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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£0.1K
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Spending
£2.2K
- Charity no. 100596
- Date registered. 01/10/2014
Public benefits
The purpose of SHIP activities is to celebrate and raise awareness of the role and function that Belfast dockers and industrial workers, their families, and the local community, played in building a prosperous maritime culture and industrial business in the port of Belfast. SHIP works with and supports an elderly community to collect and record
oral and multimedia (including photographs, poems and short stories) histories of a bygone era. SHIP employs an inter-generational approach to oral histories so that old people pass on life stories to the next generation. SHIP does this so that memories and historical artefacts are retained to enrich the diverse political, social, economic and cultural histories of Belfast. These activities contribute towards a public benefit, where SHIP events and publications provides materials to its beneficiaries, that is the families and descendants of those who lived and worked in the Docks, mills, foundries and in the wider community, in order for others to explore and understand the rich maritime and industrial history of Belfast. As a charity, the benefit flowing from SHIP’s purpose adds to the advancement of education on a range of topics. This is demonstrated in the range of activities SHIP host for the public who can then deepen their education on issues affecting the Dock community, such as poverty, religion, health and social well-being as well as amateur sports, such as boxing. SHIP also reinforces its educational impact through the promotion of reconciliation, where its public benefits flows in providing cross-community activities and ecumenical religious services to celebrate and remember the lives of all those lost working in the docks and industries, or at sea. The public benefit that flows from such activities ensures SHIP contributes to an enhanced understanding of how Belfast’s working-class communities contributed towards the creation and maintenance of the city’s rich maritime and industrial history.
What your organisation does
SHIP was established in 2006 to accept, collate and record information in order to promote and inform historical heritage projects encouraging the development of a shared history. Our project records a living history of Belfast dockers, their families, the port in general and its connected industries and communities. We have built up a portfolio of
banners, books, photographs and documentation allowing us to exhibit this social history. SHIP has experience in promoting activities that bring together people of all ages and backgrounds. The main focus of these activities has been to showcase and promote the historical contribution made by many that established Belfast as a world renowned industrial and maritime city. We will share with similar projects in other ports such as Dublin, the contribution made to the history of the Belfast. Research and oral testimonies from this living history project will be published to promote mutual and community understanding and develop a heritage archive.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- Older people
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Volunteers
How the charity works
- Heritage/historical
- Research/evaluation
- Volunteer development