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Cookstown Community Cancer Charity

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  • Charity no. 104595
  • Date registered. 18/05/2016

Public benefits

From the purpose of the charity the benefits of this purpose are provided to those diagnosed with cancer and to their families, carers or helpers. The private benefit from the purpose is that some of the members of trustee have either been diagnosed with cancer or have a close family member going through the illness. The trustee has been

through the experience and can offer support to others in a way only she is aware of. • The purpose of support to beneficiaries and their family, carers or helpers is derived from a trustee who has been through the process and is well aware of how they are feeling. • The purpose of using therapeutic services is to offer beneficiaries, carers, family or helpers with alternative, which can help reduce stress, pain and other symptoms. • The purpose of using recreation activities for the beneficiaries, family, carers or helpers helps create a social outlet, the opportunity to learn new skills, develop a new hobby and the ability to express individualism. • The propose in having the ability to access information, advice gives the beneficiaries, family, carers and helpers the opportunity to speak to someone going through similar experience and a more informal support. • The purpose of raising awareness within the community is to enhance the beneficiaries’ opportunities, experiences and raise the awareness around the illness cancer with in the area. From the purpose of the charity the benefits of the purpose of promoting the voluntary and community sector by providing facilities is to give beneficiaries a welcoming environment, situated in the heart of the community with access available to everyone including those with a disability. It also creates awareness of the increase of the illness within the local community and fosters a hub with additional and alternative support to the public.

What your organisation does

The Cookstown Community Cancer Charity offers holistic therapies to cancer patients and the rest of the community. The organisation takes the approach that therapy can work alongside medicine to help relieve pain and stress. The organisation also offers advice and guidance to the community to address welfare and educational needs. The charity

offers light exercise including yoga and meditation.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Carers
  • Older people
  • Specific areas of deprivation
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Disability
  • Education/training
  • Medical/health/sickness

Charitable purposes

The charity's purpose are to: (a) Relieve sickness and distress and promote the benefit and well-being of people suffering from cancer (the beneficiaries) in the Cookstown area and its environs (the area of benefit) by: • Fostering an atmosphere of mutual support and encouragement among the beneficiaries and their relatives, helpers, carers and friends • Providing or arranging for the provision of reflexology, massage, counseling and other therapeutic services • Providing facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life among the beneficiaries and their relatives, helpers and carers. • Providing information, advice and referrals to health workers and professional medical staff. • Raising awareness among the general public and among health care professionals of the needs and experiences of people with cancer (b) Promoting the voluntary and community sector by providing facilities and amenities to community and voluntary groups and organisations based in the area of benefit.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • 3 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mr John Attewood
  • Mrs Anne Attewood
  • Ms Martha English

Contact details

Public Address

Anne Attewood, 24 Oldtown Street, Cookstown, County Tyrone, BT808EF

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland

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