Building a Better Future for Everyone
Looking Back to Look Forward

This year we plan to work with
6,845 people, supporting them to build
a better future.
One of the ways we do this is through our Belfast and the World course, a 26 hour programme exploring the events which led up to the partition of the island of Ireland and the birth of Northern Ireland 100 years ago. Gathering more than 170 people from a truly cross–community cohort across Belfast, the course provides opportunities for people to engage in often difficult conversations about how borders impact a sense of identity and belonging.

This year we plan to work with 6,845 people, supporting them to build a better future.
One of the ways we do this is through our Belfast and the World course, a 26 hour programme exploring the events which led up to the partition of the island of Ireland and the birth of Northern Ireland 100 years ago. Gathering more than 170 people from a truly cross–community cohort across Belfast, the course provides opportunities for people to engage in often difficult conversations about how borders impact a sense of identity and belonging.
One of the people who completed our course is ‘Lisa’—she had been evicted from her home in North Belfast on three different occasions due to her religion and her husband’s job. Lisa was one of 170 people from communities around Belfast, who completed our ‘Belfast and the World’ course. During the pandemic, the group met online, but before and after restrictions were lifted they met face–to–face in workshops with our facilitators and guest speakers. The programme also facilitated group visits to historical sites including Parliament Buildings and Glasnevin cemetery.
Lisa has said that our course had ‘helped her more fully understand the story of the community which had hurt her’, helping her to build more respectful relationships. Despite her own sense of loss, the course has strengthened her belief that ‘her children and grandchildren should live
in a society where there are opportunities for all of us’. Lisa is committed to a better future for everyone.
Lisa’s experience is echoed by fellow participant Anne who said participating in the project helped her develop a lot more empathy for other communities. Another participant, Tom said he loved taking part as ‘hearing different people’s stories helps me understand how the issues brought up
in the course affects them personally’.
This year, we plan to support 6,845 people like Lisa, Anne and Tom to explore difference together and discover ways in which we can all live well together. Most of the people we work with are from communities which have been disproportionately impacted by inequality.
We also plan to work with 225 leaders, supporting them to work in creative and cohesive ways to build a better future for everyone. And we plan to inspire and equip up to 40,000 people to live together better in their everyday lives, through our digital communications and by supporting the ongoing work of our community of members.
While we are incredibly grateful to large funders who support our programmes, your support is critical in enabling us to deliver our plans and play a part in building a better future for everyone.
Could you help us build a better future for everyone? A one–off donation of:
• £30 could provide a day of renewal and support for a community leader from an interface area
• £65 could enable
one person to take
part in a residential to explore difference
with others
• £100 could pay for
a facilitator to host a conversation with a group of up to 15 people to discover ways to live
well together
Or become a Regular Giver to help us build a better future on an ongoing basis.
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