Ardoyne Youth Enterprises

Charitable purposes

OBJECTS (4) The Company’s objects are specifically restricted to the promotion, development and support of the voluntary and community sector and inparticular those organisations offering youth services and support to children and young people, the promotion of social inclusion, the advancement of community development and the promotion of the benefit and wellbeing of children and young people aged 5 – 25 years old (hereinafter called the “beneficiaries”) resident in the Ardoyne, Marrowbone and Oldpark areas of North Belfast and their environs of Greater Belfast in particular but not exclusively (“hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) without distinction of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability/ability, race, ethnic origin, political, religious or other opinion by associating the statutory and local authorities, voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants and in particular: (a) to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of voluntary and community youth work, service and support organisations working with children and young people in the area of benefit by providing advice, information, education and training, development, support and practical assistance to such organisations and projects for the benefit of the public; (b) to act as a representative of the voluntary and community youth work, service and support organisations working with children and young people in the area of benefit in relation to government policies and legislation and in so doing promote and organise co-operation in the advancement of the above purposes and to that end bring together in council or conference representatives of voluntary agencies/organisations and statutory authorities engaged in the furtherance of any of the above purposes; (c) to carry out, promote, sponsor or support by means of financial assistance research and study into issues affecting the social welfare of children and young people in the area of benefit and the dissemination of the useful results of such research for the public benefit; (d) to promote or assist in promoting youth community capacity building programmes and projects for the beneficiaries within the area of benefit who have need of such assistance as a result of their youth, age, disability or infirmity, or social and economic circumstances, in an effort to increase the abilities, leadership skills and self-confidence of such inhabitants in the area of benefit; (e) to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with young people aged 5-25 who are socially excluded from becoming socially excluded on the grounds of their youth, unemployment, financial hardship, poverty or social and or economic position, in order to relieve the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society; (f) to identify the funding and policy needs of voluntary and community youth work, service and support organisations in the area of benefit.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

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