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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£93.1K
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Spending
£104.7K
Public benefits
The direct benefits that flow from the charity’s purpose are as follows: For children and young people: storytelling promotes literacy, improves talking and listening skills, develops confidence, enables young people to experience traditional storytelling, promotes library use, encourages a love of stories, enhances storytelling skills and improves
creative writing. For older people: storytelling for residents in nursing homes, folds and sheltered dwellings, luncheon clubs and active age groups gives voice to those whose voices are often not heard, linking past, present and future, providing relaxing entertainment, stimulating memory, encouraging conversation, creating social interaction, valuing ordinary people’s stories and encouraging intergenerational connections. Storytelling encourages cross-community awareness and understanding, crosses boundaries of disability, age, gender and culture, supports the concept of a shared society, fosters cultural expression, fosters an interest in local stories and reduces loneliness and isolation. It provides a social activity, encourages sharing of personal stories, stimulates realisation of common narratives and facilitates reminiscence. For prisoners and their families, storytelling provides training for prisoners on interaction with their families, facilitates opportunities for prisoners and their families to share stories together, supports social interaction and promotes good mental health via a non-threatening activity. And for Refugees and homeless people, storytelling and story-making encourages people to share their own stories and values the stories of every individual whatever their background or culture promoting social inclusion and encouraging community participation. The benefits can be demonstrated by the fact that in the last 3 years storytelling activity has been carried out in all 96 libraries across Northern Ireland. The charity’s engagement with the various audiences outlined above have been developed in response to the demand from these audiences. There is considerable consultation and preparation to assess the needs of the beneficiaries and each session is delivered to the needs of the audiences. In the last 3 years over 18,241 People listened to stories told by 36 different Storytellers, in addition to the libraries, a further 123 events were delivered held in 106 community venues and 30 events delivered in 21 schools. Feedback is obtained after sessions which helps shape future activity and also confirms how much they value the activity. Demand for Storytelling events are currently out stripping the organisations ability to deliver. The purposes of our charity does not lead to any harm. The charity’s beneficiaries are children and young people, older people, various adult groups including library staff, community groups, inter-cultural organisations and faith based groups The charity works with various health and welfare groups providing storytelling for people with mental health issues, hearing and visual impairment, learning disabilities and people suffering from a variety of illnesses including Alzheimers & Dementia, Arthritis, Chest Heart and Stroke conditions, Cancer and Motor Neurone Disease. The charity also works with prisoners and their families, refugees and homeless people. There is no private benefit.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Armstrong Storytelling Trust provides storytelling activities for people of all ages throughout Northern Ireland both in libraries and within communities, facilitating public storytelling events including monthly adult Yarnspinning evenings at Tullycarnet Library (running since 1991), providing employment opportunities for new and emerging
storytellers, offering storytelling training for library staff, carers and young people and adults and establishing a firm foundation for storytelling to continue as an important and enduring art-form in Northern Ireland.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Ethnic minorities
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- General public
- Homelessness
- Interface communities
- Language community
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Women
How the charity works
- Arts
- Cultural
- Education/training
