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European Women Charitable Association

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  • Charity no. 108624
  • Date registered. 16/03/2022

Public benefits

[What are the direct benefits flowing from your organisation's purposes?] European women and their families will overcome transition to Northern Ireland and will be provided support to overcome poverty or fails to integrate into local society. Conflicts based on race, culture, religious and language differences will be reduced or eliminated by

intermediating between European residents and Northern Ireland communities and by creating mixed ethnicity and cultural events for local communities. Preserving original European native culture and traditions through workshops, festivals, weekend classes Improve integration of newcomers into local society by teaching the European women the language, the customs, the habits, written and unwritten rules live in Northern Ireland. Diminish the effects of human trafficking, modern slavery, domestic abuse and business abuse by educating the European women and their families in their own native language Diminish the effects of poverty by providing material support (temporary housing, meals, clothes and domestic items) and by intermediating between the persons in needs and the relevant organizations and authorities that can improve their status Improve education of young European people by assisting in learning English and by providing material help as needed in order to have a continuous school presence. All such activities shall be performed in presence of their legal guardians. Improve education of European women through training in various skills [How can the benefits identified above be demonstrated?] Public visibility of all actions Permanent contact with representatives of the charity Quarterly Reports of activities including financial statistics Memorandums of collaboration between our organization and other legal entities Specific activities reports Public access to all details of each activity through our designated web page: EWANI.co.uk Feedback from all persons that has been beneficiary of our actions. No, we do not see any potential harm due to any of the charity purposes. Where mitigation between various conflicted parts is performed, we envisage full collaboration of concerned authorities (PSNI, Child Protection Agency, Housing Associations, Ombudsman office) that shall present sufficient protection to involved persons. A Risk Assessment shall be issued by the charity representative prior to initiate any such activity. [Who are the charity's beneficiaries?] European women resident in Northern Ireland and their direct families. Local communities where European families resides. No there shall be no direct private benefit from any of the purposes. However, we do envisage developing information and meeting centers where renovation works may be performed. Such works are compulsory for effectiveness of charity activities and shall be performed only at locations where long term lease is arranged. Therefore the private benefit is incidental and necessary.

What your organisation does

We use following methods in achieving our charitable goals: - Providing information and support for all issues related to life in Northern Ireland and integration in British society. - Organising workshops where newcomers to be taught the basics regarding accommodation, shopping, schooling, health etc. and how to access all governmental and

private services available in NI - Organising meetings, exhibitions, festivals, parties where European women to be able to show the specific of each area, traditions, foods, costumes etc and to make aware the local population of the extraordinary diversity developed in the rest of EU. - Organising support groups for improving social skills and education of specific national groups. It will be mainly related to mom and children playgroups, Sunday schools, arts & craft activities, communities . - Organising qualification/re-qualifications/accreditation of new or existing skills to help EU women finding a job easily in NI - Building strong relationship with similar local organisation (Women association NI and related) for ensuring a tangible effect of all our actions - Charitable actions to help women in distress and exceptional situation of crisis including relief of poverty. - Help and support for integration of specific ethnical groups subject to discrimination, race hate, languages barriers etc. - Improve intercommunity's relationships by creating mixed ethnic groups activities (cultural, sport, educational) - Organising specific national weekend classes where European children to learn and preserve national traditions and language - Organising workshops for awareness of human trafficking, modern slavery, domestic or business abuse etc. in native language of European residents

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
  • The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Community safety/crime prevention
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Interface communities
  • Language community
  • Parents
  • Specific areas of deprivation
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Victim support
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Arts
  • Community development
  • Counselling/support
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Cultural
  • Education/training
  • General charitable purposes
  • Human rights/equality
  • Playgroup/after schools
  • Relief of poverty
  • Urban development
  • Volunteer development

Charitable purposes

Prevention or relief of poverty. It has been identified a substantial number of European migrants arrived in Northern Ireland by being misled with regards to opportunities and living costs. Main intend of EWA-NI is to provide informational and material support to those European women who intend to evade from the state of poverty at the time when their current state of poverty became difficult to surpass or when it affects the family lifestyle and safety. Special attention will be given to single mothers but no support will be denied to anyone looking for help. Advancement of education. Due to inherent language barrier and lack of information regarding educational system in UK, many European women are not aware of their responsibilities, rights and opportunities regarding child and adult education. School registration, un-approved absences, school transferring, bullying situations, various code of practice of each school, previous studies equivalence procedures are amongst the most frequent issues that needs to be explained, most of the time in their native language. Advancement of culture and heritage. European Women Association intends to generate paths for inclusion of European various cultures in the Northern Ireland cultural life. Most of local population is not aware of the rich variety of traditions, music, dances, costumes, arts etc. specific to each of the European regions from where people are coming to Northern Ireland. The advancement of citizenship or community development. There are various discrepancies regarding community’s written or unwritten rules, habits, and citizenship behaviour between most of European countries and local Northern Ireland. We intend to act for making all European residents in Northern Ireland aware of such rules and help them integrate into the local communities. We are going to work for having the European citizens resident in Northern Ireland more involved in their communities’ activities. The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity Northern Ireland has a long history of segregation between various religious and national groups. We are looking to improve the links between groups considering the neutrality of European communities and lack of biased opinions.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • European Women Charitable Association in Northern Ireland

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland

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