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Summerhill Foundation Limited

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £1.8M

  • Spending

    £544.3K

  • Charity no. 108509
  • Company no. 685004
  • Date registered. 16/03/2022

Public benefits

Parents and caregivers will benefit from access to professionally researched parenting and well-being courses plus other activities for children and families. Parents and caregivers will acquire new parenting skills, develop self-awareness and improve their emotional well-being. This will benefit children with better cohesion and improved family

relationships. Children will benefit from programs to develop their resilience and coping mechanisms to overcome adverse circumstances, improve their confidence within school and community environments and build on a positive outlook to life. International students from disadvantaged backgrounds will benefit from financial support, grants and scholarships for a range of educational projects. Children, young people and adults living with advancing progressive conditions, and their families, will benefit from specialist palliative care services and support (including but not limited to physical, social, spiritual and psychological support) in Northern Ireland. Our support for parents and children will be in the form of a range of training courses, workshops and other professionally designed activities. These benefits will be evidenced by feedback and evaluation forms completed by participants, partner organisations or school staff. Benefits will also be evidenced by the number of participants taking part and supported by the various programmes and projects. There is no harm flowing from this purpose. Preschool (0-5-year-olds) Children (5-16-year-olds) Youth (14-25-year-olds) Voluntary and community sector Parents/Carers Specific areas of deprivation Voluntary and community sector The only private benefit flowing from this purpose is that staff and trustees involved in the preparation and delivery of programmes, workshops or training sessions will benefit from the knowledge they have gained which is incidental and necessary to ensure good governance of the charity.

What your organisation does

Our purpose is achieved by awarding grants and funding the design, delivery and management of educational and well-being programmes for children and their caregivers. This includes in particular the provision of books, educational equipment, training delivery and support. On an international level this includes, among others projects, awarding

educational scholarships. Our purpose will also be achieved by the targeted funding of specialist palliative and respite end of life services to patients and their families.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • Other charitable purposes

Who the charity helps

  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • General public
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Overseas/developing countries
  • Parents
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Education/training
  • General charitable purposes
  • Grant making
  • Medical/health/sickness

This display is a broad summary of the charity’s financial information. For a full understanding of the charity’s finances, the reader should view the PDF accounts and reports under the Documents tab above.

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £1.8M

  • Spending

    £544.3K

Income

£1.8M

Spending

£544.3K

Charitable purposes

The charity will promote, advance and further its objects (‘Objects’) by support, financially and otherwise, of projects which provide a public benefit, through the use of assets, to fund and invest in those projects. The Objects are restricted specifically to the promotion of the following purposes for the benefit of the public: The advancement of education by supporting programs which advance knowledge and educational attainment, in particular, within areas of deprivation in Northern Ireland and internationally. This includes, but is not limited to, awarding grants and direct funding to support the design and management of educational and well-being programs and activities for children, parents, guardians and care-givers and the sponsorship of students undertaking further studies. The advancement of health or the saving of lives and the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. In particular, this includes, but not limited to, the funding of specialist palliative and respite end of life services to patients and their families; Such other exclusively charitable purposes according to the law of Northern Ireland.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
  • Internationally
  • Burma
  • Ethiopia
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Malaysia
  • Tanzania
  • Zimbabwe

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