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Olive Lane Organisation

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Charity no. 109277 Company no. 689666 Date registered. 21/12/2022

Public benefits

This charity is a response to a need. The need is reflected in many pieces of research and observed from our own personal experience. Female care leavers are at a social and economic disadvantage in Northern Ireland. We seek to be a charity and social enterprise offering opportunities for young women to build a future for themselves. We will

provide a safe environment where young women can flourish and reach their full potential. We want to use opportunities in the hospitality industry to promote employability and entrepreneurship, equipping these young women with transferable skills for the working world. We will offer accredited training courses, work experience and paid employment within our social enterprise to empower young women, to build their career and to avoid the cycle of abuse, prostitution, criminal activity and poverty. Feedback from beneficiaries. No. Young women leaving care. No.

What your organisation does

This charity is a response to a need. The need is reflected in many pieces of research and observed from our own personal experience. Female care leavers are at a social and economic disadvantage in Northern Ireland. We seek to be a charity and social enterprise offering opportunities for young women to build a future for themselves. We will

provide a safe environment where young women can flourish and reach their full potential. We want to use opportunities in the hospitality industry to promote employability and entrepreneurship, equipping these young women with transferable skills for the working world. We will offer accredited training courses, work experience and paid employment within our social enterprise to empower young women, to build their career and to avoid the cycle of abuse, prostitution, criminal activity and poverty.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • 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

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information

Charitable purposes

The Charity’s Objects are for the public benefit to advance education and for the relief of those in need by reason of disadvantage and in particular (without limitation) to provide young women leaving care with vocational and life skills training and work experience opportunities by operating a community café/delicatessen within an ethos of Christian care in Northern Ireland. Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with s.2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name


  • 3 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Mrs Emma Aiken, 20 Garnerville Gardens, Belfast, BT4 2PA

Trustee board

Trustee
Mrs Chloe Higginson
Mrs Emma Aiken
Mrs Melissa Margaret Mccracken

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland