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Lower Shankill Community Association

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £142.5K

  • Spending

    £143.3K

Charity no. 105712 Date registered. 07/12/2018

Public benefits

1) To promote the benefit of the general public in the Lower Shankill area. The direct benefits flowing from this purpose include improved wellbeing within the community, together with inter and intra community cohesion. 2) To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment. The direct benefits flowing

from this purpose include a cleaner and safer area to live and the encouragement of pride and respect for the area together with community wellbeing. 3) To advance education, the direct benefits flowing from this being increased opportunity for a socially deprived area to increase its educational potential and also educational work aimed at social identity and empowerment. 4) To relieve poverty, sickness and the aged, the direct benefits flowing from this purpose being an reduction in low income families through support for job seeking and social support, reduction of sickness through workshops on health and addiction issues. 5) 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 inhabitants, the direct benefits flowing from this purpose include social cohesion wellbeing, inter and intra community cohesion. The benefits are identified by feedback from the general community and progressive empirical evidence on the ground and through regular meetings with all relative beneficiaries. A positive response from statutory bodies, together with questionnaires both to specific courses or projects and door to door leaflet drops. All of the purposes are for the benefit of the community and nothing is of harm to the community. The beneficiaries are the entire Greater Shankill and Lower Oldpark communities of all age groups, gender and ethnicity and also the communities on both sides of the adjacent interfaces. There is no private benefit flowing from any of the purposes.

What your organisation does

The organisation carries out its purpose through a combination of paid employees and volunteers dealing with all the issues set out in the purposes section, including social regeneration, well being, community cohesion both inter and intra, youth, women's and entire community. Management structures are in place coordinating the effective operation

of the organisation.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of citizenship or community development

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Community safety/crime prevention
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Ex-offenders and prisoners
  • General public
  • Interface communities
  • Men
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Parents
  • Sexual orientation
  • Specific areas of deprivation
  • Tenants
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Victim support
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Accommodation/housing
  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Arts
  • Community development
  • Counselling/support
  • Criminal justice
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Cultural
  • Disability
  • Education/training
  • Environment/sustainable development/conservation
  • Gender
  • General charitable purposes
  • Grant making
  • Heritage/historical
  • Human rights/equality
  • Medical/health/sickness
  • Research/evaluation
  • Sport/recreation
  • Urban development
  • Volunteer development
  • Welfare/benevolent
  • Youth development

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2022

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Charitable purposes

Aims & Objects The Association is established to promote the benefit of the general public in the Lower Shankill area, without distinction of age, gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnic origin, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment, advance education, and to relieve poverty, sickness and the aged by providing or assisting in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for said inhabitants and in particular to maintain and manage a centre or centres in the area of benefit for activities promoted by the association.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name


  • 5 Trustees
  • 4 Employees
  • 10 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Lower Shankill Community Association, 21 Percy Street, Belfast, 21 Percy Street, BT13 2HS

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr Derek Hamilton
Mrs Sadie Drake
Mr Brian Watson
Mr Robert Harris
Nichola Harris

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
  • Belfast City Council