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- Charity no. 108293
- Company no. 674364
- Date registered. 22/11/2021
Public benefits
The direct benefits which flow from purposes 1 through 5 as stated on the previous page include: 1. A higher level of engagement in the creative arts for children and young people who may not have previously been able to gain access due to rural location or socio-economic situation. 2. More inclusive access to high-quality creative arts for
children and young people in the local Limavady area, particularly for lower-income families. This direct benefit is realised due to a more affordable price for artistic activity comparative to larger towns and cities (by providing for free or heavily subsidized by organisation). 3. Bringing together an annual event that gives all children in attendance the same opportunity to engage with the arts regardless of ability, rural location or socio-economic status. 4. Building capacity of local artists and arts facilitators by providing training opportunities, in turn upskilling, creating opportunity for paid work, and increasing quality and professionalism of facilitators in the local area. 5. Working with stakeholders, funders and the local community to ensure ArtAbyss and its purposes remains a long term resource to benefit children and young people in the area. Ensuring that for years to come, accessibility to the arts remains a fair and equitable for the organisations beneficiaries. The benefits from purposes are demonstrated through: 1. 2056 children have attended ArtAbyss Children's Festival (ACF) since 2018 and 900+ children attending outreach. 2. ArtAbyss has covered the cost of transport for young people attending ACF to ensure equal access. ArtAbyss charges 25% of true activity costs for its annual festival, and to date has provided all workshops for free. 3. ACF is the only event of its kind in the area. Other events are typically city-based and charge on average £5-10 per performance or activity (ACF costs £5-10 for up to 5 activities, including cost of travel) 4. ArtAbyss has provided 20 volunteers with level 2 safeguarding, child mental health awareness, and 8 volunteers in workshop facilitation training. 5. ArtAbyss has grown audiences by 25% each year since 2018. We allow beneficiaries to choose their own activities for both ACF and for our outreach. Benefits measured by the same schools returning, bringing larger groups of students each year. The purposes of our charity may lead to becoming the preferred choice by schools for an end-of-year school trip, resulting in less custom for other activity providers locally. We can show that this harm is outweighed by the benefits through involving other local groups in our annual event as workshop providers, creating a programme of activity that provides wide-ranging opportunities for engagement. The charity's beneficiaries are children and young people of Northern Ireland, with a focus on hard-to-reach areas (rural locations and locations ranking highly in multiple deprivation measures). The only private benefit flowing from this purpose is the benefit is gained by the landlords of the annual festival site by means of payment for use of the land as a venue, and payment to contracting companies and artists for the production of ArtAbyss Children's Festival. This is incidental and necessary because without this outgoing cost the annual event could not take place and benefits from the event itself could not reach beneficiaries.
What your organisation does
'Improve the quality of life of children in rural Northern Ireland through the arts, and to make the arts an accessible and sustainable resource to children and young people in Northern Ireland.' Outreach & Workshops - ArtAbyss provides arts-based workshops and activities in the local area for schools and community groups, free of charge or
nominal costs, utilizing professional facilitators. ArtAbyss Children's Festival - ArtAbyss Ltd produces an annual dedicated children's festival for school children, programming high-quality artistic activity. This focuses on 2 key aspects: giving the child the choice over what activity they would like to take part in, and underpinned by our values: Accessibility (access regardless of ability, background or geographical location), Education (educating children and adults alike in how participation in the arts contributes to child development) and Encouragement (encouraging children that there are no right or wrong ways to be creative and that all ideas are important and valued). Training - To provide capacity building training opportunities (such as safeguarding, workshop development, health and safety etc.) for local artists and workshop providers to enhance their professional practice
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Mental health
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
How the charity works
- Arts
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Education/training
- General charitable purposes
- Playgroup/after schools
- Rural development
- Volunteer development
- Youth development