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The Denis Lynn Foundation

Registered

Charity no. 110137 Company no. 701433 Date registered. 24/06/2024

Public benefits

In Northern Ireland, the benefits include but are not limited to better life outcomes for disadvantaged young people, better management of learning difficulties experienced by young people, less hunger experienced by underprivileged young people during school holidays, and a cleaner environment for County Down, including improvements to the River

Quoile. In Malawi, the benefits include fewer infant malaria deaths, fewer cases of teenage pregnancy, better education and care for orphans and better health outcomes across one district in the world’s poorest peaceful country. One of or more of our trustees visits the projects funded to ensure that the funds donated are properly applied and are delivering benefit. The benefits can be demonstrated by the results we and our partners deliver. For example, by all but eradicating childhood malaria deaths in Mulanje by supporting the practice of IRS spraying. Or by the numbers of children in Downpatrick, County Down, who with our support have not gone hungry during school holidays, when free school meals are not available to them. No. Our current delivery partners include Children in Northern Ireland, One Equine, Clean up the Quoile and the Mulanje Mission Hospital. The direct beneficiaries of our work are the disadvantaged populations of County Down and Mulanje. A private benefit to trustees may arise from trustee training programmes and from direct visits to projects through which they gain skills or experience which may be transferred to other settings.

What your organisation does

The Denis Lynn Foundation’s purpose is to help to alleviate poverty, improve the life chances of disadvantaged young people and protect and improve the environment, with a particular focus being in County Down, Northern Ireland and the Mulanje district of Malawi.The Denis Lynn Foundation carries out its purposes by working closely with partner

charities and/or delivery partners. The Denis Lynn Foundation provides expertise and experience to help those partner charities and/or delivery partners achieve their goals, where they match our own and where their work is carried out in our two priority geographical locations. As well as operational guidance, expertise and experience, THe Denis Lynn Foundation provides funding that makes this work possible.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • General public
  • General public
  • General public
  • General public

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Community development
  • Grant making
  • Grant making

Charitable purposes

The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically restricted to the following: (1) alleviate poverty; (2) improve the life chances of disadvantaged young people; (3) protect and improve the environment, with a particular focus of its work being in County Down, Northern Ireland and Mulanje, Malawi; (4) alleviate school holiday hunger in Northern Ireland; (5) improve river quality in Northern Ireland; (6) eradicate malaria deaths in Mulanje, Malawi; (7) educate and care for orphans in Mulanje, Malawi; and, (8) development of sustainable agricultural techniques in the developing world.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name


  • 3 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Contact details

  • Tel: 028 4461 9334

Public address

  • Mr Jago Pearson, Lynns Country Foods Ltd, Gatelodge Cottage, 29-31 Killyleagh Road, Downpatrick, BT30 9BL

Trustee board

Trustee
Ms Christine Henning Lynn
Mr Andrew Ware
Mr Jago Pearson

Areas of operation

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
  • Internationally
  • Malawi