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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£11.6K
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Spending
£16.1K
Public benefits
The direct benefit that flows from our organisation’s purposes are that homeless people and rough sleepers in Northern Ireland are provided with the necessities of life, medical advice, and with practical and emotional support in order to survive and move off the streets, relieving their poverty, anxiety, poor health and distress. Homeless persons
and others at risk of homelessness are supported to access temporary accommodation, medical and addiction services, housing, and other support and facilities which relieve their need and are assisted to tackle the underlying issues effecting their lives such as mental health and addiction. Persons in need on low incomes are supplied with clothing, toys, books, furniture and other household accessories, safe electrical and white goods, free or at low cost in order to relieve their poverty and hardship. Persons in need are supplied with hot food or with food parcels which relieve their immediate food poverty and distress. Persons on low incomes and poor circumstances are supported to take up offers of housing and provided with furniture and other household necessities to furnish their homes. Excess funds from the sale of donated goods are provided to the charity Hope for Ethiopia, to assist with its work relieving the conditions of children and young people in poverty in Africa. These benefits are demonstrated through feedback from beneficiaries and partner agencies and data collected of activities, and the annual accounts and reports of the organisation. There is no harm. The charity’s beneficiaries are person within Northern Ireland who are in poverty and financial hardship and distress and currently also poor children in Africa through the organisation’s financial support of the charity Hope for Ethiopia. The charity is run by volunteers who receive no private benefit from the Charity. Beneficiaries of the charity only benefit personally to the extent that it relieves their charitable need in accordance with the objects of the charity.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
The Charity has a weekly presence on the streets of Belfast, offering practical and emotional support and hot food to homeless persons, and providing sleeping bags, warm clothes personal care products etc. Volunteers help those in need of medical assistance or transport to A & E, they also put homeless people in contact with local service providers
and organisations offering temporary accommodation and housing. The Charity has formative plans to expand its work with the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. It is hoped to open a centre where the homeless, and those living in inadequate accommodation can get a hot meal and access to shower facilities, support, advice and other services such as hairdressing, medical care and treatment for addiction. The charity hopes also to open a house outside Belfast where homeless persons are provided with temporary accommodation and treatment for addiction and mental health issues away from their normal pressures and triggers. The charity runs a charity shop in an income deprived area of Belfast and provides clothing, furniture and other household accessories to those in need, collecting, testing second-hand household electrical and white goods and to ensure they are safe to pass on, and making them available at an affordable cost or free to persons living on low incomes not only locally in Belfast but throughout Northern Ireland. The Charity helps vulnerable and needy persons who were homeless, or in temporary accommodation and now have an offer on housing, who need help to furnish and move into their accommodation. The Charity on occasion also supplies food parcels to those in dire circumstances who are in food poverty.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- 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
- Homelessness
- Interface communities
- Overseas/developing countries
How the charity works
- Cross-border/cross-community
- General charitable purposes
- Overseas aid/famine relief
- Relief of poverty
