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Peace Advocate Project Ltd

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC049839
Status
Active
Registered
Jan. 8, 2020
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
Ard Na Ghyll
Old Minnigaff
Newton Stewart
DG8 6SJ

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation'

The Peace Advocate Programme seeks to recognise and acknowledge the innate expertise of young  people?, enable them to resolve conflict and embrace success?. This empowers them to become leaders of the 21st  century in their schools and communities. The charity encourages a conflict resolution philosophy in the participants enabling young people and adults to become Peace Advocates. Through interactive learning opportunities schools and community groups work towards achieving the International Blue Peace Schools accredited Flag Award. In order to achieve the Blue Flag status the Peace Advocates engage in activities to learn the 3 skills of Peace and Conflict resolution, followed by planning and delivering projects that benefit their communities. Finally, facilitate the learning programme for a new cohort of Peace Advocates. This advances their citizenship by liaising and building local and global networks to promote a culture of peace.

Objectives: 4 The Objects for which the company is established are: 1. The advancement of conflict resolution by encouraging a conflict resolution philosophy in young people in countries across the world and enabling young people and adults to become 'Peace Advocates'. 2. The advancement of education by training and accrediting facilitators to create and organize 'Peace and Conflict Resolution' groups in schools and communities and promoting equal status for life skills (such as conflict resolution skills) in the school curriculum. 3. The advancement of citizenship by liaising and building local and global networks to promote a culture of peace and enabling ?Peace and Conflict Resolution? groups to identify problems in their community that can be tackled using conflict resolution skills. 4. The advancement of health by promoting the knowledge and understanding of the impact of mental health on behaviour and offering skills to allow young people to take control of their mental health problems and empower them to improve their own health and that of others.

Areas of operation

Main operating location
Dumfries And Galloway
Geographical spread
UK and overseas

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
March 31, 2025 £2,392 £2,286
March 31, 2024 £1,649 £258
March 31, 2023 £4,667 £1,200
March 31, 2022 £3,644 £1,973
March 31, 2021 £2,182 £1,357