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Boho Community Association

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £24.1K

  • Spending

    £13.6K

  • Charity no. 103915
  • Date registered. 02/03/2016

Public benefits

The direct benefits which flow from these purposes include provision of a wide range of activities and projects of an educational, social and recreational nature mainly based within Boho Community Centre for members of the local community living within the Boho District, members of other neighbouring communities within County Fermanagh and visitors

to the area; providing them with the opportunity to avail of activities and projects that relieve poverty, sickness and problems faced by the aged and assist improve their educational attainment, health, social interaction and their conditions of life through accessing services and activities that would not normally made available to them. Examples of activities provided being Keep Fit, Social Dancing, Old Tyme Dances, Senior Citizens Club, Boho Heritage Society meetings and exhibitions, Funeral Teas, Family Parties, Health Fairs, Farmers Information Courses & Talks, Coffee Mornings, Yoga classes, Sports Days, use by Boho Youth Club, use by Bowling Club, use by other charitable bodies for activities and functions. The Community Centre building is also the location of the Bo-Peeps Playgroup providing preschool education for 25 children. Many of these activities are organised by the association linking with other statutory organisations and voluntary organisations. Benefits of the activities are evidenced by measurement of numbers participating in activities and receiving of feedback from participants. The only private benefits flowing from our purposes are that Boho Community Association members and their families can participate in all activities and this is incidental and necessary to ensure that all members of the district can potentially benefit. There is no harm flowing from the purposes of Boho Community Association.

What your organisation does

Boho Community Association was established in 1992 in the rural community of townlands centered on the boho area, with members of association being drawn from throughout the community living in this area. The most significant work of the association has been acquiring a site and securing the funds to convert a disused national school into a

purpose built community facility including a multi purpose hall and playgroup area, known as boho community centre. This centre opened in 1999 and since then has been very well used by members of the local community and visitors to the area for a range of education, social and recreational activities. The group also in recent years secured funds form the DSD moderisation scheme to modernize the community centre by adding a kitchen and activity/meeting room. Many activities are organised by the association, linking with other statutory organisations and voluntary organisations such as Boho Heritage Association, Boho Womens Group and Bo-peeps Playgroup.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • 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

Who the charity helps

  • Men
  • Older people
  • Women

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Education/training
  • Welfare/benevolent

Charitable purposes

The association is established to relieve poverty, sickness and problems faced by the aged and to promote the benefits of the inhabitants of the Boho district and its environs in County Fermanagh (hereinafter called the ‘area of benefit’) without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, class, marital status, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary and community sector organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education, and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants and in particular: (i) to maintain and manage a premises or centre or centres in the area of benefit for activities promoted by the Association (hereinafter called 'the centre').

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • 14 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 20 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mr Damian Mcafee
  • Mrs Mona Mcgrath
  • Mrs Mary Duffy
  • Mrs Rose Mchugh
  • Mrs Resha Rasdale
  • Mr Patrick Maguire
  • Mr Francis Rasdale
  • Mrs Margaret Corrigan
  • Mrs Gretta Farmer
  • Mrs Louise Mclaughlin-Borlace
  • Mrs Rose Corrigan
  • Mrs Anne Leonard
  • Mrs Aileen Mckenzie
  • Mr Ross Corrigan

Contact details

Public Address

Mrs Margaret Corrigan, Boho Community Hall, 184 Boho Road, Tullyholvin Upper, Boho, Enniskillen, BT74 5BE

List of regions

  • Fermanagh And Omagh District Council

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