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CRAIGMORE & DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £17.0K

  • Spending

    £23.4K

  • Charity no. 108296
  • Company no. 614064
  • Date registered. 09/12/2021

Public benefits

The direct benefits that flow from our purpose, include; improving quality of life, reducing isolation and supporting those suffering from disadvantage within our catchment area. By providing facilities and activities, we develop and maintain community spirit, improve physical and social infrastructure in our community to increase skills, social

integration and ensure equal access for all. These benefits are demonstrated through the number of user groups and individuals participating in our activities and booking our facilities. To evidence the direct benefits, we carry out evaluations of our ongoing work through feedback from participants and qualitative assessments such as baseline audits with project participants at the beginning and comparisons at the end of the project. We also keep a record of the number of bookings and different user groups who make use of our activities and facilities. There is no harm flowing from our organisation’s purposes. The charity’s beneficiaries are the people of Maghera and surrounding district area. The only private benefit flowing from our organisations purposes are that Craigmore & District Community Association committee members and their families can participate in all activities and this is incidental and necessary to ensure that all members of the area can benefit.

What your organisation does

We are a local community association which provides support to the local residents of the Maghera Area. The association works our of the Glen Centre in Maghera which provides us with the facilities to engage with our community by running a range of activities. The glen centre has a multipurpose community hall, training room, communal kitchen,

meeting space and parking which are used by other local groups i.e. schools, sports clubs, local residents for private bookings and statutory organisations, whom we work closely with to further our organisations purposes. We run a number of community led activities, such as mother and toddler programmes; exercise classes for men and woman i.e. Pilates and mens keep fit programmes; Irish dancing; mens cooking classes; health and wellbeing workshops; sports activities for children i.e. Fundamentals and basic skills, multi spots programmes; art classes; educational and training workshops, i.e. IT workshops, CV writing; seasonal schemes i.e. summer camps for primary and secondary school aged children; age friendly programmes; bingo and community events. In addition to the above programmes, we aim to run other needs led programmes which help to improve the lives of local people and further our objectives. Our charity is run by 10 trustees, who raise funds through fundraising, donations and grant making.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of citizenship or community development

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • General public
  • Men
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Parents
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Education/training
  • Relief of poverty
  • Sport/recreation
  • Volunteer development
  • Youth development

Charitable purposes

To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Maghera & District and its environs without distinction of gender, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, or political, religious or other opinion by associating with the statutory authorities, voluntary and community organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to: (a) promote community development by providing facilities, support and information for community and voluntary groups and organisations and encouraging and assisting such organisations to co-operate to achieve their aims; (b) provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupations with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said residents; (c) relieve those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability or other disadvantage; (d) advance education and training and the arts and culture; (e) promote amateur sport and participation in healthy recreation; (g) promote good community relations and social cohesion, racial harmony and equality and diversity.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 10 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mr Sean Martin Keane
  • Mr John Martin Bradley
  • Mr Conor Molloy
  • Mr Ciaran Molloy
  • Mr Eamonn Higgins
  • Mr Damien Mccusker
  • Mr Paul Bryson
  • Mr Finbar Mcgilligan
  • Mrs Aine Bradley
  • Mrs Aine Mcconomy

Contact details

Public Address

Mr, 16 Coolnasillagh Road, Maghera, Co. Derry, BT46 5LJ

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