with cross-community groups and youth umbrella groups such as Youth Action e) It represents Northern Ireland at international conferences f) It lobbies for extended integrated education through its partnership with the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE) g) It lobbies for an increase in shared social housing through its partnership with the Northern Ireland Department of Social Development NIMMA is perceived as an agent for social change in Northern Ireland, is the first port of call for local media on topics such as reconciliation and advocates mixed marriage as a 'normal thing' in a healthy society and one that can provide a blueprint for a truly shared future. It work of reconciliation impacts on thousands of people on this island through pastoral care that radiates through extended families, an educational strategy that targets secondary school pupils and teachers and management of the media.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
Who the charity helps
- General public
- Parents
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Education/training
