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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 16 Apr 2019
- Charity no. 100455
- Date registered. 15/08/2014
Public benefits
PURPOSE To promote community development by providing facilities, support and information for community groups and or-ganisations and encouraging and assisting such organisations to co-operate to achieve their aims BENEFIT: Access to information and facilities. Increased knowledge of what is happening and why. A recognised meeting place for local
groups. PURPOSE; To provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupations with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said residents BENEFIT: Improved community life for local residents and reduction in isolation. PURPOSE: Relieve those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability or other disadvantage BENEFIT: A community that feels better cared for and has access to help and support PURPOSE: To advance education and training, heritage, arts and culture BENEFIT: A better informed community. A more confident community. A community which knows about it’s past and how it has affected the present PURPOSE: To promote participation in healthy recreation BENEFIT: A healthier community with lessening dependency on Health Service. PURPOSE: Promote good community relations and social cohesion, racial harmony and equality and diversity. BENEFIT: A reduction in anti-social behaviour. Less sectarianism. Community feels more secure. PURPOSE: Promote the advancement of amateur sport BENEFIT: A strengthening of the community. Less anti social behaviour. A healthier community. PURPOSE: Promote the advancement of environmental protection or improvement BENEFIT: A pleasing and well cared for environment. Community involvement and support. Community pride. Community development and co-operation. Support of elected representatives and statutory authorities. PURPOSE: Promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined BENEFIT: Benefit to the Community at large BENEFITS EVIDENCED BY: The benefits are confirmed by the community through their feedback, their interest in Community Newsletter, their participation in community events, their support of organised events, their contribution to fund raising and their gen-eral attitude. They have shown more confidence in their local representatives and in the Statutory authorities. They have begun to demonstrate a pride in their community through participation in local environmental and other compe-titions. The traders have demonstrated the benefits to them through their regular sponsorship of events and participa-tion in these events. The young people have demonstrated the benefit to them through a considerable increase in Youth Club membership and participation in leadership training. The older people have confirmed the benefit to them through their participation in our pharmacy project and their keenness to continue and expand the project. The com-munity generally has shown the benefit to them through good attendance at public meetings and appreciation of being better informed about the many major environmental upheavals in the community particularly in the village. ANY HARM: There is no harm arising from pursuing our purposes WHO BENEFITS: All the inhabitants of Cullybackey and it’s environs including residents, traders and other groups
What your organisation does
Our organisation has been involved in environmental improvements including a current project to revitalise the village. We have also recently set up a historical society to encourage an interest in our past and let the people know more about their social history. We have a yearly programme of cleaning up litter and taking care of summer flowering.
We have computer classes aimed at all ages but particulartly the older generation. We run a youth club where we aim to provide a programme of healthy exercise through games and other skills in craft work etc. We have a Pharmacy Project to encourage local people to look after their health through becoming more acquainted with their pharmacist and to participate in walking and other exercise. We issue an quarterly newsletter to let the community know what is going on and what is palnned. We are involved in a programme of recruiting more volunteers and increasing interest in the village. We work with the local schools and businesses in encouraging everyone to be litter conscious. We seek to inform the villagers through Information clinics involving the CAB and PSNI. We also inform through a quarterly newsletter. We also work with local traders who support our fundraising efforts through sponsoring prizes. The traders also sponsor the prizes for a local "Best kept garden " competition. We also work with other organisations in the village e.g. the scouts and the Women's Institute who assist with environmental work. We also lobby for the provision of parking facilities at our local train station and we also work with statutory bodies such as the Roads Service to implement improvements in the village infrastructure.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of amateur sport
- 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
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Older people
- Voluntary and community sector
How the charity works
- Community development
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
Charitable purposes
The Charity's objects are specifically restricted to the following:- To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Cullybackey and its environs without distinction of gender, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, or political, religious or other opinion by associating with the statutory authorities, voluntary and community organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to: (a) promote community development by providing facilities, support and information for community and voluntary groups and organisations and encouraging and assisting such organisations to co-operate to achieve their aims; (b) provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupations with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said residents; (c) relieve those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability or other disadvantage; (d) advance education and training and heritage, the arts and culture; (e) promote participation in healthy recreation; (f) promote good community relations and social cohesion, racial harmony and equality and diversity; (g) promote the advancement of amateur sport (h) promote the advancement of environmental protection or improvement (i) promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined.