174TRUST
REPORT AND
FINANCIAL STATEKqENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
30 SEPTEMBER 2023

174 TRUST
TRUSTEES, ANNUAL REPORT
REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Trustees
Mr Gavin Pantridge
Rev. Prof J Patton Taylor MBE
Mrs Heather Carey
Dlrector
Rev. DR. Blll Shaw OBE
Principal Office
Duncairn CoMp￿X
Duncairn Avenue
Belfast
BT146BP
Northem IrelarKI
Charlty Number
XN62669AIAR
NIC 100531
Audltors
Harvey & Co Accountsncy Serdices Ltd
5 Wllowbank Road
Millbrook
Larne
Co. Antrlrn
BT40 2SF
Bankers
Danske Bank
PO Box 183
Donegal Square West
Belfast
BT1 GJS
Sollcitors
Hewitt & GIl￿n
14- 16 James Street South
Belfast
BT2 7GA

174 TRUST
TRUSTEES, ANNUAL REPORT 2022-23
The Trustees present their report along with the financial statements of the Trust for the
year ended 30 September 2023. The financial statements have been prepared in
accordance wth the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply
with the Trust's trust deed and The Charities (Accounts and reFK)rts) Regulations
(Northem Ireland) 2015.
174 Trust is approved by the Nl Charity Commission and registered NIC 100531.
Chairfs Report
Structure, governance and management.
The 174 Trust was established in the Duncalm l New Lodge area of Belfast, in 1983,
with a commitment to working for the good of the local community. The mission
statement highlights the aim of the Trust's work In stating "174 Trust Is committed to a
prO￿sS of Gommunity development based on building relationships with local people,
working together to identrfy and meet local needs. Th8 Trust works towards thls,
keeplng In mind the Trust's value base of "The proclamation of the Kingdom of God
through demonstrating Christ's value in action"
The trustees are appointed by the Board of Trustee5.
The Trustees during the year 2022123 were..
Rev Prof Patton Taylor MBE
Mrs Heather Carey
Mr Gavin Pantridge
Chair
statement of Gompliance with the duty to have regard to the Commlsslon's
guidance.
'In setting our objectives and planning our actlvities for the year the Irustees have given
careful consideration to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland's guidan￿ on
public benefit to ensure that the actlvities have helped to achieve the charity's purposes
arKI provide a benefit to the beneflciaries."
The day-to-day managem8nt of the trust has been delegated to the Management
Committee.
Chair..
Treasurer..
Member.,
Member.,
Member.
mem1￿r.
Member:
Mrs Heathér Carey
Mr David Vander Merwe
Mr Uavid Head
Mrs Audrey Petersen
Mrs Jane Grey
Ms Aisling Mccormick
Rev Prof Patton Taylor MBE
Secretary:
Mr Geoffrey Kerr
Senior Management Team:
DirectorlCEO:
Deputy Directorlsecretary:
Creative Director, Duncairn Arts Centre..
Rev Dr Imlliam Shaw OBE
Mr Geofftey Kerr
Mr Ray Giffen

Rlsk Management
The trustees have considered the major risks to which the trust is exposed and
established systems and procedures to manage those risks.
The trustees have a risk management Strategy which comprises:
An ongoing review of the principal risks and uncertainties that the charity faces.
The establishment of policies, systems, and procedures to mltigate those risks
identified.
The implementalion of prO￿dureS designed to minirnise or manage any potential
impact on the charity should those ri8k8 materialise.
This work has identified that finandal sustainablllty is the major fi'nancial risk for the
charity. A key eletnent in the management of financial risk is a regular review of
available liquid funds lo settle debts as they fall du8, regular liaison with the bank, and
active management of trade debtors and creditors balanc88 to 8nsure sufficient w0￿1ng
capital by the Trust.
Attention has also been focussed on non-financial rlsks arising from fire, health and
safety of artists and audlence, management of performing rights and food hygiene.
All these risks are managed by ensuring accreditation Is up to date, having robust
policies and procedures In place, and regular awareness training ft)r staff working in
these operational areas.
Obiectives and actlvities
The Trust is an interdenominational Christian Community Development organisation,
whose mission it is to "work with local people, helping them to identify and meet local
needs"
The Trust seeks to do this by providing an Inclusive, non-threatening and shared space
environment for individuals and groups to access programmes and to be involved in a
wid8 range of activities coverlng every age group from parent & toddlers to Senior
Citizens.
The Trust's local community work is focuss8d on North Belfast where there are few
cross-communlty groups and where there are very few, rf any, shared venues.
Publlc Benaflts
The advancement of citizenship or communlty development.
The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconclllatlon or the promotlon
of religious or racial hamiony or equality and diversity.
The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disablllly, fi'nancial
hardship nr 8nnthp.r rll8arlvanlHoe
The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage, or sdence.
The advan￿rnent of education
The Trust has developed the Duncairn Complex, and the Macrory Centre, as shared
spaces I neutral venues in North Belfast.
Achievement and performance
The Duncairn Complex continues to seTve as the base for the Trust's work and is used
to promote cross community opportunities. It is home to about 12 autonomous
groupsltenants and impacts on average 2,500 people most weeks throughout the year,
somg of whom are among thp mnst marginAli7p.d Hnrl ifl IlnRrahlR in ni Ir snr.ifity.
Actlvities
The Trust operates several projects includiro:

Pre￿ChoOl Nursery
The Nursery was established in 1995 to address the needs of the children in the New
LodgelDuncairn area of Noth Belfast.
It was registered for 24 children in this reporting period, aged between 2 years 10
months and 5 years. The nursery operates from Monday to Friday from 8.30 am to
12.30 pm within the fomier church halls of the Duncairn Complex. We are currently part
of the Government pre-school expansion programme and are funded by DE through the
Education ALrthority. The Education Authority provides the 174 Trust Nursery with
several free places ft)r children who are in their last pre-school year.
The Nursery ig approved by Social Services and Early Years registered, with all
members of staff having relevant childcare qualifications. The excellent Staff team is
committed to provide quality care and education in a slimulating and safe envlronment.
The children are offered a daily range of activities to encourage all aspects of their
development. The staff work closely with the Early Years Advisor and take on board
suggestlons on how to improve the childcare provision.
During this reporting year, the Deputy Leader left, and a new deputy leader was
recruited, however, she also left due to family circumstances and anoth8r deputy was
recruit8d. By Sept 23 we had a Leader {CCLD Level 5,) Deputy Leader (completing
CCLD Level 5) and an Assistant (CCLD Level 3.) Bank stafflcover continued to be
problem during this period.
We were oversubscrib8d for the academic year 22-23, with all 12 preschooler spaces
full and 9 pre-pre chlldren.
All children In the setting wer8 a8sessed using Wellcomm SpeeGh Assessment, All
preschool children were assessed using Boxall Assessment. These were used to
inform plannlng and support children's needs. 3 children received a statement of
SEN, meaning support for P1 was In place for starting prlmary school.
We took part In the Getting Ready to Learn programme, hostlng workshops for
parents and glving out book and play bags each weekend to all families.
We were able to host the following extracurricular activities for tha children; Jump,
Jiggle and Jive, Sonal Sportz, Jo Jingles, Amazon Jungle, Wee Critters and Kidzfarm
Nl. We also had a local artlst In over 6 weeks completlng art with the children and
hosting a Motherfs Day art morning. A Fathe¢s Day play and stay was also hosted
outside in our playground. All parents, events were very well altended. W8 continue
to have a very good relationship with CinemagiG, many of our families availed of free
tiGkets to their festival.
After-school Club
The After-school Club provlded an invaluable Servi￿ to the communlty for over 30
years, and supported hundreds of parentslnArers to pursue training andlor educatlon as
a way back into employment. The After-school Club was based on fun, friendship, and
lots of new 8xperiences - including help with homework- for 4-11-year-olds.
Daily activities were devised in consultation with the children, with the aim of instilling a
sense of self-respect, confiden￿, and resp8Ct for others.
Registered with Social servI￿s and approved for 18 plaG8s, also registered wÉth
PSayboard, and was Inspected annLially to png1.IfR a r,nnfini IHI qi IAlily nf prr)vision,
The excellent team of fully quallfied staff ensured that the chlldren had a valuable and
fun time from school pick up in our minibus to when parents collected them at the end of
the day.
Opening hours were 1.30 - 5.30pm every weekday throughout the school term.

Unfortunately, we never recovered our numbers afterthe Covid years, and our
attendance continued to be challenglng. This affected our income and meant we had to
look for additional financial support from other sources, using some of our unrestricted
funds to cover the costs of the project. At the end of last year, we completed an
evaluation of the project in regards its long4erm sustainability and very sadly the
decision was made to close the project in June 2023. This unfortunately meant that 5
members of staff were made redundant at that time. The associated redundancy
payments glso had an impact on our abllity to generate reserves, and therefore we
finished th8 year with a lower reserve amount than expected.
Disablllty Project
For over 30 years we have been involved in running activities for people with physical &
learning dlsabilities. In partnership with BHSCT, w8 aim to make issues like integration,
inclusion, self-confldence, individual dignity, and respect for others, accepted as normal
within society.
To this end we run the following clubs during the sthool term:
Tuesday's 4.30- 7.30pm Youth Club for young p80ple aged 11- 18 years.
Wednesday's 4.30 - 7.30pm Junior Club for children aged 5- 11 years.
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings are given over to the Junior and Youth
Clubs wlth the alm being the Integratlon of able-bodied and disabled people
through a wide range of activities provided In our large Indoor hall and a variety
of trips and leisure experiences throughout the year. We have over 30 children
from 5 - 18 years old involved in these two clubs.
Friday's 4 - 6 pm for adults aged over 18 years. We had 8 involved in the Adult
Disability Club this year. However, because this group of adults are amongst
some of the most vulnerable In soclety It was obvious some of our members had
deteriorated substantially throughout the pandamic and moblllty had become a
much gr8ater issue. The BHSCT pemiitted us to test out a new way of doing
things and allowed a new Coordinator time to contact each of the members and
begln the process of establlshing a new relationship with them,
We also maintained our new Monday evening group again durlng thls year and
confirmed it as a part of our permanent programme, (the group that started
during Covid in 2020) even though we had to continue to find the funding
ourselves to do so. There were a growing number of young adults aged 19- 25
years who had previously come through our youth programme and were finding
great difficulty in finding support once they reached adult age. We catered for
approximately 21 younq adults and as the year progressed, we found that the
group became a great support mechanism for each other. Awards for All
provided an amount of funding during this year, and we had discussions with
BHSCT to consider introducing a contracl for this age group,
Towards the end of the year, we formed a Carers Project for famllies and
carers to come together and provlde support to each other.
Led by our vastly experienced coordinators, the very dedicated teams of trained and
caring helpers & volunteers organise a range of activities focu5sing on life skills, health
& educational classes, social interaction, mixed with sp8cial trips out to add a little bit of
excltement for these very special people.. .and give som8 much-needed respite for
family and carers.
We continued to thrive with Ihe provision of our disability programme and provide a
Servi￿ for 40 famllles this year, with another 15 on a waiting list.

Duncaim Centre for Culture & Arts incorporating the Arts Outreach Programme.
Another highly successful year of creative and artistic delivery at The Duncairn
Centra for Culture & Arts.
Our Music Programme has excelled in year, delivering a mullifaceted programme for
all. We continue to shape a variety of projects that target new and emerging artists,
providing a range of opportunities such as our Here's Your ChanGe programme, open
to 16 to 25-year-olds and first-time perfomiers. We have further developed our
highly successful CreatlV8 Collective, now boastlng 30+ young multi artfom artists,
exploring and developing new work. collaborating with, and being mentored by
seasoned professional artlsts, all of which are now enhancing our Gig programme as
artists work to carve out careers in the contemporary and traditional Irish music
industry,
Workshops and classes go from strength to strength. not only are we providing
opportunities for engagement in an interesting range of classes at very competitive
prices, but we have also worked hard to 8trength&n our relationship with our
community, engaging them in the multi-layered aspect8 of our work. Our audiences
and participants return consistently, engaging in new music genres and new classes,
which means it is important to ascertain why they continue to connect with us over
other cholces within the cily, what are we bringing to the tabla that is different?
In truth, they are telling us we give them a volce, they feel heard, and they feel like
they belong. Their experiences and oplnlons are being explored through our Not A
M8n7bership Pmgramm8: a non-monetary value based approach to engaging the
community in helping shape the future of The Duncaim and north Belfast, and thls
process Is really informing our potential, and how we ar8 impacting on tha local
communlty.
Impact such as this is prlceless, Its prlceless because wlth this participation, the real
stories, and the real people we engage with, with their experiences and thelr opinion8
in our toolbox, we have the capacity to genuinely evidence our work at a grass roots,
socletal18V81.
Stories @ The Duncalrn
This year Stories @ The Duncairn is celebrating its first ten years of Shared Readlng,
reading aloud for pleasure, in the local community.
We currently deliver 3 weekly 'drop-in' sessions, In The Duncairn on Mondays and
Tuesdays, and in Belfast Central Library, supported by Libraries Nl staff on Fridays.
These groups are free and op¢n lo all. Weekly att8ndance totals around 35.
occaslonal attendance is closer to 60. Volunteer facilitators read aloud short stories
and poetry and open a conversation that engages people with great literature and
with one another.
Our volunteers also deliver other regular sesslons with the 174 Adult Disability
Group, with Mindwise, and with Mill Court on the Falls Rd.
We are also working with Queens University Belfast and Dementia Nl to support new
reading groups over the coming months.
In April our readers have been invited to curate and deliver a 'Dark Skies Fiction and
Poetry Walk, in the Waterworks, as part of the Right to the Night project. a Household
Project, supported by Belfast City Council.
In August 2023, the annual 'Scribes at The Duncairn, writers, panel featured Michelle
Gallan, Michael Magee, Lizz Murphy, and Tony Macaulay. With over 70 attending, It

was the largest audience to date, and once again the event was co-sponsored by the
Greater New Lodge Community Festival and Féile an Phobail.
We held two Christmas Shared Reading gatherings, with 46 attending, includjng
several new participants some of whom are now regulars at our weekly sessions.
Our reading team has att8nd8d several online masterclasses with The Reader
charity in Liverpool, who continue to support us with volunteer resources. The
Duncairn's project will be featured by The Reader in an upcoming interview marking
our tenth anniversary,
Future Plans
Wrth a successful application to the Dormant Accounts fund of TNL we plan to recruit an
Operations Director to drive the development of the community projecls, and focus on
opportunities to generate new income by developing these and other new areas of
activity.
Opportunities to become more self-sustaining are imperatlve, not only because tha
grants which we re￿iVed duriro Covid have now disappeared but there is also a fear
that with the Gontinued Cost-of-living crises and the cuts in statutory funding, our income
Is going to be detrimentally affected from that sector, We must increase our efforts with
the philanthropic base (both here and in the USA) and look to generate more from our
venue hire and fee-paying programmes.
In addition to thls wa also intend to look at areas of social economy style income
generatlon through areas of produGtion, film making, ticket sales and such lik8.
With the Macrory Halls now well established to our ownership, we can continue to
develop community programmes across the Duncaim Gardens interfa￿. These plans
include the expansion of the community development work in north Belfgst and will
allow us to operate activitles on an Interfa￿ between the (republican) New Lodge and
(loya115t) Tigers Bay, During 2021122 we developed a programme of activities in
Gollaboration with other organisations, and In partnership with our managlng partner
Building Bridges Club, an organisation recently establlshed to do outreach worf( with
young people in the area.
Financial Review
Th8 trust is reliant on the income from its donors whlch amounted to £1,340,787 during
the financial year.
In regards th8 Opportunity for the Duncairn Centre to generate income as 8 venue for
third party corporate hire, this year was a diffiGuIt one. The total we realised was just
over £16k but that was with a limiled number of bookings after covid, and we were
not up to tull capacity until Apnl-23.
Reserves
lthilsl it is the intention of the organisation to have a minimum of 6 months operational
costs set aside as a Reserve, it is generally ac￿pted that the ongoing cash flow
situation of the Trust will determine how much of a reserve is aGtually set aside.
As the Trust is the owner of the Duncairn Complex, it is recognised that the Gapital
asset of the physical Complex will be used to cover any reseNe that may be required in
an emergency, The present Value of the asset is more than £4M.
The Trustees and Senior Directors of the Trust are continually searching for sour￿8 of
funding to establish a cash reserve of 6 months operational costs.
At the end ofthis accounting year, we had a small reserve of £31,130.89 set aside.

Trustees, responslbilities in relation to the financial statements
The Trustees are required to prepare financial statements for èaGh financial year, which
grve a true and fair view of the affalrs of the trust and of its financial activities for that
period. In preparing those financial Statements, the Trustees ar8 required to..
Select suitable acc4Junling policies then apply them consistently.
Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
State whether the applicable accounting standards and statements of
recommended practice have been followed, subject lo any departures disclosed
and explained in the stalements.
Prepare the financial statements on the golng concern basis unless it is
inappropriate to presume that the trust will continue in operation.
The Trustees and management committee are responsible for keeping accountirvJ
records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the Trust, and
which enable Ihem to ensure that the financial statements comply with United Kingdom
Accounting Standards, The Charities (Accounts & Reports) Regulations (Northern
Ireland) 2015, and the provisions of the trust deed. The trustees are responsible for
8afeguardlng the assets of the trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for the
prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Signed by..
Truslee: Rev Prof Patton Taylor
Trustee: Heather Ca
Dated 31 MARCH 2024
Dated 31 MARCH 2024