The Department for Communities (DfC) will be facilitating a series of stakeholder engagement events to seek views on the development of a programme providing support for women wishing to be involved in community transformation. This engagement process is being undertaken as part of the Department’s contribution to the Fresh Start initiative and to the delivery of the Executive’s Action Plan – Tackling Paramilitarism, Criminality and Organised Crime.
A series of engagement sessions have been arranged to gather your views about the programme’s proposed content which is designed to:
Be supportive and enhance the ability of the women participants to work in their communities by making new connections to community and voluntary sector groups and also through community action.
Support the creation of influential relationships for women that build participation in our political structures and grow civic leadership from the neighbourhood level upwards.
Information in relation to the stakeholder engagement and work undertaken by DfC’s Voluntary and Community Division to date in relation to this initiative can be accessed via the Department for Communities website.
The stakeholder engagement sessions will be held as follows:
22 May - Coleraine
Causeway Rural & Urban Network Hub, 1 Brook St.
2 – 4 pm
23 May - Derry-Londonderry
Holywell Trust, 10-14 Bishop St.
2 – 4 pm
24 May - Belfast
Spectrum Centre, 331 Shankill Rd.
10 am – noon
24 May - Craigavon
Mount Zion House, Edward St, Lurgan
2 – 4 pm
25 May - Dungannon
The Junction, 12 Beechvalley Way
2 – 4 pm
25 May - Newry
Ballybot House, 28 Cornmarket
7 – 9 pm
26 May - Belfast
Training for Women Network, 11-13 Bloomfield Av.
10 am – noon
30 May - Belfast
Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, 216 Falls Rd.
10 am – noon
30 May - Belfast
Weavers Court Business Park, Linfield Rd.
3 – 5 pm
30 May - Larne
Larne Town Hall, 1-9 Upper Cross St.
7 – 9 pm
31 May - Carrickfergus
Carrickfergus Town Hall, 2B Joymount
7 – 9 pm
31 May - Belfast
NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens
10 am – noon
1 June - Bangor
Bangor Carnegie Library, Hamilton Rd.
7 – 9 pm
2 June - Lisburn
Bridge Community Centre, 50 Railway St.
10 am – noon
Advance registration is not required. However, for planning purposes it would be appreciated if you would email Donna-Marie.Hancock@communities-ni.gov.uk or telephone (028) 9082 9406 and provide the names and contact details of proposed attendees.