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Happy Days EIBF Ltd

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £139.7K

  • Spending

    £129.6K

  • Charity no. 104807
  • Company no. 613494
  • Date registered. 26/02/2016

Public benefits

The benefits which flow from our purpose include access to and engagement with world-class arts & cultural provision that otherwise would not exist in the area, to advance the education of the public in the understanding, awareness and value of the work of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett, and to showcase the heritage and natural beauty of

Fermanagh generating civic pride. These benefits are evidenced through the delivery of activities, numbers of people engaging, feedback from participants, volunteers, audience members & funders, profile in local, regional and national media and the independent evaluation of festivals. In encouraging significant number of people to some very rural &/or environmentally sensitive outdoor venues, there is a risk of unintended low-level environmental damage. However, we promote the ‘Leave No Trace’ ethos and we can show that this harm is outweighed by the benefits. The charity’s beneficiaries are the general public in Fermanagh, arts audiences from across the island of Ireland, Europe and beyond.

What your organisation does

We deliver a world-class arts & cultural programmes celebrating literature in the borderlands, in particular the life and work of Samuel Beckett in Co Fermanagh and other places related to him for local, regional and international audiences. We also celebrate other local writers including Oscar Wilde and Brian Friel as well as associated writers

and artists. With world-class theatre, music, art and talks with events taking place in a number of unusual venues including uninhabited islands, caves, cliff tops, abandoned buildings, churches and many others.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science

Who the charity helps

  • General public
  • Volunteers

How the charity works

  • Arts
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Heritage/historical
  • Volunteer development
  • Youth development

Charitable purposes

Advance the education of the public in the understanding, awareness and value of Nobel Prize Winner Samuel Beckett by fostering, promoting, developing and presenting the 'Enniskillen International Beckett Festival' being a festival containing a mix of international theatre, music, art, comedy and conversation from Irish, British and international artists and writers particularly, but not exclusively, in the county of Fermanagh.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • Happy Days / HD
  • 6 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 50 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mr Carlo Gebler
  • Mr Bill Morrison
  • Ms Mary Heaney
  • Mrs Orla Constant
  • Ms Nessa Mcgill
  • Ms Norma Sheila O Regan

Public Address

Ms Mary Heaney, 2 Oakridge, Middle Aston, Oxfordshire, OX25 5PX

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland

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