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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£75.7K
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Spending
£64.9K
- Charity no. 103162
- Date registered. 22/02/2016
Public benefits
The public benefit for the advancement of community development is a direct benefit. The centre we run is a place where people feel free to get to know one another. The Armoy community benefit directly as community life for all its inhabitants is improved. This is demonstrated through the usage of the centre. The association encourages every member
of our community to be an active citizen. We provide the basis for community initiatives to develop, including the Over 55s club and the summer scheme. The participation by a wide section of our community shows that we benefit the public by providing opportunities for them to develop their citizenship of our community. The public benefit for relief of those in need is a direct benefit for the people who partake in the programmes offered by the Association. Programmes like the annual summer scheme give a holiday to those who cannot afford to go on holiday. It eases the burden of poverty as the younger section of the pupil who are impoverished can have a parity of experience with those who can afford to go on holiday. To the section of the public who are unemployed, the association provides volunteering opportunities in the centre and in the community gardens. This lifts the monotony of the day for those who are unemployed. This indirectly benefits the entire community who enjoy seeing a more pleasant environment in the village. The advancement of educational opportunities for, the aged and young alike; leads to the direct public benefit of the heightening in knowledge and understanding. For the young of Armoy, our programme increases their chances of employability as they are able to develop their skills set from the programmes offered by the organisation including youth programmes where young people can develop their technology skills in video-making. The wider benefit is that young people will find employment and will have a more fulfilling youth after education. For the aged, our association provides an Over 55's club which creates benefits of life-long learning experiences for the aging members of our community and over 55s club. This experience is one that is educational, but also social. This programme, in a social sense, benefits the aging members of our community by giving them the opportunity to get to know one another and to make new friends from all sides in our community, whilst personally developing different skills and hobbies. The benefit is that their mental and physical health is likely to improve because they are active. The advancement of conflict resolution and reconciliation leads to people feeling safer in our communities, and people being able to move on from the past. The indirect benefit of the advancement of reconciliation is that the services and businesses in Armoy prosper, as when people feel safe they can socialise and use services nearest to their home. The businesses and other clubs gain more support as people use services run by both sides of the community, not just one side. The wider benefit to society in Northern Ireland, in general, is that reconciliation can happen, and does happen in interface communities, and thus NI gains an impetus from what our Association does, to continue in the journey of reconciliation. The promotion of the inhabitants of Armoy, leads to people in Armoy feeling valued and worthy. This promotion benefits the inhabitants of Armoy, as they feel liberated from the ‘small-village’ mentality that they may have hitherto succumbed. When their work and membership of our community is recognised, they grow as individuals able to contribute more to community life. All the activities and purposes of Armoy Community Association are beneficial to the public, without distinction. By no means do any of the activities or purposes of the organisation cause harm and provides no private benefit to members.
What your organisation does
Our organisation manages and maintains a community centre in the village of Armoy. The Centre is home to a community pharmacy, hairdressers, Café, SureStart, Playgroup, Community Hall and Common Room, a local motorbike club office and 2 residential flats. This centre, the organisation runs and maintains. The organisation provides social,
educational, environmental and recreational services and facilitates to the inhabitants of Armoy. The organisation does this through the annual two-week Summer Scheme, the Over 55's club, the youth club, and various other project fitness, cultural, arts and environmental projects throughout the year. The organisation provides advice and advocates on behalf of the community. The organisation advocates for tenants of HE houses in Armoy, at the NIHE Inter-Agency Meetings. The organisation communicates with, and lobbies, politicians and statutory organisations to ensure that all people in Armoy are provided with the services that they deserve. The Organisation carries out research and surveys to establish the direction in which the community and the organisation should move forward. The organisation provides facilitates that can be used by other local community groups, to provide them with a base for their programmes. The organisation recruits and trains volunteers; to help carry out the purposes of our organisation. The organisation looks after the environs of Armoy by employing an environmental worker, to ensure that the aesthetics of Armoy are pleasing to those who live there, and those who simply pass by. The organisation publishes newsletters and houses exhibitions to promote the shared heritage of the area. The organisation commission pieces of art to remember the famous sons and daughters of our area, to thank them for their contribution to the place Armoy is today. The organisation obtains funding in the form of grants or donations, to carry out its purposes.
The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Interface communities
- Older people
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Tenants
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- Playgroup/after schools
- Relief of poverty
- Rural development
- Volunteer development
- Youth development