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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£55.6K
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Spending
£52.5K
Public benefits
The direct benefits flowing from our purposes are that there is a safe and neutral environment for players and coaches to train, play football. Participants benefit from healthier lifestyles, wellbeing and social inclusion through sport. There is improvement in physical and emotional health and well-being as a result of participation in football
and other recreational football. This includes raised esteem and confidence, improved aerobic capacity and development of physical skills. Other benefits include the enhancement of the health and well-being, relationships and capacity of the community across other areas which we identify as having value and meet with the community and sporting ethos of the club. Further benefits include: there is encouragement for participation in sporting and recreational activities; providing members with suitable competition; assisting members to improve their personal sporting standards; organising football locally and providing equal opportunities for successful participation by all sections of the community. Benefits identified are demonstrated through the evaluation of our activities, programmes and services through players, club and AGM meetings and with other stakeholders. This includes gathering feedback via a range of means such as 1-2-1 interviews, group discussions or focus groups, comment cards, surveys and questionnaires around the benefits of activity provided. We also monitor participant numbers within sessions, growth in membership, retention into other programmes etc. to further reference the value and impact of our provision and to develop beneficial future services. Our purposes do not give rise to any harm. The beneficiaries of our purposes are people living in the Greater Newcastle area and across Mournes DEA catchment area in South Down There is no private benefit flowing from our purposes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Newcastle Football Club is a community based club, providing Amateur football club for people in Newcastle, County Down since 1980. We have a number of youth teams within our youth setup playing in the Downpatrick Youth League, Lisburn League and three senior teams playing in the Northern Amateur Football League as well as Newcastle and District
league. Our youth teams range from under 8s mini soccer up to under 18s. Teams train twice a week with qualified coaches and play matches on Saturdays and occasionally mid-week games in spring and summer. Our premier senior team play in the 5th tier of Northern Ireland football i.e. 1A Amateur League and the Reserves and Development Squad senior teams play in the Newcastle and District league. Newcastle FC currently use Shimna Integrated College and the council owned facilities in Donard Park for matches. Newcastle Football Club provide leisure activities for the residents of Newcastle and the wider district council area of Newry, Mourne and Down. We facilitate community activities, training and workshops, functions and community events. We are a cross community club, drawing members and participants from all communities and religious and political backgrounds. Through football related activities, we aim to teach values such as fair play, sportsmanship, commitment and discipline as well as the core sporting skills. Sport and physical activity are important and can lead to a healthy lifestyles. We aim to combat social exclusion, deprivation and inequality among young people in our community. While retaining our focus on football, we aim to have a wide reaching benefit in our community services to cater for a wide range of needs. We strive to increase partnership between Newcastle FC, local residents, schools, sports clubs and voluntary organisations to ensure opportunities are created to participate in social, recreational and educational activities.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of amateur sport
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Interface communities
- Men
- Mental health
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Education/training
- Sport/recreation
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
