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Building Change Trust

Archived Active citizenship Community and neighbourhood development Community development Governance and charity law Monitoring and evaluation organisational development Policy, advocacy and campaigning Poverty and deprivation Rural development Social inclusion Social partnership Social welfare and poverty Strategic and project planning Sustainable development Urban development Voluntary and community infrastructure volunteering Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane Fermanagh and Omagh Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Large (over £60,000)

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:

  1. Collaboration
  2. Social Finance
  3. Social Innovation
  4. Inspiring Impact
  5. Leadership
  6. 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.