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- Charity no. 101000
- Company no. 59605
- Date registered. 05/04/2016
Public benefits
Purpose 1 – To advance education. The education will be focused on the areas covered by the other purposes but will not be limited to these areas. The education will be provided directly by offering the services of local historians, naturalists or other experts on the subject in question, to the users of the Cleenish Centre. The direct benefit that
flows from this purpose will be the advancement of education. This benefit will be open to all who choose to make use of it, but will be targeted mainly at primary school aged children. This will be evidenced by the numbers of people who use the Centre for this purpose and who refer to it. There is no recognised private benefit. Purpose 2 – To teach local history, particularly monastic history. The ancient monastic settlement at Cleenish Island, just a short distance from the Cleenish Centre was an important centre of learning founded in the 6th Century. The teaching will focus mainly on this settlement history. The direct benefit to flow from this purpose will be the advancement of arts, culture heritage or science. Again, this will be open to all who wish to make use of it. This will be evidence by the numbers who use this service and hopefully, eventually, by the increasing awareness of the Cleenish Monastic settlement throughout the Country. There is no recognised private benefit. Purpose 3 – To promote advancement of religion. This will be achieved by either running our own week or weekend courses on the Christian faith, or by providing the accommodation and servicing the background needs of church and other Christian groups who will run their own courses on the Christian faith or wish to provide space for reflection for their members. The direct benefit to flow from this purpose will be the advancement of religion. This benefit will be open to all, from any background, who wish to learn more about the Christian faith and religion. Again, the numbers of groups who use it will evidence this benefit. There is no recognised private benefit. Purpose 4 – To preserve the environment and heritage of the area of benefit. This purpose will lead to the public benefits of The advancement of environmental protection or improvement and The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science. This will be achieved through a combination of teaching mentioned above and practically by organising volunteers to do local clean-ups etc and use the Centre as a base for this. Within the grounds of the Centre there is also the ruins of an old listed 19th Century stables courtyard. The Cleenish Centre has undertaken a restoration project to stabilise this structure and endeavours to protect it for future generations. The people who live in and around the Bellanaleck area and those who visit the area will mainly receive these benefits. There is no recognised private benefit. As far as we are aware, the grounds being cleaned up or aiming to be cleaned up belongs to the Cleenish Centre, the Church of Ireland, DARD or the local council. Purpose 5 – To provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation. The public benefit that flows from this purpose is the advancement of health or saving lives. The main way the Cleenish Centre attempts to achieve this is by providing peaceful and calm surroundings to improve the mental health and relieve stresses of everyday live from those who use the Centre. We also allow the centre to be occasionally used for fitness classes that are run by volunteers and make no charge to the users of this service. For example the WHSCT use the Centre throughout the weekdays that we have no other activities as an area for a severely autistic young man who finds the peaceful and uninterrupted surroundings of the Cleenish Centre to be calming. There is no recognised private benefit
What your organisation does
The organisation completed building a Residential Centre in 2010 with the help of funding from charitable bodies, fundraising & donations and significant grant aid from International Fund for Ireland and the Department of Social Development. This Centre can accommodate up to 64 residents in bunk bed accommodation and up to 110 seated in the
conference dining room. We organise some activities of our own such as open days, conferences etc, but our main activity is to work in partnership with other groups and organisations whereby we look after the practical organisation of running a weekend or full week residential camp and the church or community group organises a set of activities and teaching which will fulfill one or more of our objectives. We also have occasional groups who use the dining room as conference facilities to promote religion, peace and reconciliation etc or who use our Centre as a base for environmental or heritage work in the local area. The organisation uses mainly volunteer members to carry out it's purposes, but it employs some people from time to time as the need arises.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of religion
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
- The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Cultural
- Education/training
- Heritage/historical
- Religious activities
- Volunteer development