-
Status
Received: on time
-
Income
£8.3K
-
Spending
£7.0K
- Charity no. 109435
- Date registered. 11/05/2023
Public benefits
Empowering deaf women, promoting social inclusion, the advancement of education. Deaf women will be enabled to be fully participative in all aspects of society. Wider society will become more accessible to the needs of deaf women (BSL, ISL etc.). Direct benefits flowing from the group: • Having a safe space • Networking • Improve wellbeing
health • Realising we’re all in this together / realising they are not alone • Expressing emotions/thoughts without judgment • Exchange ideas and knowledge • Discuss matters affecting women • Feel the same • Safe place where to for help • Learn new things • Hungry to know information • Become more knowledgeable about their health • Understanding their rights as Deaf women • Understand social security and care entitlements / what benefits they are entitled to • Access to education to become more skilled in their own language • Be more awareness of their rights to protection • Improve mental health • Becoming more active in their society Vital and needed information is provided in BSL/ISL. Deaf Women are supported to be independent and fully participative. How benefits have been demonstrated • No. of participants turning up (increase) • Feedback • Signposting to the right support • Access to information via us by providing the workshops with interpreters, etc • Gain their knowledge/understanding from sessions (e.g their rights) • Become more active / more involved • Working more together with other Deaf women • Actively engage in service provision with more confidence and using interpreters • Expressing their lives have improved • Expressing their knowledge has improved and have more confidence in engaging in society • Improved mental health as not feeling isolated • Expressing improved understanding of their rights and entitlements • More included in society (Is there any harm arising from any of the purposes?) No (Who are the charity's beneficiaries?) Deaf Women in Northern Ireland (Is there any private benefit flowing from any of the purposes?) No
What your organisation does
To organise and manage events, workshops and information/training sessions whether alone or in conjunction with others. To raise funds (but not by means of taxable trading). To provide advice. To publish or distribute information. To co-operate with other charities, voluntary bodies and statutory authorities and to exchange information and
advice with them. To support, administer or set up other charities. To promote or carry out research. To borrow money and give security for loans (but only in accordance with the restrictions imposed by the Charities Act). To acquire or hire property of any kind. To sell, lease or otherwise dispose of property of any kind (but only in accordance with the restrictions imposed by the Charities Act). To make grants or loans of money and to give guarantees. To set aside funds for special purposes or as reserves against future expenditure but only in accordance with a written reserves policy. To insure the property of the Charity against any foreseeable risk and take out other insurance policies to protect the Charity when required. Subject to sub-clause 10.3, to employ paid or unpaid agents, staff or advisers. To enter into contracts to provide services to or on behalf of other bodies. To establish or acquire subsidiary companies to assist or act as agents for the Charity. To acquire, merge with or enter into any partnership or joint venture arrangement with any other charity formed for any of the purposes. To deposit or invest funds in any manner (but to invest only after obtaining such advice from a financial expert as the Trustees consider necessary and having regard to the suitability of investments and the need for diversification). To delegate the management of investments to a financial expert, but only on terms that: To do all such lawful things as are necessary for the achievement of the purposes.
The charity’s classifications
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Physical disabilities
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development