CCNI Northern Ireland charity profile

Factory Community Forum

Received: on timeCharity number 104526
Registered25 April 2016
Latest income£205,672
Financial year end31 March 2025

01 Registration

Identity and public record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
Official name
Factory Community Forum
CCNI number
104526
Reporting status
Received: on time
Governing document
Constitution
Public address
1 Lower Waterloo Road, Larne, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland, BT40 1NP

02 Charity activity

Purposes and classifications

CCNI

Charitable purposes

The Forum is established to advance education, promote and advance community development, promote social inclusion, relieve poverty, hardship, sickness and the aged and to promote the benefit and wellbeing of the communities resident in the Ferris Park and Greenland Crescent areas of Larne, Co. Antrim and their environs and surrounding areas (hereinafter called the "area of benefit") without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, political or religous opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for the recreation or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of fostering a community spirit and improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants and in particular: (a) to establish or secure the establishment of a community centre (hereinafter called "the centre") and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the Forum and its constituent bodies in the futherance of the above objects; (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 pormote social inclusion and integration for the public benefit by working with people who are socially excluded or at risk from becoming socially excluded on the grounds of their employment, financial hardship, poverty or social and or economic position, in order to relieve the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society; (g) to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the committee, may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity. For the purposes of this clause 'socially excluded' means people who are excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; race; gender; poor educational or skills attainment; substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; disability; sexuality; ethnic origin; or who are within, or have experienced, the public care or penal system.

What the charity does

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

Who the charity helps

Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse),Adult training,Children (5-13 year olds),Community safety/crime prevention,General public,Mental health,Older people,Parents,Specific areas of deprivation,Unemployed/low income,Voluntary and community sector,Volunteers,Women,Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

Arts,Community development,Community enterprise,Cultural,Education/training,Heritage/historical,Relief of poverty,Urban development,Volunteer development,Youth development

03 Latest finances

Income, spending and resources

Period 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
Total income
£205,672
Previous total income
£0
Donations and legacies
£0
Charitable activities income
£205,672
Trading income
£0
Investment income
£0
Other income
£0
Total income and endowments
£205,672
Total spending
£245,958
Raising funds expenditure
£0
Charitable activities expenditure
£245,958
Governance expenditure
£0
Other expenditure
£0
Total expenditure
£245,958
Total fixed assets
£0
Net assets and liabilities
£0
Employees / volunteers
3 / 16
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These are reported values from the CCNI register export. Zero and missing values are reproduced as supplied and should be checked against the charity’s filed accounts before a material decision.

04 Provenance

Source and matching