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The Wesley Trust (High Street Methodist) Lurgan

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £15.5K

  • Spending

    £17.8K

  • Charity no. 102256
  • Date registered. 16/10/2015

Public benefits

The public benefits that flow from the purpose of the Wesley Trust are: (1) improved educational potential and integration of young people back into mainstream education, (2) good values which supports community cohesion and (3) stimulation of economic activity. The beneficiaries will be those who have completed the various training and

development programmes, additional staff employed through the creation of new businesses on the premises and also the wider local community in the area. These benefits can be evidenced by evaluation and feedback from individuals and parties benefiting from the various activities and also creation of local employment opportunities through provision of quality accommodation. Some private benefit is obtained by the owners of the small businesses who rent units on favourable terms but this is ancillary to the main purpose and is outweighed by the gains in public benefit. For all activities any risk of harm will be managed by working within recognised guidelines and procedures for the workplace, eg Child Protection, H&S and Equal Opportunities.

What your organisation does

1. The Wesley Trust building provides facilities to be used by various groups. 2. The Connections Project is an alternative education service providing an intervention tool for disaffected pupils; seeking to help them avoid exclusion and re-focus with their school activities. The programme operates on a day-release basis for short periods of time

with participants being referred from school. Throughout the duration of the programme each young person undertakes activities and challenges in order to help them integrate back into school life. There is also a mentoring element associated with the programme to support the young person.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of religion
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • General public
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Counselling/support
  • Education/training
  • General charitable purposes
  • Relief of poverty
  • Religious activities
  • Youth development

Charitable purposes

The objects of the Trust shall be the advancement of the Christian Faith as understood by the Methodist Church in Ireland and for the promotion for the public benefit and social good of Lurgan (the 'area of benefit'), being an area of social or economic deprivation, by all or any of the following means: 1. the relief of poverty in such ways as may be thought fit; 2. the relief of unemployment in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment; 3. the advancement of education, training or retraining, and the provision of work experience particularly for people who are unemployed; 4. relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, addictions, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • The Wesley Trust
  • 6 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Irene Dickson
  • Shaun Cleland
  • Harold Agnew
  • Mr Charlie Hamilton
  • Andrew Gibson
  • Tom Fitzpatrick

Contact details

Public Address

Mr Charlie Hamilton, 21 High Street, Lurgan, County Armagh, BT66 8AA

List of regions

  • Armagh City, Banbridge And Craigavon Council

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