Belfast City Council: Community Investment Programme

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Overview

The Belfast Community Investment Programme (BCIP), will establish a new investment fund to support the city's community sector to deliver a series of shared outcomes for Belfast.

They had planned to proceed with BCIP ahead of other reforms of local government as a pilot programme. And, as part of this work, we were committed to carrying out a consultation and Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA). However, because of timings associated with Local Government Reform, they will not be able to confirm the budget that will transfer to them for community development work until spring 2014. This means that they cannot complete the EQIA required to implement BCIP in 2015.

They have therefore decided to delay its introduction until 2017.

They are committed to investing resources in community development and will continue to offer their existing grant streams and support for capacity building in the sector during 2014 and 2015.

Once they can confirm their community development budget for 2015 to 2017, they will open their existing grant programmes to all groups, including those in the new areas that will form part of the extended Belfast council area. These existing grants (for revenue support, capacity support and advice and information) will not change in any substantial way. They will keep you informed on this they move forward.

Their work will continue based on substantial political agreements already established around BCIP.

These include:

an agreed working definition of community development
an agreed outcomes framework which can be used to determine new grant schemes and the measurement of impact
a commitment to a single programme to replace the six legacy grant schemes.

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