Community Committed

To create an impact within it’s members, all community organisations should offer variety of activities, it could be from numeracy/language classes to dance groups to advocacy services within any particular locality based association. But it’s far beyond for a national umbrella organisation like UKKCA, it should have multiple activities at the national level and also at the unit level. Government mechanism and the well established volunteer sector in UK regularly promote community organisations for nation building and for citizen empowerment. UKKCA could always utilize these wide opportunities by effectively representing  its members and request funds from national funding agencies like Sports England, Arts England, Big Lottery and other donor charities. This could be for anything, own activities at the national level and also at the unit level, especially when there are high number of children and youth involved to  our various activities/programs.

Funding charities recently stated that they are not receiving sufficient quality and competitive funding programs or requests from community organisations within UK and to attract community associations they regularly promote their activities through workshops and seminars at a number of places around UK. Committed community leaders, interested to develop their community members and their organisation could easily find time to attend these sessions. There are multiple benefits to the individuals and the organisation attending these sessions, they will increase their personal and networking skills along with promoting their organisation at national and international level. Selfless and sincere leaders with an attitude to learn, promote, develop  and implement social change is needed for all associations.

Even though UKKCA is a national registered charity, it’s quiet different from other well established charities, as these charities operate by identifying the issue they are concerned about, then working out how best to tackle it. Community organisations like UKKCA are different, they know where they want to operate, but they do not always know which issue they should tackle. Community organisations need to add extra efforts for identifying the needs of its members and that’s the reason when these community organisations are registered as national charities, general objectives are developed in line with the current needs and for future needs.

UKKCA's all previous activity based objectives were short term focussed, but was incorporated to the more generalised objectives on the advise of Charity Commission. These generalised long term objectives would provide sufficient opportunities for the leadership to develop and implement any programs for all members needs, without any constitutional restrictions.

 The current objectives of UKKCA as a registered charity is as follows :

(1) The advancement of the Christian religion in accordance with the tenets of the (Knanaya) Catholic Church

(2) The advancement of education, in particular but not restricted to the area of family unity and development.

(3) The relief of those in social or economic need by the advancement of any other charitable purpose, with a view to, in particular but not restricted to, the fulfilment of social and welfare needs.

UKKCA is the first national level organisation within the Malayalee community in UK, and quiet recently many other cultural and spiritual associations are being developed which are now functioning in a better way. If UKKCA to keep the lead, then its time to develop more people oriented programs in addition to the traditional annual programs. It’s very important for us to keep our flocks together in this ever changing world, as without members no community or association could survive.