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Holywell Trust

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £457.7K

  • Spending

    £488.1K

Charity no. 105831 Date registered. 05/07/2017

Public benefits

Through the advancement of education Holywell Trust will enhance the knowledge and understanding of individuals participating in our training courses. The Trust will also, through providing facilities in the interests of social welfare, increase the sense of community pride, community activism and the development and leisure opportunities for

individuals availing of our facilities and services. These benefits will be measured through formal and informal feedback and evaluation processes with individual participants and service users. No harm flows from these purposes. The Trust’s beneficiaries are the inhabitants of the city of Derry~Londonderry and urban areas and its environs in the North West of Northern Ireland. Local businesses and identified experts that supply services may benefit privately from these purposes but these benefits are incidental and necessary aspects of delivering the Trust’s services.

What your organisation does

Holywell Trust is a community relations and community development initiative established in 1988 to foster better relationships and social transformation in the North West and across Northern Ireland. Through a range of groundbreaking approaches and methodologies (partnership working, shared space provision, community projects, conferences and

seminars, podcasts, arts projects, heritage projects and publications), Holywell has contributed significantly to the tackling of contested space and the building of shared and respected places. At the heart of our work is a praxis of ethical leadership that works towards partnership and collaboration, relationship building, cross-community and cross-cultural exploration and dialogue, policy formation, building the capacity of organisations and individuals concerned with peace building and social transformation.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • General public
  • Interface communities
  • Victim support
  • Voluntary and community sector

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Community enterprise
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Education/training
  • Heritage/historical
  • Research/evaluation
  • Urban development

This display is a broad summary of the charity’s financial information. For a full understanding of the charity’s finances, the reader should view the PDF accounts and reports under the Documents tab above.

Income

£457.7K

Spending

£488.1K

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2022

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

The Trust is established to advance education and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Derry/Londonderry city and urban area and its environs of the North West of Northern Ireland (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) 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: a) to maintain and manage or co-operate with any local authority in the maintenance of a centre or centres in the area of benefit for activities promoted by the Trust (hereinafter called “the Centre”); b) to advance education concerning and carry out research into local history by collecting and recording information, in particular forming an archive of the works of the area of benefit; c) to raise awareness and provide education among the community about environmental issues and conduct programmes to protect the environment; d) the recruitment, selection and sending out of volunteers for short term service within the area of benefit.

Governing document

Trust Deed or Declaration of Trust

Other name


  • 8 Trustees
  • 7 Employees
  • 1 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mr Gerard Deane, Holywell Trust, 10-12 Bishop Street, Derry/Londonderry, BT48 6PW

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr Danny Bryce
Miss Jacqueline Mccolgan
Mrs Maureen Hetherington
Mrs Catherine Cooke
Mr Seamus Farrell
Miss Roisin Mclaughlin
Mr Barney Mcguigan
Georgia O'kane

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
  • Derry City And Strabane District Council
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