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Rathcoole Friends of the Somme Society

Country
Northern Ireland
Charity number
103515
Status
Removed
Registered
Sept. 8, 2015

Address

Address
Rathcoole Friends Of The Somme
C/O 47 Mournebeg Drive
Newtownabbey
County Antrim
BT37 9LT
BT37 9LT

Contact

Phone
07825772009

Activities

The society is established to advance education, promote and advance community development, relieve poverty, hardship, sickness and the aged and to promote the benefit and wellbeing of the community resident in the Rathcoole area and its environs of Newtownabbey, Co Antrim (hereinafter called the area of benefit) without distinction of age, gender, disabilty, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, political or religious opinion by assocating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organistations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation or other leisure-time occupation with the object of fostering a community spirit and improving the conditions of life for said inhabitants and in particular: (a) to foster good citizenship and advance the education and understanding of the public inrelation to the events and historical implications of the First World War, in particular but not exclusively by the promotion of knowledge on the subject of the 36th Ulster Division with special reference to the Division's participation in the Somme campaogn, in such ways as the committee think fit; (b) to support community development and wellbeing activities and to work with partners to support community cohesion, the promotion of adequate housing conditions and the development of a sustainable community; (c) to promote community safety through the support and development of appropriate programmes and projects which aim to address crime and anti-social behaviour; (d) to promote or assist in promoting community capacity building programmes and projects for the benefit of the inhabitants within the area of benefit who have need of such assistance as a result of their youth, age, disability or infirmity, or social and economic circumstances, in an effort to increase the abilities, skills, and self-confidence of such inhabitants in the area of benefit; (e) to relieve poverty by the promotion, facilitation and organisation of adequate, accessible and quality programmes of vocational and educational training, information and support in an effort to acquire skills and retraining to assist the beneficiaries in obtaining employment; (f) to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the committee, may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity.

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

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Dec. 31, 2018 £20,530 £17,337