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Ethnic Minority Sports Organisation Northern Ireland (EMSONI)

Registered

Charity no. 109367 Date registered. 13/06/2023

Public benefits

PURPOSE 1: The direct benefits, which flow from advancing amateur sport and encouraging participation in sport, are that there will be increased physical fitness and improved mental health and social inclusion within the Ethnic Minority Community. PURPOSE 2: The direct benefits, which flow from promoting cultural diversity and racial harmony, are

that there will be a greater understanding between people from diverse backgrounds and local people. We will be seeking to cultivate a culture where people can use sport to celebrate values that bring people together, participate in sport without any discrimination while at the same time, we are determined to significantly defuse the perceived justification of a lack of opportunity as a reason for not integrating or isolated or inactive in sports. We are not only organizing sporting activities for activeness but also to bring different cultures together to break barriers mitigating against social inclusion. PURPOSE 3: The direct benefits, which flow from advancing the education of the beneficiaries in leadership, coaching, refereeing and organisation of sport events and related subjects, are that they will have the skills to be able to help develop the sporting potentials in others in the community to reduce disparity in participation and leadership. They will also have the skills and knowledge to provide a safe, supportive, and positive environment for young people and others to participate in various sporting activities. PURPOSE 4: The direct benefits, which flow from advancing human rights, conflict resolution, and reconciliation, are that there will be a greater understanding of human rights of sportspersons and to lessening of conflict between people from different backgrounds who participate in sport and at sport workplace to prevent disintegration and to promote peace, good relations, and good community relations. PURPOSE 1: These benefits can be demonstrated by the numbers of people participating in the various athletic activities that we organize. For example, our annual football tournament ‘Northern Ireland Confederation Cup’. It will also be demonstrated by providing sporting equipment to socially disadvantaged communities within the UK who cannot afford them. PURPOSE 2: These benefits can be demonstrated by showcasing our diverse cultures via sports and games and also specific cultural events. We do not only organize sporting events and tournaments to bring both the beneficiaries and local people together, but it is also a platform to showcase interculturalism. PURPOSE 3: These benefits can be demonstrated by the provision of facilities, courses, workshops, training, programmes, conferences, summits, and resources and the number of participants that attend the programmes and those that achieve accreditation. All our programmes will be evaluated. PURPOSE 4: These benefits can be demonstrated by the numbers of people participating in the mediation processes and feedback from the beneficiaries through the regular evaluation of services. In providing exercise programmes there is a risk of minor injury which may occur through increased participation in physical activity. This harm is outweighed by the benefits of improved health. The risk of injury is mitigated by way of health check assessments and guidance from fully qualified coaches in the correct use of equipment and training techniques within health and safety guidelines. The charity’s beneficiaries are Ethnic Minority Communities in Northern Ireland and also in the other parts of the UK. There are no private benefits accecting the trustees.

What your organisation does

EMSONI – Ethnic Minority Sports Organisation Northern Ireland is a proud recipient of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS) for providing leadership for the development of ethnic minority sports in Northern Ireland and is the official organizer of Northern Ireland Confederation Cup (the biggest gathering of intercultural and intercommunity

sport festival, held annually). EMSONI, a multi-sports community organisation, works to identify gaps to deliver tailored and fun-filled sporting programmes to foster connection and a new dimension to peacebuilding at the same time keeping peoples’ bodies healthy (mental & physical well-being), to increase meaningful sport participation and to improve performance based on equity, diversity and inclusion with the vision to strengthening shared, sustainable and sporty society.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of amateur sport
  • The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity

Who the charity helps

  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Ethnic minorities
  • General public
  • General public
  • Older people

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Medical/health/sickness
  • Sport/recreation

Charitable purposes

OBJECTIVES: EMSONI is a non-profit organisation with the following Objects: To advance amateur sport by encouraging community participation in sport and promoting healthy recreation-involving physical fitness or mental skill or exertion among members of the Ethnic Minority community, in particular but not exclusively, (the beneficiaries) in Northern Ireland and also in other parts of the United Kingdom by the provision of, or assistance in the provision of, sports clubs and groups, equipment, facilities, forums, organisation of sporting activities, competitions, tournaments, skills development and by any other charitable means that the Trustees shall consider appropriate. To advance racial harmony and to promote cultural diversity by organising sporting in conjunction with intercultural activities to foster integration, racial justice, and understanding between people from diverse backgrounds and indigenous people of Northern Ireland and also in the other parts of the United Kingdom and to cultivate a culture of equality, diversity, and integration through sport with the aim of eliminating discrimination on the grounds of age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, race, political opinion or disability. To advance the education of the beneficiaries by the provision of facilities, courses, workshops, training, programmes, conferences, summits, and resources to enable, assist and encourage the education of persons in leadership, coaching, refereeing, and organisation of sport events and related subjects. To promote the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution, and reconciliation by raising awareness of human right issues within sport by facilitation debate and discussion, promoting universal values through sports in communities, researching into human rights issues in sports with the aim to provide technical advice to government and others on inequalites within sport, promoting good relations between people of different racial or ethnic groups by promotinhg knowledge and understanding between them and promoting mediation, as a process, to resolve conflicts within sport.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

EMSONI
  • 4 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

Public address

  • Ethnic Minority Sports Organisation Northern Ireland, Office 9 & 10, Townsend Enterprise, 28 Townsend Street, Belfast, BT13 2ES

Trustee board

Trustee
Mr Adekanmi Abayomi
Mr Mohamed Chendali
Mr Faisal Kadiri
Mr Robert Stewart

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
  • In The Uk