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Bellaghy Womens Group

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £3.0K

  • Spending

    £3.2K

  • Charity no. 102254
  • Date registered. 10/04/2015

Public benefits

The public benefit flowing from the group's purposes are that women from Bellaghy and surrounding area will be able to avail of training courses and meetings, educational trips and conferences. As a result women living in a rural area will have increased knowledge, skills, self-confidence and as a result general well-being. Other women's groups

will benefit by learning from the experiences of Bellaghy Women's Group Ltd. Families will benefit as will the elderly because they will be able to participate in the recreation and leisure time programmes devised by the group. These public benefits will be measured by evaluations conducted at the end of each series of talks, training sessions, classes etc. Feedback will also be obtained by the management committee when they conduct one to one interviews with beneficiaries or focus groups with their members. They will also be measured by the monitoring demands placed on the group by each individual funding agency. A report on all activities will also be made public at an AGM. There is no harm flowing from these purposes and no priviate benefit except for wages for the various tutors, speakers without whom the normal activities of the group could not take place.

What your organisation does

Bellaghy Women's Group Ltd is an association of women from Bellaghy and surrounding area. The group rents a room/s as and when needed in the Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy. The group organises programmes of education in an attempt to improve the knowledge, the skills, self-confidence and well-being of their members. The group also provides a

variety of recreational and leisure time activities based on the demands coming from the members. The group also tries to network particularly on a cross community basis with other women's organisations from across the province. The group works closely with the local council, local college of further education and any other organisations, statutory or voluntary which helps them to achieve their objectives.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Women

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Education/training

Charitable purposes

The Company's objects are to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Northern Ireland (Bellaghy) and surrounding areas hereinafter described as the area of benefit without distinction of sexual orientation, race or of political religious or other opinions by associating together the said inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education, to promote family care and the relief of the elderly, to preserve the environment and heritage of the area of benefit and to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 5 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Kathleen Hughes
  • Angela Boorman
  • Maureen Doyle
  • Alva Overend
  • Miss Marie Mcguckin

Contact details

Public Address

Maureen, 2 Birchwood, Bellaghy, Magherafelt, BT45 8JZ

List of regions

  • Causeway Coast And Glens District Council
  • Mid Ulster District Council

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