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Belfast Centre for Arts & Technology

Registered

  • Charity no. 110440
  • Company no. 720231
  • Date registered. 29/07/2025

Public benefits

The charity will benefit individuals, particularly those who are economically inactive by developing vocational and remedial training programs and teaching job skills. The direct benefits of this are the raising of self-esteem, self respect, personal responsibility reliability, attendance, integrity, resilience and work ethics. These skills and

capabilities will help those served obtain and retain employment. The charity will also benefit the public through the arts. The charity will engage the community in the process of art making and artistic communication. The direct benefits of this are the stimulation of intercultural understanding and increasing appreciation and enhancement of their quality of life. It will also educate and inspire youth through the arts on their way to becoming productive citizens. These benefits can be demonstrated through the feedback of participants. There is no harm arising from any of the purposes. The charities beneficiaries are the individuals who participate in its programmes who will primarily be young people and those who are economically inactive. There is no private benefit arising from this purpose.

What your organisation does

The charity will design and administer job training programs for adults and artistic/cultural programs for young people. The charity will also engage in activities in support of these aims, including fundraising, outreach to and recruitment of the target populations, and collaboration with other organisations and governmental institutions,

including area employers. The charity will carry out these activities under the supervision of its board and the management of its Executive Director and other senior staff.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science

Who the charity helps

  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • General public
  • General public

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information

Charitable purposes

2.1 The Charity's objects are specifically restricted to the promotion of the following purposes for the benefit of the public: 2.1.1 The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science by: 2.1.1.1 educating and inspiring youth through the arts on their way to becoming productive citizens; and 2.1.1.2 engaging the community in the process of art making and artistic communication as a way to stimulate intercultural understanding, appreciation and enhancement of the quality of life. 2.1.2 The advancement of education by: 2.1.2.1 developing vocational and remedial training programs primarily to disadvantaged persons and dislocated workers and 2.1.2.2 teaching job skills, raising self esteem and self respect, personal responsibility, reliability, attendance, integrity, resilience and work ethics. 2.2 Nothing in the articles authorises an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act 2011 and or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 5 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Ms Caroline Armstrong
  • Dr Maire Deirdre Macbride
  • Mr Leigh Alexander Swinford Meyer
  • Mr Duncan John Morrow
  • Mr Stephen David Orr

Contact details

Public Address

Mr Stephen David Orr, Northern Ireland Science Park Found, Innovation Centre, Queens Road, Belfast, BT3 9DT

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland

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