# **Compassion Group Network** 

# **Registered Charity Number: NIC105168** 

# **Trustees Annual Report** 

**For the Year Ended 31[st] March 2025** 



## **- Trustee Annual Report:** 

Compassion Group Network, Compassion House, 14-16 Bryan Street, Ballymena, County Antrim, BT43 6DN 

## **The Following Individuals Served as Trustees in the Year:** 

Christine Paula Louise Wright Mr Ian Brown 

**A review of the Charity’s Financial Position at the end of the Year:** 

In the Financial Year Ending 31[st] March 2025.  The Charity had Income of £46651.00 and Expenditure of £42126.00 

## **Compassion Group Network charity objectives are specifically restricted to the following:** 

(1) The promotion of religious harmony for the benefit of the public by: a. Educating the public in different religious beliefs including an awareness of their distinctive features and their common ground to promote good relations between persons of different faiths; and b. Promoting knowledge and mutual understanding and respect of the beliefs and practices of different religious faiths. 

(2) To advance the Christian faith for the benefit of the public mainly, but not exclusively, by means of broadcasting Christian messages of an evangelistic and teaching nature. 

(3) For the public benefit to promote the education (including social and physical training as well as the teaching and learning of skills and knowledge) of people of all ages in Pakistan and other countries in such ways as the directors think fit. 

(4) The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship anywhere in the world by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient. 

the provision of funds and/or providing such persons with goods or services which they could not otherwise afford through lack of means. 

(6) The relief of sickness and the preservation of health among people residing permanently or temporarily in Pakistan and other countries. 

(7) To promote human rights (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations) throughout the world by all or any of the following means: a. Monitoring abuses of human rights; b. Obtaining redress for the victims of human rights abuse; c. Relieving need among the victims of human rights abuse; d. Research into human rights issues; e. Providing technical advice to government and others on human rights matters; f. Contributing to the sound administration of human rights law; g. Commenting on proposed human rights legislation; h. Raising awareness of human rights issues; i. Promoting public 

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support for human rights; j. Promoting respect for human rights among individuals and corporations; k. International advocacy of human rights; l. Eliminating infringements of human rights. In furtherance of that object but not otherwise, the directors shall have power to engage in political activity provided that the directors are satisfied that the proposed activities will further the purposes of the charity to an extent justified by the resources committed and the activity is not the dominant means by which the charity carried out its objects. 

(8) The promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit by: a. Advancing education and raising awareness in equality and diversity; and b. Promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds. 

(9) The promotion of racial harmony for the public benefit by: a. Promoting knowledge and mutual understanding between different racial groups; b. Advancing education and raising awareness about different racial groups to promote good relations between persons of different racial groups; and c. Working towards the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of race. 

## **Who The Charity Helps** 

- Adult training 

- Asylum seekers/refugees 

- Ethnic minorities 

- Ex-offenders and prisoners 

- General public 

- Homelessness 

- Interface communities 

- Men 

- Mental health 

- Older people 

- Overseas/developing countries 

- Parents 

- Physical disabilities 

- Voluntary and community sector 

- Volunteers 

- Women 

## **How The Charity Works** 

- Advice/advocacy/information 

- Community development 

- Community enterprise 

- Counselling/support 

- Criminal justice 

- Cross-border/cross-community 

- Disability 

- Economic development 

- Education/training 

- Gender 

- General charitable purposes 

- Human rights/equality 

- Relief of poverty 

- Research/evaluation 

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- Rural development 

- Urban development 

- Volunteer development 

- Welfare/benevolent 

## **What Compassion Group Network continues to do** 

Compassion Group Network has been established to eliminate poverty, endorse human rights, to eliminate extremism and to encourage interface dialogue on the basis of humanity. It will also encourage peace building in Northern Ireland to project into Pakistan and other regions. 

Approved by the trustees on 09th May 2026 and signed on their behalf by Chairperson: 

Signed **Ian Brown (Chairperson)** 

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