## Application for registration as a charity
## **The Confederation of Community Groups**
## **Application Number: 2002074**
## **Submission Date: 07 November 2014**
If we decide to register your organisation some of the information you have given in this form will be made publicly available in accordance with Section 16(7) of Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (as amended). For your information, we have marked those fields with the symbol - **P** .
This form shows the information you have entered through the Commission's online application for registration.
## **Your contact for this application**
Your current contact is an: individual
Title: Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Telephone: Mobile: Email: Your contact details are:
MR Raymond Jackson 028 30261022 07706267382 rjackson@ccgnewrycommunity.org RAYMOND JACKSON Confederation of Community Groups Ballybot House 28 Corn Market NEWRY County Down BT35 8BG United Kingdom
## **Special Circumstances**
-- No Details Supplied --
## **Eligibility**
Organisation is governed by the law of Northern Ireland, or
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Governed by the law of another jurisdiction but operates in Northern Ireland
Yes
## **Part 1 - Your Organisation**
## **Organisation names**
Main Name - **P**
Other Name or Acronym - **P**
HMRC charitable tax reference number
The Confederation of Community Groups CCG
XR40558
## **The organisation's public address**
The organisation's public address is - **P**
Confederation of Community Groups Ballybot House 28 Corn Market NEWRY County Down BT35 8BG
Your organisation works from this address.
## **Internet**
Your current public email address - **P**
Your email address for use by the Commission
Your organisation's current website - **P**
info@ccgnewrycommunity.org rjackson@ccgnewrycommunity.org www.ccgnewrycommunity.org
## **Finance and Fundraising**
Your organisation has existed for more than 1 year and has published accounts
Gross Income £ 626,554 Financial Year End Date - **P** 31 March 2015
How has your organisation raised its funds?
Applications for funding - Central Government, Local Government, Statutory bodies, and others Self Generated Funding - Ballybot House, Resource centre
How will your organisation raise funds in the future?
Applications for funding - Central Government, Local Government, Statutory bodies, and others Self Generated Funding - Ballybot House, Resource centre
You intend to use professional fundraising No consultants.
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## **Charity's Main Bank or Building Society**
Bank Name: Account Name: Sort Code: Account Number:
BOI UK PLC NEWRY (NI)
Confederation of Community Groups Newry & District No. 1 Account
**-**-**
*******
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## **Part 2 - What You Do**
## **Governing Document and Purposes**
|**Part 2 - What You Do**
**Governing Document and Purposes**||
|---|---|
|Type of governing document|Memorandum|
|Date governing document was adopted:|30 October 2014|
|Company Registration Number|22294|
|You are not using an approved governing document.||
## **Purposes**
To promote, further or support any purpose for the benefit of the community in Newry and its environs and the wider region in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (the “area of benefit”) which are, or hereafter may be deemed under the law of Northern Ireland to be charitable, and in particular: (a) To develop programmes and services to advance community development, citizenship and education, promote volunteering, relieve poverty and distress, youth and the aged, and for the promotion of good health, and the promotion of racial harmony and diversity. (b) To promote and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of charities and voluntary and community groups by the provision and management for such organisations of office accommodation, daycare facilities, conference, training, information, advice, payroll and other facilities, services or support.
## **Public Benefit**
Your public benefits are: - **P**
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For the following purposes: No purpose leads to harm. Benefits are demonstrated by feedback received from internal evaluation, statistics and independent evaluation from statutory bodies, Community Associations, funding agents and others. The charity’s beneficiaries are people living in Newry and its environs and the wider region in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. There is no private benefit flowing from purpose 1 and 4. A private benefit flowing from purpose 2 and 3 is that gained by a Trustee who avails of a service provided in their area/to their organisation. The Trustee might receive training (eg good governance, finance, first aid etc) and the individual gains skills and experience which are transferrable to other settings. This benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries Purpose 1: The advancement of Citizenship, Community Development - Developing and inspiring civic values and encouraging voluntary and community activity. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose are an increase in the number of volunteers and volunteering opportunities, the empowerment of individuals to make a positive contribution to local community life, a more inclusive society, a reduction in the fear of crime and an enhanced quality of life. The benefits are demonstrated by the numbers of volunteers and volunteering opportunities, the number/range of projects provided, Social Return on Investment(SROI) analysis and physical improvements in local areas. Purpose 2: The advancement of Citizenship, Community Development - practices for the Community & Voluntary sector The direct benefits which flow from this purpose is an increase in the effectiveness of local charities, community groups and associations and their effective use of charitable resources, an increase in community infrastructure and facilities, an increase in partnership work and increased engagement with statutory bodies. The benefits are demonstrated by the number of new com/vol organisations, mergers or collaborations established, the increase in the capacity of existing com/vol groups, the number of additional programmes developed, increased governance, the number of funding applications made and an increase in the numbers engaged from “hard to reach groups.” Purpose 3: The advancement of Education The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include sustaining and increasing individual and collective knowledge and the development of individual capabilities, competences, skills and understanding through community education and life-long learning. The benefits are demonstrated by the number and range of community education courses provided, the number of individuals attending courses and the number of certificates successfully achieved. This is demonstrated by feedback/statistics received from internal evaluation (client survey/interviews) and independent evaluation from statutory bodies, Community Associations, funding agents and others. Purpose 4: The relief of those in need - by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, poverty or other disadvantage. The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include awareness raising of existing and emerging needs within communities, the enabling of people to overcome barriers to services and the identification of new services to meet gaps in provision. Further benefits are an improvement in the engagement processes with statutory
organisations to help address concerns and to deliver accessible services, the reduction of deprivation and an increase in mental and physical health and well-being. The benefits are demonstrated by the number of individuals engaged from the targeted groups listed above, the range of services provided, the number of referrals from and to statutory services, the number of services accessed, and the new services provided.
This is what your organisation does: - **P**
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We are an umbrella community development organisation who support all sections of the community, particularly the disadvantaged, socially excluded, disengaged and those experiencing the highest levels of poverty. Our work contributes to the wellbeing of all sections of the community, we facilitate meaningful engagement and support creative joint problem-solving between citizens, agencies and decision-makers from a “bottom-up” perspective. Our work is structured within 4 areas of work namely; 1. Community Development : Capacity Building & Support services provided to local community & voluntary groups Develop meaningful engagement and interaction between local communities, agencies and statutory sector. Community Education, Training and Development programmes. Inter-cultural and Inter-community work. Youth intervention and work with ethnic minorities including Irish Travellers. Older peoples Programme –incorporationg our Good Morning Telephone Service, Good Neighhbour Service, Home Secured Project, Carers Telephone Support. 2. Volunteering Recruitment, Access checks, Guidance, Training & Support provided: CCG Projects (approx 110 volunteers) Millenium Volunteers (via SHSCT School Volunteer Project) Community & Voluntary groups (Newry & Mourne) 3. Advice and information Good Governance, Financial Management, Employment and Health & Safety Legislation, Dissemination of information, Charitable registration, Databases, Ezine, Promotion of Healthy Life-styles (incorporating REACH programme), Sign-posting, Independent living, Social isolation and fear of crime, Health & well being. 4. Ballybot House & An Stóras Centrally located social enterprise hosting a multi-purpose Resource Centre as well as providing accommodation for CCG and for some 20 voluntary and community organisations. Providing: Office & Retail accommodation, Day-care facilities, back office support, Conference, Venue Hire and Training facilities.
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## **Classification**
**WHAT** your charity sets out to do: - **P**
|3|101 The prevention or relief of poverty|
|---|---|
|4|102 The advancement of education|
||103 The advancement of religion|
||104 The advancement of health or the saving of lives|
|1|105 The advancement of citizenship or community development|
||106 The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science|
||107 The advancement of amateur sport|
|5|108 The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the
promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity|
||109 The advancement of environmental protection or improvement|
|2|110 The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability,
financial hardship or other disadvantage|
||111 The advancement of animal welfare|
||112 Other charitable purposes|
## **RELIGIOUS DESIGNATION**
Your organisation is applying for religious No designation: - **P**
Does your organisation consider itself to be No a component element of an already registered designated religious charity? - **P**
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**HOW** your charity does this - **P**
||201 Accommodation/housing|
|---|---|
|4|202 Advice/advocacy/information|
||203 Animal welfare|
||204 Arts|
|1|205 Community development|
|9|206 Community enterprise|
||207 Community transport|
||208 Counselling/support|
||209 Criminal justice|
|8|210 Cross-border/cross-community|
||211 Cultural|
||212 Disability|
||213 Economic development|
|3|214 Education/training|
||215 Environment/sustainable development/conservation|
||216 Gender|
||217 General charitable purposes|
||218 Grant making|
||219 Heritage/historical|
|6|220 Human rights/equality|
|7|221 Medical/health/sickness|
||222 Overseas aid/famine relief|
||223 Playgroup/after schools|
|5|224 Relief of poverty|
||225 Religious activities|
||226 Research/evaluation|
||227 Rural development|
||228 Search and rescue|
||229 Sport/recreation|
||230 Urban development|
|2|231 Volunteer development|
||232 Welfare/benevolent|
||233 Youth development|
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**WHO** your charity helps - **P**
||301 Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)|
|---|---|
|5|302 Adult training|
||303 Asylum seekers/refugees|
|9|304 Carers|
||305 Children (5-13 year olds)|
|10|306 Community safety/crime prevention|
|8|307 Ethnic minorities|
||308 Ex-offenders and prisoners|
||309 General public|
||310 HIV/Aids|
||311 Homelessness|
||312 Interface communities|
||313 Language community|
||314 Learning disabilities|
|11|315 Men|
||316 Mental health|
|4|317 Older people|
||318 Overseas/developing countries|
||319 Parents|
||320 Physical disabilities|
||321 Preschool (0-5 year olds)|
||322 Sensory disabilities|
||323 Sexual orientation|
|3|324 Specific areas of deprivation|
||325 Tenants|
|7|326 Travellers|
|6|327 Unemployed/low income|
||328 Victim support|
|1|329 Voluntary and community sector|
|2|330 Volunteers|
|12|331 Women|
|13|332 Youth (14-25 year olds)|
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## **Area of Operation**
Your organisation works Throughout the island of Ireland - **P**
## **Operating in Scotland, England and Wales or the Republic of Ireland**
Is your organisation registered or will it be registering with the No Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) or the Charity Commission for England and Wales (CCEW)?
## **Have you ever had an application rejected**
By OSCR? No By CCEW? No
Reference numbers associated with an application approved by HM Revenue & Customs (or in the case of Republic of Ireland-the Revenue Commissioners) for tax relief as a charity, that have been provided:
XR40558
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## **Part 3 - Who is involved**
## **Contact for your Organisation**
Your current contact is an: individual Title: Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Date of Birth: Telephone - **P** : Email - **P** : Mobile - **P** : Your contact details as shown on the public register are - **P** :
MR Raymond Jackson
21 January 1968 028 30261022
RAYMOND JACKSON 2 Bleary Bungalows NEWRY County Down BT35 8PT United Kingdom
## **Corporate Trustees**
We do not hold any information about corporate trustees of your charity.
## **Individual Trustees**
Printed below is the list of individuals who are trustees of your organisation.
Please note, the addresses given should be the trustee's home address rather than a work or the organisation address. Please ensure that we have a complete set of details for each trustee.
We only publish trustee names on the register. Other personal details are not made publicly available.
The Commission may email trustees who have given us a personal email address with important updates about trusteeship from time to time. Your organisation has told us that their trustees **do not wish to receive these updates.**
Title: MR Personal Names: Mark Family Name: Crossey Honours and Qualifications: Display Name: - **P** MARK CROSSEY Date of Birth: 06 December 1967 Address: 22 Altnaveigh Park NEWRY County Down Postcode: BT35 8XB Telephone: 07988675510 Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** NO
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Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
Title: Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Display Name: - **P** Date of Birth: Address:
Postcode: Telephone: Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
Title:
Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Display Name: - **P** Date of Birth: Address:
Postcode: Telephone: Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
Title: Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Display Name: - **P** Date of Birth: Address:
Postcode: Telephone: Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
Title:
NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
MR David Cunningham
DAVID CUNNINGHAM 21 October 1958 5 Loughview Park NEWRY County Down BT34 2EH 0035342 9327663
YES NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
MR Phillip Gerard Fay
GERRY FAY 13 July 1928 44 Warrenpoint Road Rostrevor NEWRY County Down BT34 3EB 028417 38700
NO NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
MS Annette Hughes
ANNETTE HUGHES 04 December 1956 30 Forest Park Killeavy NEWRY County Down BT35 8ST 02830 849998 hsarah04@aol.com NO NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
MS
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Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Display Name: - **P** Date of Birth: Address:
Postcode: Telephone: Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
Title:
Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Display Name: - **P** Name at Birth: Date of Birth: Address:
Postcode: Telephone: Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
Title:
Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Display Name: - **P** Name at Birth: Date of Birth: Address:
Postcode: Telephone: Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
Title: Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications:
Kathleen Lowry
KATHLEEN LOWRY 13 February 1968 82 Mourne View Park NEWRY County Down BT35 6BZ 028302 61022 kathleenlowry66@hotmail.com NO NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
MRS Mary McCamley
MARY MCCAMLEY Ms Mary Magill 09 April 1935 3 Carrive Crescent Cloughoge NEWRY County Down BT35 8NZ 028302 60759
NO NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
MRS Rosemarie McDonnell
ROSEMARIE MCDONNELL Ms Rosemarie Downey 13 October 1958 3 Seafields Court Warrenpoint NEWRY County Down BT34 3XB 02830 269224 newryCAB@citizensadvice.co.uk NO NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
MR
Padraig Damian McKevitt
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Display Name: - **P** Date of Birth: Address:
Postcode: Telephone: Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
DAMIAN MCKEVITT 07 March 1963 29 Drumalane Park NEWRY County Down BT358AS 07827667562 damian.mck@gmail.com NO NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
Title: Personal Names: Family Name: Honours and Qualifications: Display Name: - **P** Date of Birth: Address:
Postcode: Telephone: Email: Chair of the charity: - **P** Trustee of another charity: Request for Anonymity:
MR Ewan Morgan EWAN MORGAN 03 January 1959 20 Ballinlare Court NEWRY County Down BT35 8BF 07709670793 crjina@yahoo.com NO NO This trustee has not requested anonymity
## **Vulnerable People**
## **Working with Children**
Your organisation works with children It has a child protection policy. You have declared that you have made the necessary checks required to safeguard your beneficiaries
## **Working with Vulnerable People**
Your organisation works with vulnerable people It has a vulnerable people policy.
You have declared that you have made the necessary checks required to safeguard your beneficiaries
## **Private Benefit**
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You have said that some people or other organisations connected with your organisation receive private benefit.
You have given the following explanation of that private benefit:
## Who gains and how
A private benefit may be gained by a Trustee who is also a member of a com/vol group to whom we provide services. The Trustee might receive training in good governance, finance etc and the individual gains skills and experience which are transferrable to other settings.
How will the award of the benefit contribute to the organisation achieving its purpose(s)? This benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to our beneficiaries in local areas.
How will the other trustees manage the conflict of interest that arises from the private benefit? All Trustees must complete a declaration of Interest Form annually and must also declare any interest at all Board meetings.
## **Data Protection**
Any information you give to us will be held securely and in accordance with the rules on data protection. Your personal details will be treated as private and confidential and safeguarded, and will not be disclosed to anyone not connected to the Commission unless you have consented to its release, or in certain circumstances where:
- b we are **legally** obliged to do so;
- b it is **necessary** for the proper discharge of our statutory functions;
- b it is **necessary** to disclose this information in compliance with our function as regulator of charities where it is in the public interest to do so.
We will ensure that any disclosure made for this purpose is proportionate, considers your right to privacy and is dealt with fairly and lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Principles of the Data Protection Act.
The Data Protection Act 1998 regulates the use of 'personal data', which is essentially any information, whether kept in computer or paper files, about identifiable individuals. As a 'data controller' under the Act, the Commission must comply with its requirements.
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