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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£250.1K
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Spending
£241.6K
Public benefits
The direct benefits which flow from the purpose include lower levels of poverty; increased educational opportunities for residents; providing recreational and leisure facilities and programmes; improving the quality of life of people in the Irish Street area; and improved health outcomes. Lower levels of poverty can be demonstrated by the
improvement in the beneficiaries financial income, access to benefit checks, developing volunteering and employ-ability skills training and employment levels. Increased educational opportunities can be demonstrated by the numbers of benefiting from training or numbers achieving each of the educational milestones, for example, achieving 5 GCSE's (Grade A-C). Providing recreational and leisure facilities and programmes: tracking number of people who use our current community facilities, such numbers attending various programmes and events run by the organisation and who use the facilities managed by the group e.g. the Multi-Use Games Area and new Community Green Space. Improved health outcomes and quality of life can be demonstrated by the number of people affected by mental health issues and those diagnosed with long term health conditions and diseases. We do not believe that any harm will come as a result of our charity. The charities beneficiaries are the residents of Irish Street and the wider Waterside area of Londonderry. The only private benefit flowing from the purpose is the payment of wages to staff, and this is incidental and necessary in order to achieve the objectives of Irish Street Youth and Community Association.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Irish Street Community Association runs programmes which target community regeneration through a multi-generational, social, educational and recreational approach to implementing achievable and sustainable community development principles in Irish Street (an area which suffers from high socioeconomic deprivation). Programmes and training will be
tailored to suit local needs, in order to facilitate a higher level of community participation and ownership, through targeting the most marginalised within the community, and addressing their fear or inability to avail of such provision elsewhere. We also provide training courses and volunteering opportunities from within the local community, which helps to build skills, capacity and increase employability. Irish Street Community and Youth Association also work in partnership with other local organisations and service providers (including cross-community working) on a range of ongoing and one off projects / programmes. By doing so, we can signpost residents to other services which are available in the local area, be it in the community, statutory or private sector.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- 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
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Ethnic minorities
- General public
- Interface communities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Parents
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Tenants
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Arts
- Community development
- Counselling/support
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Disability
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- General charitable purposes
- Grant making
- Medical/health/sickness
- Playgroup/after schools
- Relief of poverty
- Research/evaluation
- Urban development
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
