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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£130.3K
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Spending
£119.9K
- Charity no. 109367
- Date registered. 13/06/2023
Public benefits
PURPOSE 1: The direct benefits, which flow from advancing amateur sport and encouraging participation in sport, are that there will be increased physical fitness and improved mental health and social inclusion within the Ethnic Minority Community. PURPOSE 2: The direct benefits, which flow from promoting cultural diversity and racial harmony, are
that there will be a greater understanding between people from diverse backgrounds and local people. We will be seeking to cultivate a culture where people can use sport to celebrate values that bring people together, participate in sport without any discrimination while at the same time, we are determined to significantly defuse the perceived justification of a lack of opportunity as a reason for not integrating or isolated or inactive in sports. We are not only organizing sporting activities for activeness but also to bring different cultures together to break barriers mitigating against social inclusion. PURPOSE 3: The direct benefits, which flow from advancing the education of the beneficiaries in leadership, coaching, refereeing and organisation of sport events and related subjects, are that they will have the skills to be able to help develop the sporting potentials in others in the community to reduce disparity in participation and leadership. They will also have the skills and knowledge to provide a safe, supportive, and positive environment for young people and others to participate in various sporting activities. PURPOSE 4: The direct benefits, which flow from advancing human rights, conflict resolution, and reconciliation, are that there will be a greater understanding of human rights of sportspersons and to lessening of conflict between people from different backgrounds who participate in sport and at sport workplace to prevent disintegration and to promote peace, good relations, and good community relations. PURPOSE 1: These benefits can be demonstrated by the numbers of people participating in the various athletic activities that we organize. For example, our annual football tournament ‘Northern Ireland Confederation Cup’. It will also be demonstrated by providing sporting equipment to socially disadvantaged communities within the UK who cannot afford them. PURPOSE 2: These benefits can be demonstrated by showcasing our diverse cultures via sports and games and also specific cultural events. We do not only organize sporting events and tournaments to bring both the beneficiaries and local people together, but it is also a platform to showcase interculturalism. PURPOSE 3: These benefits can be demonstrated by the provision of facilities, courses, workshops, training, programmes, conferences, summits, and resources and the number of participants that attend the programmes and those that achieve accreditation. All our programmes will be evaluated. PURPOSE 4: These benefits can be demonstrated by the numbers of people participating in the mediation processes and feedback from the beneficiaries through the regular evaluation of services. In providing exercise programmes there is a risk of minor injury which may occur through increased participation in physical activity. This harm is outweighed by the benefits of improved health. The risk of injury is mitigated by way of health check assessments and guidance from fully qualified coaches in the correct use of equipment and training techniques within health and safety guidelines. The charity’s beneficiaries are Ethnic Minority Communities in Northern Ireland and also in the other parts of the UK. There are no private benefits accecting the trustees.
What your organisation does
EMSONI – Ethnic Minority Sports Organisation Northern Ireland is a proud recipient of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS) for providing inclusive platforms for the intercultural sporting activities, advocacy work, wellbeing and social action initiatives in Northern Ireland. The coordinator of the Deserve to Play - a youth led social
action movement. The organizer of Grassroots Sports Café - a community youth sport hub for interculturalism. It is the official organizer of Northern Ireland Confederation Cup (the biggest gathering of intercultural and intercommunity sport festival, held annually). EMSONI, an intercultural organisation, uses sports to engage young people with the aim of keeping peoples’ bodies healthy (both mental & physical well-being), works to identify gaps to deliver tailored social action campaigns to effect positive change, promotes fun-filled sporting programmes to foster connection towards a new dimension to peacebuilding and integration and empowers young people to achieve their full potential by providing access to employment, training, and support services. It is to increase meaningful sport participation and to improve performance based on equity, diversity and inclusion with the vision to strengthening shared, sustainable and sporty society.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of amateur sport
- 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
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Community safety/crime prevention
- Ethnic minorities
- General public
- General public
- Men
- Mental health
- Older people
- Parents
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Education/training
- Heritage/historical
- Human rights/equality
- Medical/health/sickness
- Playgroup/after schools
- Relief of poverty
- Sport/recreation
- Volunteer development
- Youth development