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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£495.7K
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Spending
£408.2K
- Charity no. 100098
- Date registered. 30/05/2014
Public benefits
The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include improved governance in community groups; increased capability in the management of community projects and facilities; increased access to funding for groups to develop projects; better informed group representatives about the sector and opportunities; enhanced ability to participate in
decision making on policies which affect rural areas; more access to equipment as and when groups require it; strengthened ability of groups and individuals to avail of programmes which will improve their circumstances and opportunities. These benefits are evidenced through feedback from attendees at our events using evaluation forms; from surveys conducted with member groups; from records of loaning/using equipment; from verbal feedback of services provided and independent evaluation of our services by our funders. There is no harm anticipated from this purpose. The charity’s beneficiaries are people living in rural areas of the Omagh District. A private benefit to trustees may arise from our ongoing programme of training, good practice visits, direct support to groups, financial support through grants or information provision. Through this trustees gain skills, experience or grant aid which are transferable to other settings and which may benefit their own community group. Our own trustees receive information in the same way as other beneficiaries and are assigned support and/or apply for grant aid the same as other beneficiaries. These benefits are incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries.
What your organisation does
Omagh Forum is a network organisation and the principal activity is providing development support to rural community groups in the Omagh district. This takes the form of helping to determine needs in the respective communities; identifying funding opportunities and providing support to develop projects. A focus this year has been on helping
groups with the NI Rural Development Programme, Social economy, Rural poverty and social isolation and developing capacity and leadership. We have operated other projects recently including the MARA project which identified socially excluded households who are visited by an enabler to determine if they are eligible for benefits, grants – e.g. insulation and services such as community transport or local activities in their area. We participated in the CCB (Community Capacity Building) Project which recruited sixteen groups to a programme of activity which helped to strengthen cross community contact and address sectarianism across the North West. Omagh Forum developed a number of smaller scale projects focused on the health and well being of the rural community such as the Rural Emotional Resilience Programme which enabled groups to run walk leader training; computer training for older people and a mental health programme for young people; The Winter Health programme enabled the distribution of 250 Keep Warm packs and three events were held to give information to those most vulnerable.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- 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
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Economic development
- Grant making
- Rural development
- Volunteer development