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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£63.9K
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Spending
£60.5K
- Charity no. 103639
- Date registered. 28/08/2015
Public benefits
The public benefits that flow from this purpose are decreased financial and social exclusion through our benefits outreach service. Increased access to educational services through provision of classes, especially IT, which lessens the digital divide. Reducing the risk of poverty through increasing older people’s access to statutory and community
anti-poverty programmes. Improving the health and well-being of older people through facilitation of healthy ageing programmes. Reducing social isolation through promotion of social activities for older people. These benefits are evidenced through the numbers of older people accessing our services, feedback from clients and the amount of money claimed by our advice service users. The benefiaries of our purpose are elderly people within the North Belfast area. There is no harm or private benefit from our purpose.
What your organisation does
North Belfast Senior Citizens Forum (NBSCF) is a organisation seeking to improve the lives of older people in North Belfast. We run an outreach benefits advice service targeting older people and their carers in their own homes. We will also run outreach advice clinics in community and other centres. We also represent the interests of older people
in North Belfast to a range of voluntary and statutory providers. We survey our members regularly and follow up their concerns with bodies such as the Belfast healthe and Social Care Trust and the NI Housing Executive. We run a range of healthy ageing acivities to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in North Belfast. We run computer/IT classes for older people in North Belfast. We hope to address the increasing digital divide through this means.
The charity’s classifications
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Older people
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Relief of poverty