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Bellanaleck Community Group

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £1.8K

  • Spending

    £0.5K

Charity no. 106758 Date registered. 16/11/2017

Public benefits

The direct benefits which flow the group’s purposes include provision of a range of social and recreational activities, development of a number of recreational and visitor facilities, mainly based within Bellanaleck village, for members of the local community living within Bellanaleck and surrounding area, members of other neighbouring communities

within County Fermanagh and visitors to the area, providing them with the opportunity to avail of activities that assist improve their social interaction, health and their conditions of life through accessing services, activities and facilities that would not normally made available to them. Examples of activities and facilities provided being Annual Christmas Party, Wildflower Guided Walks, Bat Guided Walk and Information Talk, Neighbourhood Watch Scheme, Information Signage on Local Facilities, Attractions and Businesses, Community Garden & Allotments, Loughshore Path, Community Facebook Page, Community Email Distribution List, Signposting to Education, Recreational and other Service Providers, making representation to Statutory Agencies and other Bodies on Education, Public Transport, Roads, Streetlighting, Speeding, Signage, Environment, Sports & Recreational Facilities etc. Many of these activities and provision of facilities are organised by the group linking with other statutory authorities and voluntary organisations. These benefits are demonstrated through measurement of numbers participating in activities, using the facilities and receiving, analysing and acted on of feedback from participants and users. The only private benefits flowing from our purposes are that members of Bellanaleck Community Group and their families can participate in all activities and make use all facilities, this is incidental and necessary to ensure that all members of the district can potentially benefit. There is no harm flowing from the purposes of Bellanaleck Community Group.

What your organisation does

1) making representations to statutory and voluntary bodies; 2) dissemination of information (primarily via the Group's email circulation list, Facebook page and Community noticeboard; 3) obtaining finance through grant applications and fundraising for events and projects; 4) use of volunteers; 5) initiation and implementation of projects

either unilaterally or in co-operation with other statutory or voluntary bodies.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • General public
  • Voluntary and community sector

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Community development
  • Community enterprise
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Economic development
  • Education/training
  • Environment/sustainable development/conservation
  • General charitable purposes
  • Relief of poverty
  • Research/evaluation
  • Rural development
  • Sport/recreation
  • Volunteer development
  • Welfare/benevolent

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

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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

The Group is established to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Bellanaleck and its surrounding area (hereinafter called the "area of benefit") without distinction of age, gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnic identity, disability, political or religious opinion, by association with the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to alleviate poverty and disadvantage, advance education, promote social inclusion 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 of the said inhabitants

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

Bellanaleck Community Action Group
  • 8 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

  • Tel: 028 6634 9602

Public address

  • Mr Owen James Wilson, 5 The Flagstones, Bellanaleck, Enniskillen, BT92 2ED

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr Derrick Mervyn James Graham
Mrs Caroline Avery Nicholson
Fiona Acheson
George Cathcart
Sharon Elliott
Mr George Markby Thornton
Mr Owen James Wilson
Professor Mahendra Varma

List of regions

  • Fermanagh And Omagh District Council