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THE SURESH THARMARATNAM CARE AND HUMANITY FOUNDATION

Registered

  • Charity no. 110982
  • Company no. 728202
  • Date registered. 13/10/2026

Public benefits

Relief of need (financial hardship, ill health, disability or other disadvantage, including risk of homelessness): The direct benefits include improved financial stability for individuals and families, immediate access to essentials such as food and energy, reduced debt‑related stress and anxiety, improved physical and mental wellbeing

through timely support and greater housing security through the prevention or alleviation of homelessness. Relief of unemployment for people in poverty through access to education, training and work experience: The direct benefits include enhanced skills, qualifications and work readiness, increased confidence and motivation, improved employability and access to sustained paid work and, as a consequence, increased household income and reduced dependence on crisis support. Prevention and relief of poverty; advancement of education, the arts, health, citizenship and community development, public participation in sport, and environmental protection or improvement through supported programmes and initiatives: The direct benefits include reduced poverty and hardship, improved educational attainment and lifelong learning, enhanced cultural participation, creativity and community cohesion, better physical and mental health and healthier lifestyles, stronger, more capable community groups with increased civic participation and increased participation in sport with associated health and wellbeing gains. Evidence will include records of assistance, referrals, arrears prevented or cleared, access to food and energy and tenancy sustainment together with beneficiary feedback, case studies and validated wellbeing measures showing reduced stress and improved health. For unemployment relief via education, training and work experience, we will track enrolments, attendance, accredited qualifications, work placements and job outcomes, including sustained employment, with follow‑up surveys on income, confidence and work‑readiness. For wider anti‑poverty, education, arts, health, community, sport and environmental programmes, we will use participation in cultural activity, health scales/clinical proxies, volunteering, governance and civic participation and regular sport and wellbeing indicators. Data will come from monitoring returns, surveys, registers and partner reports, with regular trustee review to ensure benefits remain identifiable, measurable and attainable. No The beneficiaries are the public, or sections of the public, who fall within the categories set out in the Articles, namely: Individuals and families in need by reason of financial hardship, ill health, disability or other disadvantage, including those at risk of homelessness. People in poverty who are unemployed and require support to access education, training and/or work experience leading to paid employment. Individuals, families and communities who benefit from programmes to prevent or relieve poverty, advance education, the arts and health, strengthen citizenship and community development, increase public participation in sport, and protect or improve the environment. Where the Foundation funds or supports community organisations to deliver programmes, the ultimate beneficiaries are the service users who fall within the categories above. No

What your organisation does

The Foundation will relieve need through means‑tested grants for essentials (food, energy and urgent costs), crisis grants to prevent homelessness, and signposting to specialist support (debt, welfare, social work, food and energy). To relieve unemployment among people in poverty, the Foundation will fund accredited education and training,

subsidise costs, and provide stipends for travel, childcare and digital access. It will broker work placements and employability programmes, support progression to sustained work through mentoring and job‑search support. To prevent or relieve poverty and advance education, the arts, health, citizenship and community development, sport, and environmental protection, the Foundation will design or fund targeted programmes delivered directly or via grants and co‑funding to community organisations. Activities may include learning support, community arts, health promotion, capacity building, inclusive sport and environmental improvements. All activity will remain charitable, with trustee oversight, proportionate due diligence and outcome monitoring to evidence public benefit.

The charity’s classifications

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • General public
  • General public
  • General public

How the charity works

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Community development
  • Community development
  • Grant making
  • Grant making

Charitable purposes

To relieve those who are in need by reason of financial hardship, ill health, disability or other disadvantage (whether as a consequence of changes in welfare provision or otherwise; and including, without limitation, those who may be at risk of homelessness) by providing them with financial assistance and/or referring them for support to organisations and/or agencies including (where appropriate) those who provide money advice, debt advice, advice on welfare rights, social work support, food banks, food parcels or assistance with meeting energy costs; To relieve unemployment by providing financial assistance to individuals who are in a state of poverty to enable them to access educational, training and/or work experience opportunities which will increase their prospects for obtaining paid employment; To prevent and/or relieve poverty, advance education, advance the arts, advance health, advance citizenship and community development, advance public participation in sport, advance environmental protection or improvement and/or relieve those who are in need by reason of financial hardship, ill health, disability or other disadvantage, by developing, supporting (whether financially and/or through assisting with funding applications and/or by other means), co-ordinating and/or delivering a range of programmes and initiatives directed towards one or more of those aims;

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

  • 8 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mrs Sonia Michelle Cheetham
  • Mrs Ashling Josephine Green
  • Mr Roger John Kennedy
  • Mrs Gemma Smyth
  • Mr Jonathan Mark St Clare
  • Mr James Chandran Tharmaratnam
  • Dr Suresh Tharmaratnam
  • Mr Stephen James Wills

Contact details

Public Address

Mr Suresh Tharmaratnam, 6 Croft Road, Holywood, BT18 0PB

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland

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