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Rehability

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £209.8K

  • Spending

    £211.2K

  • Charity no. 103182
  • Date registered. 30/11/2016

Public benefits

The direct benefits flowing from this purpose include building personal resilience, coping skills and self confidence of members to enable them to integrate more fully within the wider community, to live more meaningful lives, enjoy positive mental health and be afforded the opportunities each and every one of us are entitled to. These benefits

can be demonstrated by the membership numbers, the numbers attending sessions and both verbal and written feedback from members and/or their families or carers on their enhanced emotional health and wellbeing. The purposes of our charity will not lead to any harm. The charity's beneficiaries are adults aged 18 and over who are diagnosed with long-term mental health difficulties and living in the wider Antrim, Ballymena and Whiteabbey areas. A private benefit to trustees and other volunteers may arise from our ongoing training programme and their voluntary work experience. Through same they may gain skills and experience which are transferable to other settings. These benefits are incidental and necessary insofar as they contribute towards achieving our purposes and are a necessary result of same.

What your organisation does

rehability is a voluntary charitable organisation based in Antrim.The fundamental aim of the centre is to provide social, educational and recreational acitivites, support and practical help to individuals who have experienced long term mental health problems and aid them on their road to recovery.Rehability's work is based on the principles of self

help and user involvement and seeks to challenge the stigma attached to mental ill health.Our very comprehensive range of activities are geared around building personal resilience,coping skills and self confidence, with the aim that our members can integrate more fully with the wider community, live meaningful lives, enjoy positive mental health and be afforded the opportunities each and everyone of us are entitled to.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • Other charitable purposes

Who the charity helps

  • Mental health
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Community development
  • Community transport
  • Counselling/support
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Education/training
  • Volunteer development

Charitable purposes

The company is established for the relief of sickness and for the promotion, protection and preservation of health and wellbeing of people aged 16 and over with chronic mental health illness, to advance education and to relieve financial hardship amongst people suffering from chronic mental health illness in Antrim and its environs of Northern Ireland without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreational leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the beneficiaries

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 7 Trustees
  • 4 Employees
  • 10 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mr Ian Burnside
  • Mr Noel Maguire
  • Mr Stephen Mcloughlin
  • Ms Leah Symth
  • Ms Louise Goodman
  • Mr John Smyth
  • Mrs Sharon Brash

Contact details

Public Address

Mr Billy Gould, 7-8 Norfolk Court, Antrim, BT41 2SF

List of regions

  • Antrim And Newtownabbey Borough Council
  • Lisburn And Castlereagh City Council
  • Mid And East Antrim Borough Council

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