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Lisburn Recreation & Community Hub

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £6.2K

  • Spending

    £11.4K

Charity no. 108275 Date registered. 10/12/2021

Public benefits

The direct benefits flowing from Purpose 1 The direct benefits which flow from this purpose includes improvement in physical and emotional health and well-being as a result of participation in sport and other recreational activities and community activities. Purpose 2 The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include improvement in physical

and emotional health and well-being. This includes raised esteem and confidence, improved aerobic capacity and development of physical skills. Purpose 3 The direct benefits which flow from this purpose includes improvement in physical and emotional health and well-being as a result of participation in sport and other recreational activities and community activities. Purpose 4 The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include improvement in physical and emotional health and well-being because of participation in recreation and community activities. This includes raised esteem and confidence, improved aerobic capacity and development of physical skills. Benefits identified are demonstrated through the monitoring and evaluation of our activities, programmes and services across members, participants, beneficiaries and with other stakeholders. This includes gathering both formal and informal feedback via a range of means such as 1-2-1 interviews, group discussions, focus groups, comment cards, surveys and questionnaires around the benefits of activity provided. We will monitor participant numbers across services, activities, sessions, membership, retention into other programmes etc. to further reference the value and impact of our purposes and to develop future services and programmes. Our purposes do not give rise to any harm. The beneficiaries of our purposes are people living in Lisburn City and surrounding areas, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council and across Lagan Valley constituency. The private benefit for our members is that they are gaining a healthy and active lifestyles together with social inclusion across organised activity.

What your organisation does

Lisburn Recreation and Community Hub was established in February 2020. We aim to offer affordable recreation and community facilities to all, regardless of age, gender or disability, while providing a home for sports clubs, youth groups, community groups and wider community across Lisburn City and wider area. Lisburn Recreation and Community Hub

provides and maintains community facilities with minimal charges that are used to sustain the facility for community benefit. Activities will include sport, health and wellbeing, community development, social activities and recreational interests. Lisburn Recreation and Community Hub is based in the city of Lisburn serving the surrounding areas including across Lisburn City and the wider Council area. We work in partnership with other local organisations and pursue better facilities for sporting, recreational and community participation. The hub will improve social cohesion to develop communities stronger and healthier. We aim to: • deliver improved facilities to address sports, health and community facility deficit • create safe access to facilities for the wider community • improve both physical and mental health for local people • contribute to the community development in Lisburn • create hybrid community and recreational hub in the heart of Lisburn. • improve basic community services for local population to improve health and wellbeing services and activities. • provide shared space for recreational and community services for local people including young people, socially disadvantaged, older people and those with disability. • generate wider community benefit through sport and non-sport activities, particularly in the areas of health and wellbeing, education skills and employment, social inclusion and volunteering by creating a sustainable model for delivery of new sporting and community facilities at Lisburn Community & Recreation Hub.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of amateur sport

Who the charity helps

  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Community safety/crime prevention
  • Men
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Community enterprise
  • Sport/recreation
  • Volunteer development
  • Youth development

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2024

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2023

Independent examiners report Charity accounts Trustee annual report

Charitable purposes

2.0 Objects The Association is established: 2.1 To provide and assist in the provision of facilities and services primarily for the benefit of the community, visitors to and the residents of Lisburn and its environs (hereinafter described as “the area of benefit”) without distinction of age, sex, race, political, religious or other opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to provide and advance the facilities in the interests of social welfare, for recreation, sport or other leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants; 2.1.1 To advance sport by maintaining the facilities at Stanley Park to promote participation in amateur sport in Lisburn through the maintenance of sport and recreation facilities. 2.1.2 To establish or to secure the establishment of a Community Hub (hereinafter called 'the Hub') and to maintain it and to manage to co-operate with any local statutory authority (Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council as landlords) in the maintenance and management of such a Hub for activities promoted by the Association and its constituent bodies in furtherance of the above objects. 2.2 Provide or secure the provision for health and mental wellbeing, educational and recreational facilities, and practical assistance for elderly and disabled people, within the area of benefit;

Governing document

Constitution

Other name


  • 7 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mr Nigel Charles Farr, Stanley Park, Lisburn Leisure Park, Lisburn, 17 Orange Hall Lane, Ballymacash Ro, BT28 1LP

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr Nigel Charles Farr
Mr Paul Edward Francis Traynor
Mr Paul Callum Macaulay
Mr Colin Raymond Holmes
Mr Alan Coulter
Mr James Kyle Paterson
Mrs. Linsey Gibson

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland