ST BERNADEfTE'S THIRD WORLD GROUP
CHARITY REGISTRATION NO: NIC104667
TRUSTEES REPORT 2024- 2025

St Bernadette's Third World Group
clo Mary McKnight, Apartment 14, Bell Towers South, Ravenhill Road,
Belfast BT6 OGR
Charity Number: NIC104667
Trustees Report for the period - 1st April 2024- 31 St March 2025
Section 1: Organisation Overview and Purpose
St Bernadette's Third World Group is a charity registered with the Charities
Commission in Northem Ireland. St Bernadette's Third World Group adopted the
written Constitution (Trust Deed) on 11th January 2016 (approved by the Charty
Commission for Northern Ireland) and was formally registered on 2nd February 2016.
The charity is a grant making trust which will apply its income by making grants to
charities operating in Lima, Peru.
In setting our objectives and planning our activity for the year the trustees have given
careful consideration to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland's guidance on
public benefit to ensure that the activities have helped to achieve the Charity's
purposes and provide a benefit to our beneficiaries namely the children and young
people living in impoverished areas in Lima, Peru.
1.1 St Bernadette's Third World Group Trustees
Trustees are appointed on an annual basis at the Annual General Meeting. The
current trustees were appointed on 11 th January 2016. Seamus Dawson stood down
at the AGM in September 2019 and Peter McGettrick was appointed.
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Treasurer
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Assistant Treasurer
Mrs Marie Mclvor
Trustee
Mrs Eileen Gra
Trustee
Mr Peter McGettrick
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1.2 St Bernadette's Third World Group Purpose
The Charity is established to advan￿ education, to prevent or relieve povety and to
relieve the needs of children and young people living in impoverished areas (the
beneficiaries) in Lima, Peru (the area of benefit) and to provide recreation facilities
with the object of improving the conditions of life for the beneficiaries by making
grants and providing financial assistance to charities which are established for
similar purposes operating in the area of benefit. To further such other purposes that
are charitable under the law of Northern Ireland as the trustees in their absolute
discretion from time to time determine.

Purpose 1." Advancement of Education
The benefit which flows from the advancement of education is that children who
have fallen behind, are out of the state education system are given the opportunity to
learn and gain an education. We have supported a project which specialises in
children with learning difficulties and provides a psychologist assisted study
programme to help the children overcome their emotional and learning difficulties.
We aim to continue to provide the financial support to this setting and possibly others
in the area.
Purpose 2.. Preventing and relieving poverty
All our purposes are intertwined with preventing or relieving poverty of the
beneficiaries. The benefit which flows from this is that by providing food at all of the
activities that the children attend, the children are nourished. By helping them come
to temis with their emotional issues, the children and young people are being given a
helping hand through the provision of various support. This should all help to give
them a better start in life and hopefully help them find employment when they are
older. We will continue to provide financial 8UPPOrt to charities in Lima that work to
prevent or relieve povety.
Purpose 3." Pmvision of a safe Residentlal Home
The benefil which flows from relieving the needs of children and young people is that
those who have been abused or mistreated receive care and attention in a safe
environment which is necessary to help them overcome their experiences. We have
provided financial support to a residential home for troubled and abused children
which provides specialist psychological help to the young people. We aim to
continue to provide financial support to this setting and possibly others like it in the
area.
Purpose 4.. Pn)vision of recreational facilities
The benefit which flows from providing financial assistan￿ to charities which provide
recreation facilities is that the conditions of life for the beneficiaries will be improved.
Children and young people will be able to participate in various recreational activities
which helps them to develop new skills and benefit from social interaction with their
peers in a safe and stimulating environment. We have funded a Children's centre in
Lima which hosts 600 children on a daily basis where the children can participate in
activities such as dan￿, art, study and play areas. We would anticipate continuing
to provide financial assistan￿ to this centre and any other similar project in the area.
Purpose 5.. Furthersuch other charitable purposes
Our fifth purpose is to further such other purposes that are charitable under the law
of Northern Ireland as the trustees in their absolute discretion from time to time
determine. While the main benefit will primarily focus on the first four charitable
purposes, however from time-to-time trustees may make grants and financial
contributions to any charrtable need they feel worthy of financial assistan￿. The

trustees have chosen this purpose so that Ihey will not be restricted in who or what
they help as different situations present themselves. They will judge each case on
merit and need to recognise that it must be one of the twelve charitable purposes as
outlined in the Charities Act.
Section 2: St Bernadette's Third World Group Activltles
In the year 1 sl April 2024 to 31 $1 March 2025 the charity raised funds in the local
community, in particular St Bernadette's Parish, Belfast, primarily renewal of child
sponsorships and donations. We also received donations from schools, benefactors
and other charitable organisations. Sponsorship payments were collected as normal
at St Bernadette's Church, Rosetta Road, Belfast.
All Sponsors re￿iVed a renewal letter accompanied by a personal letter from Father
Tony Coney, highlighting the ex￿lIent work being carried out within The Children's
Centres. Lima. He has also mentioned that further information can be obtained on
their website using the following link:
The Sponsors responded generously. Those who could not attend Church sent
payment by cheque directly to the Treasurer which were immediately lodged into the
Charity account.
Section 3: Review of Charity's Financial Position
In the period 1 St April 2024 to 31 sl March 2025 St Bernadette's Third World Group
raised £ 32,164.61
Opening Balan￿.. £178,063.07
Total Income for period April 2024 to March 2025.. £32,164.61 which includes
Gift Aid.. £4,241,47
Minus Expenditure - Sponsorship Mailshot Postage August 2024.. _ £350
Minus Expenditure - 1 Grant sent to Father Coney as follows: . £31.689
The closing balan￿ was £ 178,188.68
The trustees agreed that this balan￿ is held in the account for ongoing grant
applications in the future, which the trustees deem worthy of support.
15th February 2025 Grant Application
This Grant will be used for a project which will Improve the life opportunities of poor
and vulnerable children, including victims of sexual psychological and physical
abuse, and marginalised children on the verge of school expulsion. In turn this will
improve the life opportunities of generation$ to come. The Project will be achieved
through our three independent Centres by promoting and protecting the human
rights of children, and breaking the vicious cycles of violence. abuse and the lack of
educational opportunities leading to poverty, while also offering the children of the

local communities a safe environment where they can play, study, discover and
develop their talents, and generally have the Spa￿ to enjoy their childhood.
More specifically in place is-
A. A Safeguarding programme and Outreach into the community and educational
centres. Preventing Sexual Abuse by..
(1) Improving child protection systems in public schools by training teachers and
parents on child protection systems, policies and procedures, promoting the human
rights of children, and setting up child protection teams (made up of teachers and
parents) responsible for implementing the child safeguarding policy.
(2) Improving children's knowledge of their rights, self-protection skills, and ability to
identify situations that would put them at risk of sexual abuse by providing child-
friendly capacity devebpment and workshops that teach children to recognise and
report abuse, suspicious behaviour and risk situations.
The Residential Home for sexually abused children. Identify & Intervene in Cases
of Abuse by.,
(1) Identifying and reporting cases of sexual andlor serious or repeated physical
abuse and providing legal accompaniment to victims.
(2) Identifying and conducting family inteNentions in cases of psychological and less
serious physical violence against children in the home (conduct home visits, engage
parents, enforce new rules under threat of the law, provide psychological therapy to
parents and train them on better ways of communicating with their child).
(3) Rehabilitating child victims of abuse with a specialised, intensive residential
programme for child victims of sexual abuse who have already been through the
court system, and in-house psychological treatment in the Remedial School and
Children's Centre for children identified as victims of psychological andlor physical
abuse.
(4) Preventing Unne￿SSary institutionalization of child victims of sexual abuse by
engaging, in the Rehabilitation Centre's residential programme, the wider family of
child victims of such abuse, who have b￿n through the court system and are
destined for state orphanages. Such engagement includes identifying a family
member capable and willing to care for the child, building their capacity through
training and psychological sessions over the entire 1-2-year programme, conducting
home visits by a social worker, and follow-up with the child following reintegration
into the home.
C. The Remedial School for children with learning difficulties. Improve Equity in
Educational A￿sS and Opportunity by:
(1) Improving underperforming children's comprehension in literacy and mathematics
in the Remedial School's intensive 1-2-year reintegration programme (all students
admitted to the programme have scores significantly below what they should be for

their grade in these core subjects, exhibit behavioural problems and are on the verge
of school expulsion).
(2) Improving phoneme articulation of children with speech and language problems
through speech and language therapy.
(3) Addressing underlying emotional problems that children express as negative
behaviour.
D. The Children's Day centre. Improve aC￿sS to, and realisation of, human rights for
marginalized children and parents suffering human right violations which affect the
wellbeing of their children through:
(1) Providing services of support, both legal and social, in our Defence Desk.
(2) Providing children with the safe SPa￿S they need in order to play as children.
(3) Providing workshops, gymnasiums, libraries and activities for children to learn
olher skills which will increase their opportunities to develop, all of which will help
them lead a more balanced life with good mental health.
The Grant will be spent on the upkeep of the children in the Residential Home.
As they are entirely under the care and responsibility of St Bernadette's, Residential
Home Project, Lima, (25 children) currently, provision is made for all their needs,
including, alimentary, educational and clothing etc
DECLARATION
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees, report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity trustees:
Signature
Full Name
Position
Date
Patricia MCFI
Chair
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Signature
Full Name
Position
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Treasurer