Registered
- Charity no. 109993
- Date registered. 16/07/2024
Public benefits
What are the direct benefits flowing from your organisation's purposes? The benefits flowing from our purpose is that we will provide opportunities for all tenants at Tearmann Fold to engage by creating and encouraging a sense of community within Tearmann Fold leading to regular events and social activities for over 55’s living independently within
Tearmann Fold and surrounding area of Belfast Northern Ireland.Helping to reduce social isolation and loneliness suffered by many, made worse because of the pandemic. We will be providing daily, weekly and monthly events and activities for everyone to attend within Tearmann Fold Common Room and outside garden area encouraging everyone to attend, the events will be within the safe surroundings areas of Tearmann Fold with individuals not having to leave the building ensuring they are attending an event in a familiar environment, not having to travel making it easier to leave their apartment and socialise at the event. This all will help improve Mental Health and Wellbeing by having regular calendars events to look forward to and socialising with likeminded individuals their own age group. How can the benefits identified above be demonstrated? Tearmann Fold Tenants Association will identify the benefits by carrying out regular post evaluation surveys after events/activities to receive feedback on the events/activities on how we can improve the events, at meetings we will add onto the agenda of Meetings Events Feedback. This will demonstrate any learnings to ensure we continue to hold events/activities that people want to attend. The Tenants Association will record the numbers of attendees at events and recognise if the number of attendees is small then people aren’t interested in this type of event and change the events depending on the needs, wants and requests from the beneficiaries. Is there any harm arising from any of the purposes? None. Who are the charity's beneficiaries? All the tenants living within Tearmann Fold Tenants Associations. Is there any private benefit flowing from any of the purposes? Is it incidental and necessary? None.
What your organisation does
Tearmann Fold is an independent scheme for over 55's living in the heart of Belfast. We encourage all our tenants living within the scheme to get involved in the various activities that we have organised to include: coffee mornings, lunch clubs, brunch dates, bingo sessions, reading programmes, computer classes to improve digital skills, gardening
club and outside chats on the benches, helps offer a variety of events to suit the needs and requirements for all the tenants living within Tearmann Fold.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- Older people
How the charity works
- Community development
- General charitable purposes