Registered
- Charity no. 110650
- Date registered. 23/09/2025
Public benefits
What are the direct benefits flowing from your organisation's purposes? Before 2014, years of no Summer City festival. August five day festival for all ages, genders, beliefs and cultures. It is for all residents of Newry and visitors to Newry. A varied range of events. Arts, Heritage and local environment are highlighted. Arts, trad, classical and
popular music, poetry for all ages and skill levels, Dance, Irish and Ethnic, Caricature and painting including Indian tradionational painting, Children's events. Beats on the Street cycle tour. Dancing On The Greens that go to six Community associations areas for outdoor performance of dance, music and Cross Community choir. Festival highlights Newry in a positive way, plus existence of the many Arts, Sports and other other organisations. Varied performance venues, especially churches that would have been off limits to certain residents and visitors. The festival is about making new relationships, creating new future events to include more people. it breaks down barriers that exclude or isolate. The trad cruises are about the heritage of Newry ship and boat canal, Not commercially used since the !970s. Wall murals with a theme that enhance the local environment, Co-operation with Volunteer Now to ensure volunteers are well looked after and respected. The Flotilla 2024 from Carlingford, highlighted the workings of Victoria locks, to become an annual event. Cross border partnership will encourage local groups to link up with cross border groups. Works shops after August, encouraging young and old to partake in percussion learning, creating poetry. Irish Language development with understanding other and their culture due to the influence of a local Indian dance group that performs. ICF assisting this group with creation of a local Mela in September. ICF promotes the potential for creativity, Fusion being a future theme for workshops. Local GAA clubs opened for new residents and visitor who see walls etc as barrier's Have to increase our volunteer numbers festival has limited expansion plans How can the benefits identified above be demonstrated? Feedback that ICF sees now as so essential from audience members, performers, Volunteers and members of the public. This feedback at review stage tells ICF if an event is working and if not, what has to be done to make it more positive or to cancel. Feedback at individual events can demonstrate the potential to expand or not. Audience numbers though ICF is working with Thrive on this on how to increase numbers. The varied performance spaces has been commented positively by performers and audience members. This indicates that the organisers do listen to feedback and do act positively. When performers interact with other participants this can lead to creating new events. The idea of workshops after or before August festival came from chat between volunteers and performers. The committee have collected video footage and photographic evidence of events. this is used to advertise the Festival, to demonstrate that it is for all, ages, genders and Cultures Is there any harm arising from any of the purposes? All events are risked assessed, even at creation stage. All precautions are taken but the unknown is something any festival has to deal with. ICF have asked all volunteers if they would undertake first Aid training, a map is issued to volunteers of where all life buoys are situated along with location of defibrillators whether interior or exterior. The health and safety of all volunteers, all audience and all performers is a priority of the organisors. This means increasing our number of volunteers and offering training along side this. The unknown is something that can only be reacted to even if all precautions have been taken. The two events we take great care are, assessed with risk of harm or injury, daily Trad cruises and Beat On The Streets cycle city tour! So far nothing to report but we stay vigilant Who are the charity's beneficiaries? Direct beneficiaries, residents of Newry of all ages, genders and beliefs. whether the resident has been here a long time or just arrived. Second beneficiaries are visitors/tourists from outside of the Newry area, whether they come from the island of Ireland or further a field. Performers who partake in the various festival events Businesses in Newry will benefit in some way as people arrive as visitors/tourists, they will be seeking food, fuel for cars and possibly accommodation. Businesses that hire out venue space for performance will also experience benefit. Arts, language, churches, ethnic, Community associations, groups that exist also benefit for the festival. Organisations like Volunteer Now, Newry Bid and any other organisation that co-operates with ICF in ensuring the festival occurs. benefit. The last beneficiaries are the volunteers who help out at various stages due to their roles of responsibility with ICF before, during and after the festival . Is there any private benefit flowing from any of the purposes? Any private benefit would be incidental. Our purposes are about creating, maintaining, sustaining and limited expansion of an August City focused festival, ICF. Those who have created, maintain, sustain and planned limit expansion are all volunteers, ICF have no part/full time staff but that is not to say that this may occur in the future. At no stage of development was there ever planned private benefit foreseen, If it has occurred then it is incidental
What your organisation does
Iur Cinn Fleadh is a five day Arts festival that finishes on August Bank holiday. Iur Cinn Fleadh has no part/full time staff or office premises. It was set up and been maintained since 2014 by its small core of volunteers. Each year planning takes place of events to satisfy all ages and interests, Included is the planned creation of wall murals
within Newry city. Trad cruises allow people to sail upon Newry Ship Canal, Dancing on the Greens involves co-operation with local Community groups. Since 2023 Iur Cinn Fleadh has been able to include an Ethnic dance group. There are children's events, poetry and even a cycle tour with an Irish rapper leading the cyclists. Iur Cinn fleadh believes in breaking down barriers that isolate or exclude. We have events that develop the Irish Language and events for cross community ineraction. The group has a dedicated funding officer who sets out to attain the required funds for this event. Since 2024 to increase awareness of Iur Cinn Fleadh and to open new funding streams, Iur Cinn Fleadh has a formal cross border link with an organisation that in 2024 sent a flotilla of boats up Carlingford lough and into Victoria locks to sail on the ship canal. Through our Cross community approach, certain churches have gratefully opened up their churches to become performance spaces. Since 2023 Iur Cinn Fleadh has co-operated with Volunteer Now to increase the number of volunteers during the five day festival. We are focused on increasing the size of our committee to include more young people, more female inclusion and to encourage more involvement from ethnic groups that reside within Newry. Due to the make up of our volunteers we are limited in what we have done and will do. We maintain the festival but know expansion is limited due to the pressures on our volunteers at all levels. The volunteers believe in the future potential of Iur Cinn Fleadh. This is our driving force to achieve more within limitations,
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- 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
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Ethnic minorities
- General public
- General public
- Older people
- Physical disabilities
- Voluntary and community sector
How the charity works
- Arts