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Project Africa Athletics

  • Removed

  • This charity was removed from the register on 17 May 2022
  • Charity no. 103288
  • Date registered. 09/06/2016

Public benefits

Promote athletics and sport within rural areas of Kenya What benefit flows from the purpose? The prevention of poverty: our project allows our athletes to invest back into their rural villages in Kenya and Uganda and begin sustainable projects through the race winnings in which they may receive through their running and sporting endeavours in the

UK and Ireland. By developing a fully equipped athletics camp our athletes can have the benefit of training in good facilities as well as developing sustainable projects such as growing crops and small scale farming. This also benefits the public as they are gaining employment and reinvesting in their own community (in this instance it is Eldama Ravine). Can you demonstrate this? Yes. Through feedback from specific athletes from Eldama Ravine who have been directly involved with Project Africa Athletics; also our website and Facebook page contain direct evidence. As the project evolves the benefits outlined above will be evidenced through feedback from future athletes as well as evaluations at our AGM and committee meetings. Is there any harm or possibility of harm? No. Who is the benefit for? The charity’s beneficiaries are Local athletes living within the village of Solian, in the Eldama Ravine region of Kenya. Coaches living within the village of Solian, in the Eldama Ravine region of Kenya. Is there any private benefit? No.

What your organisation does

We are an athletics based organisation assisting up and coming athletes from rural Uganda and rural Kenya. We assist athletes who have the required talent to potentially make a small living out of their running ability, but lack the support structures to pursue a career in athletics. How we do this is through setting up a training camp in the

rural villages in which our athletes come from. We aim to identify talented athletes in need, provide them with the support structures required and then give them the opportunity to compete as sub elite distance runners outside of Kenya and Uganda. We operate an athlete exchange program were we bring a select number of unknown athletes to the UK and Ireland each year to compete in various races. We host them and support them while they are here, with the hope that through their race winnings they can go back to their villages and begin developmental programs such as sustainable farming etc to support others in need. We operate mostly in Ireland and the UK.

The charity’s classifications

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

Who the charity helps

  • Overseas/developing countries

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Economic development
  • Education/training
  • Grant making
  • Playgroup/after schools
  • Relief of poverty
  • Sport/recreation
  • Youth development

Charitable purposes

3.1 The Association is established to promote athletics and sport within rural areas of Uganda and Kenya, as a way of developing an area(s) that have high levels of poverty and unemployment. The 3 main areas of work are- 1) Solian Village, Rift Valley Kenya, 2) Kapchorwa District Uganda, 3) Tororo Uganda (hereinafter referred to as the “beneficiaries”) without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, 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 sport for development or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said beneficiaries and in particular: a) to provide facilities for the beneficiaries to train from in order to enhance their athletic ability, and realise their talents. Also develop sustainable trades through teaching skills in language, agriculture, manufacture and repair, project management and accountancy; b) to promote awareness among the general public of the work of the Association and of the needs of the beneficiaries in the area of benefit; c) the recruitment, selection and sending out of volunteers for short term service within the area of benefit, as highlighted above.

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