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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£15.6K
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Spending
£16.0K
Public benefits
The direct benefits flowing from relief of poverty include: • Potential income increase by providing accurate current information on benefits and entitlements to ensure that all available benefits have been received. • To give assistance to access those benefits. • Improvement of living standards and quality of life. • Reduced stress and worry and
improved outlook. The direct benefits flowing from providing free training and educational courses and development programmes include: • Enhanced education and understanding to enhance employment capacity. • Increased skills and knowledge base. • Improved and/or enhanced employability and economic prospects through the advancement of career and employment opportunities. • Reduced stress and worry and improved outlook. • Increased levels of employment. The direct benefits flowing from advancement of health include: • Improved mental health and emotional well-being. • By providing counselling and emotional support. • By providing a network of referral pathways and working partnerships with all relevant health, statutory and community support services. • Reduced anxieties and a reduced sense of alienation and disconnection. • Improved social and family reintegration. • Increased awareness of health issues and healthy living. • Enhanced confidence and self-esteem. • Enhanced personal development. • Reduced stress and worry, and improved outlook. The direct benefits flowing from the provision of programmes, events and activities in our premises at Barcroft Community Garden and Men’s Shed include: • Improved mental health and emotional well-being. • Reduced anxieties and a reduced sense of social isolation and disconnection. • Increased awareness of health issues and healthy living. • Enhanced confidence, self-esteem and improved outlook. • Enhanced personal development. • Increased skills and knowledge. The benefits from relief of poverty among ex-prisoners and their families in Newry City are demonstrated through reviews, conversations with, and feedback from, our beneficiaries. The benefits from free training and educational courses and development programmes among ex-prisoners and their families in Newry City are demonstrated through analysis of activities, conversations with, and feedback from, our beneficiaries. The benefits from advancement of health among ex-prisoners and their families are demonstrated through evaluations, conversations with, and feedback from, our beneficiaries. The benefits from the provision of programmes, events and activities in our premises at Barcroft Community Garden and Men’s Shed are demonstrated through assessments, conversations with, and feedback from, our beneficiaries. There is no harm in the purpose to relieve poverty among ex-prisoners and their families in Newry City. There is no harm in the purpose of providing free training and educational courses and development programmes for ex-prisoners and their families in Newry City. There is no harm in the purpose of advancement of health among ex-prisoners and their families in Newry City. In our Community Garden any potential harm arising from the use of garden or workshop tools are minimised by good practice, proper safety precautions and the normal presence of at least one accredited first aider. We also have full insurance cover for all members and visitors to the garden should anything unforeseen occur. While there is the rare possibility of an accident, we believe the benefits outweigh the potential harm. The beneficiaries of the relief of poverty are ex-prisoners and their families living in Newry City. The beneficiaries of the provision of free training and educational courses and development programmes are ex-prisoners and their families in Newry City. The beneficiaries of the advancement of health are ex-prisoners and their families in Newry City. The beneficiaries of the provision of programmes, events and activities in our premises at Barcroft Community Garden and Men’s Shed is anyone in the Newry City area without distinction of age, gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnic origin, political or religious opinion who wants to take part in Garden or Men’s Shed activities. The private benefits can be accrued by trustees arising from the relief of poverty, the provision of training and educational courses, the advancement of health and the provision of programmes, events and activities in our Community Garden and Men’s Shed are experience of managing an organisation, enhanced skills and increased knowledge and organisational abilities.These benefits are necessary and incidental to ensure the organisation can achieve its purposes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
• We relieve poverty among ex-prisoners and their families by providing free welfare rights’ advice and assistance in Newry City. • We advance education through the provision of free training and educational courses and development programmes for ex-prisoners and their families in the Newry area. • We improve quality of health of the republican
ex-prisoner community and their families by providing or assist in providing counselling and emotional support services and the provision of free programmes, events and activities in the Newry area. • We maintain and develop Barcroft Community Garden and Men’s Shed for the benefit of all in the community through the provision of events and activities.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
Who the charity helps
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- General public
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Counselling/support
- Education/training
- Welfare/benevolent
