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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£340.7K
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Spending
£308.1K
Public benefits
The purpose of CRIS is to actively contribute to the building of a shared and reconciled society in Northern Ireland by supporting peace building programmes and activities through the medium of schools and their local communities. What benefits flow from this purpose? - The benefits that flow from the above purpose are: increased sharing between
schools and the communities they serve; the development and enhancing of capacity to engage in the development of a shared society at civic, institutional, community and individual levels; increased sharing of physical, financial, intellectual and human resources between schools; improved understanding and perception of other identities; the development of new approaches and skills for schools based community relations and reconciliation programmes. Can you demonstrate this? - These benefits will be evidenced through: baselining and auditing; utilising ongoing multi-format participant evaluation tools and approaches (including paper based, multimedia documentation and focus groups); independent evaluation of our services carried out by funders and external agents; registration of beneficiaries (individual and institutional); ongoing project, programme and annual reporting; use of mapping tools to track changes, progress and milestones; continued production of qualitative and quantitative reports. Is any harm or possibility of harm outweighed by the benefit? - CRIS does not anticipate any harm to occur as a result of this purpose. All activities related to this purpose are meticulously planned, risk assessed and delivered with contextual sensitivity. Who is the benefit for? - It is intended that this purpose will benefit the sections of the public who engage with CRIS which include: School Staff (Management, Teachers, Learning Assistants, Supervisors and other support staff) Pupils (both mainstream and special) Parents and carers of pupils Schools and wider communities who participate in long term strategic work who are located in and around the Crumlin Road Interface (Greater Shankill and Greater Ardoyne), Antrim, Randalstown and Newtownabbey. Schools and wider communities who participate in short term projects delivered by CRIS in various locations across Northern Ireland Wider society as a result of shared learning Is there any private benefit? Is it incidental or necessary? - No
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
CRIS’ work today primarily involves: • Supporting schools in a ‘whole school community’ approach to promoting community / good relations through engagement with local community stakeholders (including school leadership, staff teams, families, pupils, other partner schools and wider community organisations and agencies). • Supporting specific
collaboration partnerships within area based models for schools across all sectors (Nursery through to Post Primary) including building commitments to sharing resources, expertise, with an underlying strategy for peacebuilding. • Developing curriculum and programmes to support school communities to embed community relations at the heart of the work they do. • Working directly with parents (and other adult family members) to explore the values and role of community/ good relations in order to affect attitudinal change within communities. • Supporting teacher training colleges to build student capacity and confidence in the area of community/ good relations and Sharing in Education with specific programmes around anti-sectarianism, anti-racism and other forms of bias. CRIS also support colleges through the provision of inputs exploring models and case studies of sharing and collaboration across the education spectrum (based on CRIS practice). • CRIS advocates for the roles of schools as critical instruments in the process of peace-building and shares its experience and practice to influence policy makers in the areas of community relations and education. • In order to achieve project work across a wide ranging portfolio of works, CRIS seek out relevant grants from funding bodies and Trusts to enable specific work to take place as agreed in consultation with school leadership teams, staff and parents/ carers and other adult participants. All grant making is carried out by CRIS staff and committee.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- 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
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Interface communities
- Parents
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Education/training
