Building Change Trust
Overview
The Trust anticipates a total fund of £12.1 million, depending on investment returns, with approximately £10.5 million available to support the sector.
The Trust supports the community and voluntary sector in Northern Ireland through the development, delivery of, and learning from a range or programmes including commissioned work, awards programmes and other interventions.
Between now and 2018, resources will be used to support the community and voluntary sector to achieve more and better collaboration, increased sustainability and to be a learning sector which identifies, shares and acts on lessons of others’ actions. This work will be carried out across 6 overarching thematic areas:
- Collaboration
- Social Finance
- Social Innovation
- Inspiring Impact
- Leadership
- Creating Space for Civic Thinking.
Timescales
Three broad phases of activity:
Phase 1: (Year 1-2) Establishment, profiling community assets and needs
Phase 2: (Year 2-9) Targeted capacity/asset building and transformation with RPA
Phase 3: (Year 9-10) Consolidating the learning and closure.