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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 24 Aug 2023
- Charity no. 105021
- Date registered. 20/07/2016
Public benefits
Supporting the Cathedral Board in the preservation of the fabric of the cathedral, supporting its maintenance, its activities and services, its ornaments and furnishings thus enhancing all aspects which promotes interest in its architecture, history, artworks, music, service and civic occasions. (1) to ensure the general public may appreciate the
beauty of the building; (2) to ensure the general public may visit the building in the knowledge that health and safety is paramount to the duty of care in encouraging people into the cathedral; (3) the public benefit is in ensuring that the general public interest is stimulated through visual/audio aids which have been acquired through grants from the charity, such as Visitor Guides; Titanic Pall; (4) the public benefit is in encouraging greater interest, particularly in students, in undertaking research projects for educational purposes; (5) the charity’s beneficiaries are the general public, not only in Northern Ireland but nationally and internationally. Members undertake duties as volunteers to welcome and inform visitors. There are no private beneficiaries.
What your organisation does
Encourages a mutual interest in the work of the cathedral through meetings and through twice annual outings. Sharing experiences with those who work in and for the cathedral.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- General public
How the charity works
- Grant making
Charitable purposes
(1) to make grants to the Cathedral Board (the cathedral being the Cathedral Church of St. Anne, commonly referred to as Belfast Cathedral) for the preservation of the fabric of the cathedral for public benefit; (2) to support the Cathedral Board in the protection, improvement and maintenance of the cathedral for the public benefit; (3) to support the Cathedral Board in its work in promoting and encouraging the education of the public in the history of the cathedral, its ornaments and its furnishings whether through stewardship, guided tours or exhibitions; (4) to support the Cathedral Board in encouraging and fostering research into the history of the cathedral, its work within the wider community and through disseminating the results through reports and other documents; (5) to support the work of the cathedral through members giving their personal services by promoting, as far as may be charitable in law, public interest in the cathedral, its culture, its history and its work.