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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£89.4K
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Spending
£88.6K
- Charity no. 103282
- Date registered. 08/09/2015
Public benefits
Purpose 1: Promote the health and wellbeing of the community. The benefits that flow from this are increased participation in activity leading to improvements in mental and physical health and increased self-esteem. The benefits can be demonstrated by the numbers participating in our programmes including the local Waterworks parkrun which we
feed into, plus the feedback from our post programme surveys. There is a minor risk of injury through participation so we also periodically have a physiotherapist give injury prevention advice. The beneficiaries are the general community of Belfast. The Committee receive an incidental private benefit flowing from this purpose as a result of a number of family members also attending the Club’s programmes. Family members participate on the same basis as other participants and do not receive favourable treatment, rather they are treated as any other beneficiary. Purpose 2: Promote personal health and wellbeing. The benefits that flow from this are weight reduction, increased energy levels, stress reduction, better mental state. These benefits are demonstrated by our post programme surveys which specifically ask about these benefits and others. Again there is a minor risk of injury and we periodically bring in a physiotherapist to give injury prevention advice. The beneficiaries are again as purpose 1 the general population of Belfast. The Committee receive an incidental private benefit flowing from this purpose as a result of a number of family members also attending the Club’s programmes. Family members participate on the same basis as other participants and do not receive favourable treatment, rather they are treated as any other beneficiary. Purpose 3: to promote amateur athletics. The benefits that flow from this are inclusive of all the benefits of 1-2 getting children into early activity and keeping adults in a sustainable activity pathway. Furthermore, participation in athletics and athletic competition produces character, endurance, team spirit and promotes a lifestyle of health and fitness. We can demonstrate the benefits by the records of participation and post programme surveys plus there is research that links the specific health benefits to an active lifestyle. Again as with all physical activity there is a risk of injury so we provide injury prevention advice and post injury strengthening advice. The Committee receive an incidental private benefit flowing from this purpose as a result of a number of Committee members and their family’s also attending the Club’s programmes. Committee members and their family’s members participate on the same basis as other participants and do not receive favourable treatment, rather they are treated as any other beneficiary.
What your organisation does
We organise sustainable opportunities for people off all ages and all abilities to get into activity through athletics and improve their health. For adult beginners we organise free couch to 5K programmes three times a year over ten week periods leading to a local weekly parkrun. We then offer 10 week 5-10K programmes targeting a mass participation
event on completion. After that then we offer a recreational running group two nights a week and a competitive group another two nights The ability catered for is from the absolute beginner right up to commonwealth games standard. For the Juniors we have Sportshall Athletics for 8-11 year olds one night a week then Junior track and Junior endurance session for 11-18 year olds two nights a week. After age 18 the Juniors merge into the senior training
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of amateur sport
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Men
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Sport/recreation
- Volunteer development
- Youth development