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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 24 Sep 2025
- Charity no. 102841
- Date registered. 12/04/2016
Public benefits
What is the benefit? We have established and support a Gaelic medium primary school and nursery unit for the families in our local community. Through the outreach work we do with children and parents, we also look at our linguistic and cultural heritage and we teach about and preserve these aspects of our heritage within our local community.
Benefits from this work include an increased understanding of our linguistic and cultural heritage and the importance of preserving these aspects of our heritage within our local community. We work in partnership with Gaelscoil an Chaistil children in various environmental projects, where we can raise their awareness of biodiversity in their local area. We promote the use of the Gaelic language using these projects as a vehicle. Local people who take up training and/or employment with us are able to enhance their skills by learning on the job and by accessing relevant training. We also provide summer schemes during the school holidays for children attending Gaelic medium education and facilitate Gaelic language classes for the local community. We continue to work with past pupils from the Gaelic medium school to enhance their use of Gaelic while no longer in a Gaelic medium educational setting. How is it demonstrated? The school that we founded, Gaelscoil an Chaistil, has gone from strength to strength. The benefits of Gaelic medium education are demonstrated by the demand for the continuation of the service provided in this local area seen through increasing enrolment year on year. The benefits are evidenced through the children’s developmental progress, parental feedback at our parent meetings and during informal daily chats with staff. Feedback from the Education and Training Inspectorate from November 2015 stated ‘the children are highly motivated and keen to learn. They respond very well to their teachers and other staff and work effectively in pairs and small groups, supporting each other with their work. They communicate very well with each other in both Irish and English, enjoy engaging in classroom discussions and talk very positively about their learning with their peers and with adults.’ Discussions with past pupils about our work with them and it impact that it has had on their lives have been very positive. Indeed we work in conjunction with Gaelscoil an Chaistil and with Cross and Passion College to empower young adults to volunteer at the primary school and continue to enhance and own their own Gaelic fluency. Is there any harm? There is no harm. All staff and volunteers are vetted. Who are the beneficiaries? Our primary beneficiaries are the local community – ie. The families who attend the Gaelic medium school that we established; the children who attend our summer schemes; the past pupils who continue to attend events run after school and during the summer. Other beneficiaries are local people who take up training and/or employment with us Is there any private benefit? There is no private benefit. Minimal fees are charged for activities that we arrange. This is to ensure widespread participation and that economically disadvantaged families are able to avail of our services.
What your organisation does
This organisation, to date, has provided a wide range of activities and drawn down funding which has been invested within the community. Our actions have created a preschool, primary school, provided 3rd level adults' education programmes, parenting programmes, toddler groups. We have facilitated the advancement of a new youth club and we have
carried out a range of environmental activities. All our activities have been carried out for the benefit of others within the community.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- General public
- Language community
- Men
- Older people
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Arts
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Counselling/support
- Cultural
- Disability
- Economic development
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- Grant making
- Heritage/historical
- Human rights/equality
- Playgroup/after schools
- Relief of poverty
- Rural development
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
Charitable purposes
To advance Gaelic language and culture, environmental protection and improvement, and the promotion of the benefit of the inhabitants and visitors (“hereinafter called the beneficiaries”) in particularly but not exclusively of Ballycastle, the Glens and north Antrim (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) without distinction of age, gender, sexuality, disability, nationality, ethnic identity, race, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life