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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£11.6M
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Spending
£11.0M
Public benefits
The direct benefits flowing from the organisation's purpose are the promotion and development of high quality, evidence-informed early childhood services for young children, their families and communities. This is towards the organisation's vision of and for children being: Strong, competent and visible in their communities; Physically and
emotionally healthy; Eager and able to learn; and Respectful of difference. For more on this please see: http://www.early-years.org/about-us/. Early Years is firmly committed to outcomes based accountability, performance measurement and planning approaches and also to setting bold and courageous goals for the organisation, that put evidence and improving long-term outcomes at the heart of our agenda, throughout strategic and service planning and other organisational modelling processes. Based on logical framework modelling and goals set through four yearly strategic planning processes Early Years evidences and assesses related benefits through Corporate Balanced Scorecard methods which outline each objective and associated initiatives and outcomes as contained in annual report documents. Versions of the Early Years Strategic Plan 2012-16 and Annual Report documents can be located at: http://www.early-years.org/about-us/resources.php. The organisation is also committed to ongoing participative evaluation approaches of services offered and annually seeks stakeholder feedback using service and more project specific surveys. It is not believed that there is any harm arising from the above purpose. Children aged 0-18 years (or under the age of 21 years where a young person is a disabled person within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995), their parents or carers, and those who work with, or provide services to, them in Northern Ireland and in any other part of the world. Early Years is unaware of any private benefit following from the above purpose.
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In particular the 'Objects' section of the organisation's Articles further outlines the following activities linked with the specified purpose as including: to provide information, advice, support services and training to the beneficiaries; to support and develop projects, either alone or in partnership with statutory or voluntary organisations,
which encourage the beneficiaries to understand and provide for the needs of children; to encourage, develop and support the formation of playgroups, parent and toddler groups, full daycare groups, crèches and other such groups; to encourage the study of the needs of children and to stimulate and educate the public interest in this and other related educational and social fields; to act as a representative for the beneficiaries in relation to government policies and legislation; to administer programmes of funding to support any or all of the charitable purposes of the Company; and to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the directors may, from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity.
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- The advancement of education
Who the charity helps
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Ethnic minorities
- Interface communities
- Language community
- Learning disabilities
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Sensory disabilities
- Travellers
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Disability
- Education/training
- Human rights/equality
- Playgroup/after schools
- Research/evaluation
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
