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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 10 Dec 2018
- Charity no. 101197
- Date registered. 04/02/2015
Public benefits
Beneficiaries: people living in Northern Ireland and ethnic minority communities Benefit: • by promoting the positive attributes from different cultures through various mediums, we would envisage that this would help to reduce/eliminate discrimination and promote acceptance of BME people by the society here in Northern Ireland. Ultimately we
would be aiming for integration into the community here and integration of people from various ethnic backgrounds with each other. • all of our work is of educational value and our aim is that, by providing various different platforms in which to promote diversity and culture, we promote a greater understanding and acceptance of people from diverse backgrounds living in Northern Ireland. Demonstrating the benefit: We currently produce a lifestyle magazine, which includes various positive features on people from various ethnic backgrounds (e.g. from India, Nigeria, Brazil, Ivory Coast). The magazine highlights the positive impact that these cultures are bringing to the community in NI. We print 1,000 copies which goes to different community centres, health centres, libraries and other organisations. We are about to print our 4th edition and will continue to publish the magazine on a bi-annual or annual basis, time permitting. The magazine also includes articles from other organisations, like the Equality Commission and NICCY and information about hate crime. Besides the hard copy publication, we plan to make the magazine available electronically in order to reach more people. Purpose: Beneficiaries: people living in Northern Ireland and ethnic minority communities. Benefit: by interlinking art and culture and promoting positive messages about the beauty of diversity. Also participants learn new skills to be able to produce pieces of art. Demonstrating the benefit: we want to develop arts projects including film-making and other audio-visual projects by holding workshops and classes, and by any other means which can show participants how to create art. We ideally want the topics of such work to be about cultural and racial issues. We are still a very young organisation and are working to develop these ideas into projects. In our magazine we feature various types of artists (all types from musicians to dancers) from different backgrounds now living in NI, and provide a platform for them to explain what it is like for an ethnic minority artist to live in NI. Beneficiaries: people living in Northern Ireland including BME communities. Benefit: Our efforts should lead to a more harmonious society with people from ethnic minorities being positively received in the community. Demonstrating the benefit: everyone has the opportunity to benefit from our projects, we will not discriminate against anyone but rather will celebrate our differences. We are working with other charities and public bodies to highlight services that are available to the beneficiaries but also to highlight issues to them. Our magazine and arts projects will have an educational role in promoting the understanding and acceptance of our differences. We will develop projects which challenge prejudice, e.g. we aim to create a short film featuring ladies wearing burka, walking down the street and capturing reactions of the public to them. Beneficiaries: people living in Northern Ireland and ethnic minority communities Benefit: people living in Northern Ireland and ethnic minority communities Demonstrating the benefit: as we are a young organisation, we do not want to restrict our projects to those purposes described above but rather want to have the scope to pursue other charitable purposes if that is what our directors feel is necessary. Private benefit: there is no private benefit. Harm: there is no perceived harm, only good, that will come from our work.
What your organisation does
We advance the education of the general public on issues affecting ethnic minority communities in the area of benefit in particular but not exclusively through the mediums of audio-visual arts, multi-media, magazine publication and documentary film-making; We provide free emergency interpreting services to the Hungarian, Hungarian Roma and
Hungarian/Slovakian Roma communities in Hungarian language. For example, if they need to call a public body, we will interpret for them, so that they can make the first contact and get through to the professional interpreter of the public body. Or if they need to call the police we help to request an interpreter for them. We have also provided interpreting on a voluntary basis for some people from this community to help them get on to employment programmes run by other charities, such as the East Belfast Mission’s Stepping Stones programme.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
Who the charity helps
- Ethnic minorities
- Travellers
- Voluntary and community sector
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Cultural
Charitable purposes
The company’s objects are specifically restricted to the promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit, the advancement, improvement, production and promotion of art and culture, the advancement of education and the promotion of the benefit of the inhabitants (hereinafter called the “beneficiaries”) of Northern Ireland (“hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) without distinction of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability/ability, race, nationality, ethnic origin, political, religious or other opinion by associating the statutory and local authorities, voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants and in particular: (a) to advance the education of the general public on issues affecting ethnic minority communities in the area of benefit in particular but not exclusively through the mediums of audio-visual arts, multi-media, magazine publication and documentary film-making; (b) to promote equality and diversity and to eliminate discrimination in relation to ethnic minority communities in the area of benefit by such charitable means as the directors may from time to time decide and in particular but not exclusively by the promotion of the arts of film-making, magazine publication and video making in an effort to advance education and raise awareness about different national and racial groups in order to promote good community relations; (c) to advance education in the arts, and in particular in the arts of media and audio-visual film-making, magazine publication and other types of multimedia for the public benefit by the provision of facilities, equipment, training, workshops, exhibitions, seminars, productions of work and support in such charitable ways as the directors may from time to time decide; (d) to foster, promote and advance the education of the public in art in all its aspects, and to encourage appreciation for and participation in the arts and cross-cultural community based arts activities by the provision of information and training, classes, workshops, arts facilities and equipment, support and instruction and the organisation of exhibitions of works and events as the directors shall in their absolute discretion determine; (e) to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the directors, may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity.