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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£22.0K
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Spending
£22.3K
- Charity no. 101086
- Date registered. 06/07/2015
Public benefits
The organisation provides the opportunity for young people to undertake a recognised personal development programme through the use of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. This organisation has the primary objective to deliver the Duke of Edinburgh's Award however as part of that our young people need to be provided with the education to undertake the
various sections. This education is there to help our young people to be prepared for the challenges that they will encounter in the various sections and helps to mitigate many of the risks associated with some of the activities. Many of you young people work with our volunteer organisations which are church or community based and parts of their programme provide an element of religious education. This work helps to provide many of the junior and in the longer term well rounded long term, dedicated leaders for many of the local youth organizations which are generally church based. An element of our outdoor work involves basic first aid training and the older members may also gain from formal first aid qualifications. This informal and formal training has provided many local youth organizations with their required first aiders. In the wider community it has provided many with the education and understanding to deal with first aid events that can happen in everyday life. This outdoor work also involves the understanding and protection or the wilderness country in which they get the opportunity to explore and become more aware of environmental issues. All the young people involved in the organisation must undertake an element of physical involvement and most of them participate in some form of individual or team sports. The main short term benefit from this is to provide a more healthy generation of young people and hopefully in the longer term a healthier older generation. The organisation has a very diverse membership which is open to all backgrounds and no bar is exercised. The organisation has taken young people too many different countries of the world and during the preparation for this specific ventures young people do explore the local customs and cultural habits to ensure that they do not cause issues when mixing or working with local communities. The benefit of being able to explore different cultures in our experience produces much more tolerant and understanding young people who take this experience with them into their respective places of employment which should help society in general to become more understanding of the world around. These benefits are (will be) demonstrated through a process of continual annual review of the training and processes used in help young people to achieve their awards. Monitoring the numbers of young people who complete the various section of their award with the objective of assisting all those who start a section to meet their final objective of achieving that section. The purposes of our charity may lead to minor injury, serious injury or death. We can show that this harm is outweighed by the benefits through the well documented successes of many of the young people who get involved in the international recognised individual personal development programme. The only private benefit flowing from this purpose is that many of our young people and leaders gain recognised qualifications or transferable workplace skills and this is incidental and necessary because of the training that has to be undertaken to provide the necessary education to mitigate the risk associated with some of the activities.
What your organisation does
The organisation provides the opportunity for young people to undertake a recognised personal development programme through the use of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. The organisation runs a weekly night during the winter to provide personal one on one direction on how to achieve their specific objective. During the summer month more time is spent
providing outdoor opportunities to explore the wild country areas both locally and furtjer afield. Opportunities have been provided in Northern Spain, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Canada, Republic of Ireland and South Africa.
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
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Counselling/support
- Cultural
- Disability
- Education/training
- General charitable purposes
- Rural development
- Urban development
- Volunteer development
- Welfare/benevolent
- Youth development