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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£203.7K
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Spending
£241.6K
Public benefits
The direct benefits from the MDA’s purposes are: • Residents are more informed and engaged in welfare advice and their living situation benefits from the advice and assistance they receive. The advice and assistance often leads to a better quality of life in relation to housing and benefit circumstances. • Residents directly benefit from education
and training through attainment of qualifications which helps access employment opportunities. The MDA offers support to residents seeking employment and can assist in creating CV’s, filling in job applications and preparing for interviews. The public benefit of this includes preparation techniques and confidence building which helps residents get into or return to employment. In turn, this benefits the wider area as there are more residents actively employed and this reduces levels of poverty, isolation, stress and depression. • Residents also benefit from health programmes and initiatives through raised awareness of physical and mental health issues, greater understanding of living a healthy lifestyle and an overall improvement in health. The health initiatives also provide a social opportunity for residents (for example the walking and bike clubs) which benefits the residents through reduced isolation, stress and anxiety. The benefits above can be demonstrated through the numbers of people whom have completed a range of education and training courses, and whom have subsequently gained meaningful employment as a result. In addition, the benefits can be demonstrated through the attitudes and opinions of the community as a result of a recent community survey. The MDA along with residents have organised a number of successful campaigns fighting for human rights and the advancement of citizenship. The MDA have organised the Homes Now and Save the Market campaigns involving local people, which was successful in taking a planning application through a Judicial Review. The benefits can be demonstrated through the number of successful events organised by the MDA ranging from Bingo Nights to Public Meetings, all of which is recorded and distributed through a quarterly community newsletter. There is no harm rising from the MDA's benefits. The MDA's direct beneficiaries are the inhabitants of the Market area of South Belfast, but the MDA also has beneficiaries across Inner South Belfast and Belfast as a whole. The MDA do not refuse service to any person requiring advice or assistance. We have an open door policy. There is no private benefit flowing from the MDA's purposes.
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The MDA comprises of 14 Committee Members, 4 Full Time Staff and a pool of 25-30 local volunteers. The MDA is the anchor tenant in the Market Community Centre and works with a range of local community and voluntary groups in order to carry out its purpose, including the Market Women's Group, Réalta Na Cromóige, Sure Start, Pangúr Ban, St Malachy's
Youth Centre and the Indian's Women's Group. In addition, we work with a range of statutory agencies and public bodies on a daily basis, for example Belfast City Council, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the Department for Communities etc. The four MDA staff roles are Community Development Officer, Community Regeneration Officer, Community Transformation Initiative and Inner South Belfast Neighbourhood Partnership Co-ordinator. The responsibilities of the staff members range from engagement, consultation, lobbying, advice and support, organising training and educational programmes, delivering health and well being projects, campaigning for housing, progressing the Market Regeneration Plan, organising public meetings, applying for funding for community initiatives such as summer intervention programmes, seasonal festivities and environmental projects. In addition the MDA is represented on a variety of Boards including Sure Start, the Housing Community Network, the Inner South Belfast Neighbourhood Partnership and the Cromac Regeneration Initiative, which is a cross community enterprise with the Market, Donegall Pass and the Lower Ormeau. The MDA works for the betterment of the Market area through partnership working and co-production of plans, projects and programmes with the Market residents.
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- The advancement of education
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
Who the charity helps
- Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
- Adult training
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Carers
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Ethnic minorities
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- General public
- Homelessness
- Interface communities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Sexual orientation
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Tenants
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Economic development
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- Grant making
- Heritage/historical
- Human rights/equality
- Relief of poverty
- Research/evaluation
- Urban development
- Volunteer development
- Welfare/benevolent
