The BIG Dish Out – Cushendall

A Waste No Time (WNoT Consortium) project. Filmed at a Participatory Budgeting voting night Cushendall. 12 groups/inidviduals pitched their ideas and the community voted which of ideas got investments. Participatory Budgeting is about local people making decisions directly over how local public budgets are spent.

The WNoT partners involved in this project: Building Community Resource Centre; Beyond Skin; CAN; Charo Lanao-Madden; Corrymeela; Jez Hall (PB Network); Triangle Housing; Rural Community Network; Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council; Building Change Trust & Karin Eyben (project manager).

Film produced by Chris Heath @ ThreeFortyFive Films. Waste No Time project principal funder is the Building Change Trust.

Learn more about Participatory Budgeting at www.pbnetwork.org.uk

25 Years of RCN

Rural Community Network in existence for 25 years and celebrate with its members.

TBUC Uniting Erne East – United Champions

This element of the Uniting Communities programme ensures that a high quality and standardised training package is delivered to Young Leaders across all Uniting Communities areas.

The accredited training package has been specifically designed to enable Young Leaders to develop and progress to reach their full potential.  After graduating from a Uniting Communities programme, there are opportunities for young leaders to take their leadership training to the next level and take on a new role of ‘Ambassador’.  As an Ambassador, the Young Leader will act on behalf of Uniting Communities Programme to engage, encourage, and inspire other young people to make positive changes in their own lives and inspire others in their community.

Ambassadors will also include local individuals who are held in high regard by a community for a particular achievement or success or whose life stories are inspirational to others.

TBUC Young Ambassadors – Declaration of Human Rights for Sport – Rwanda

This element of the Uniting Communities programme ensures that a high quality and standardised training package is delivered to Young Leaders across all Uniting Communities areas.

The accredited training package has been specifically designed to enable Young Leaders to develop and progress to reach their full potential.  After graduating from a Uniting Communities programme, there are opportunities for young leaders to take their leadership training to the next level and take on a new role of ‘Ambassador’.  As an Ambassador, the Young Leader will act on behalf of Uniting Communities Programme to engage, encourage, and inspire other young people to make positive changes in their own lives and inspire others in their community.

Ambassadors will also include local individuals who are held in high regard by a community for a particular achievement or success or whose life stories are inspirational to others.

TBUC Uniting Opportunities – Street Soccer homelessness project

Uniting Opportunities is the small grants element of the Uniting Communities Programme. It aims to promote good relations and reconciliation through sport and creativity by addressing barriers to community participation that some young people face. It is targeted at the most vulnerable groups of young people in our society (aged 11-24), who would not normally avail of opportunities to participate.

TBUC Uniting Communities through Sports and Creativity

Uniting Communities is a cross community youth sport and creativity programme delivered by the Department for Communities (DfC).

Uniting Communities uses sport, physical and creativity to build good relations between young people from different community backgrounds.  It is delivered in both urban and rural settings to young people aged between 11-24 years and it focuses primarily on youth engagement and leadership training.

It seeks to deliver on the following outcomes;

  • Engage young people in sport, physical and creative activity that brings communities together and helps create the next generation of community leaders
  • Positive attitude towards those from different political, religious, ethnic, and marginalised backgrounds
  • Increased community capacity and capability

TBUC Young Ambassadors Journey – Girdwood North Belfast

This element of the Uniting Communities programme ensures that a high quality and standardised training package is delivered to Young Leaders across all Uniting Communities areas.

The accredited training package has been specifically designed to enable Young Leaders to develop and progress to reach their full potential.  After graduating from a Uniting Communities programme, there are opportunities for young leaders to take their leadership training to the next level and take on a new role of ‘Ambassador’.  As an Ambassador, the Young Leader will act on behalf of Uniting Communities Programme to engage, encourage, and inspire other young people to make positive changes in their own lives and inspire others in their community.

Ambassadors will also include local individuals who are held in high regard by a community for a particular achievement or success or whose life stories are inspirational to others.

TBUC Uniting Communities through Sports and Creativity – Ardoyne and Ballysillan project

Uniting Communities is a cross community youth sport and creativity programme delivered by the Department for Communities (DfC).

Uniting Communities uses sport, physical and creativity to build good relations between young people from different community backgrounds.  It is delivered in both urban and rural settings to young people aged between 11-24 years and it focuses primarily on youth engagement and leadership training.

It seeks to deliver on the following outcomes;

  • Engage young people in sport, physical and creative activity that brings communities together and helps create the next generation of community leaders
  • Positive attitude towards those from different political, religious, ethnic, and marginalised backgrounds
  • Increased community capacity and capability

TBUC Young Ambassadors Launch with Dame Kelly Holmes Trust and PeacePlayersNI

This element of the Uniting Communities programme ensures that a high quality and standardised training package is delivered to Young Leaders across all Uniting Communities areas.

The accredited training package has been specifically designed to enable Young Leaders to develop and progress to reach their full potential.  After graduating from a Uniting Communities programme, there are opportunities for young leaders to take their leadership training to the next level and take on a new role of ‘Ambassador’.  As an Ambassador, the Young Leader will act on behalf of Uniting Communities Programme to engage, encourage, and inspire other young people to make positive changes in their own lives and inspire others in their community.

Ambassadors will also include local individuals who are held in high regard by a community for a particular achievement or success or whose life stories are inspirational to others.

TBUC Young Leaders and Ambassadors – Colin and East Belfast project

This element of the Uniting Communities programme ensures that a high quality and standardised training package is delivered to Young Leaders across all Uniting Communities areas.

The accredited training package has been specifically designed to enable Young Leaders to develop and progress to reach their full potential.  After graduating from a Uniting Communities programme, there are opportunities for young leaders to take their leadership training to the next level and take on a new role of ‘Ambassador’.  As an Ambassador, the Young Leader will act on behalf of Uniting Communities Programme to engage, encourage, and inspire other young people to make positive changes in their own lives and inspire others in their community.

Ambassadors will also include local individuals who are held in high regard by a community for a particular achievement or success or whose life stories are inspirational to others.