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Wonderful Wander
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Excalibur Press

A unique walking tour through one of Belfast’s most historic areas is set to uncover the city’s fascinating stories of migration, transformation, and community.
Peacemakers
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Excalibur Press

The 4 Corners Festival is returning in 2025 for its 13th year, and is jampacked with a range of exciting practical workshops, talks, discussions and sport activities across Belfast.
Arts Care Christmas Show.
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Excalibur Press

Arts in health charity Arts Care recently hosted its much-anticipated Christmas show at Knockbracken Healthcare Park, welcoming over 100 attendees, including service users and staff from day centres across the Belfast Trust.
Nuala McKeever
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Excalibur Press

Belfast comedian Nuala McKeever’s acclaimed one-woman show, Truth, Love or Promise is set to take centre stage at the 4 Corners Festival next year. Promising an evening of laughter, poignancy, and powerful storytelling the show will take place on Saturday
Darren Crawford
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Excalibur Press

After months out of work, Co Antrim man Darren Crawford has turned his experience in hospitality cleaning into a successful business, building a thriving company that has already secured major contracts.
From left brother and sister Abdelmonieum and Maryam Salman, Ed Petersen (4 Corners Festival) and Joshua Curtis
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Excalibur Press

Now in its 13th year, the 4 Corners Festival was conceived as a way to inspire people from across the city to transform it for the peace and wellbeing of all.
Action Cancer
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Sonya Cassidy PR

Staff and customers of Gordons Chemists branches across Northern Ireland have come together once again to raise an incredible £16,570 for Action Cancer.
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ASCERT

ASCERT are delighted to announce 4 new drug and alcohol awareness training courses for 2025 which are FREE to those working in the community, voluntary and statutory sectors.
Take Back the City coalition campaigners deliver Christmas gifts to Communities Minister, Gordon Lyons; Economy Minister, Conor Murphy; and officials at Belfast City Council, Invest NI, and NIHE, with the results of the public consultation and petition on their masterplan for Mackie’s, the largest publicly owned, vacant site in the city of Belfast. www.takebackthecity.ie
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Housing activists presented the Communities Minister, Gordon Lyons; Economy Minister, Conor Murphy; and officials at Belfast City Council, Invest NI, and NIHE, with the results of the public consultation and petition on their masterplan for Mackie's.
Antrim camogie players Colleen Patterson, Maeve Kelly and Roisin McCormack in Kenya. www.selfhelpafrica.org
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Close to 40 inter-county GAA stars are just back from Kenya, where they launched a​ campaign to plant a million trees to raise awareness of global warming and combat the​ effects of climate change in Africa.
Queens Quay Kiosk
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Maritime Belfast Trust

There’s a new addition to Belfast’s waterfront with the opening of the Queen’s Quay Kiosk. Located between the Odyssey Arena and the Lagan Weir pedestrian bridge, the new coffee kiosk is part of ongoing plans to develop Belfast’s historic waterfront as a
Fifteen charities delivering projects across Northern Ireland have received a share of £136,328 funding through the A&O Shearman Foundation, managed locally by the Belfast Grants Committee. Ciaran McCallion, Head of HR; Heather Mowbray, Senior Associate; and Nik Simon, Head of Finance, all members of the Belfast Grants Committee made the announcement today.
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Open Strategic Communications

Fifteen charities delivering projects across Northern Ireland have received a share of £136,328 funding through the A&O Shearman Foundation, a 54% increase on funds distributed last year.
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SONI Ltd

SONI’s newly published Public Engagement Model places an enhanced focus on broadening community participation
Pictured at Queen’s Business Hub is (L-R): Dr Danielle McConville, Head of Department for Accounting of Queen's Business School; Bronagh Luke, Head of Corporate Marketing at Henderson Group; Kristina Hyland, Audit Director at BDO NI; Ciaran Connolly, Professor and Deputy Head of Queen’s Business School; Claire Scott McAteer, Senior Lecturer at Queen’s Business School; Laura Jackson, BDO NI Partner and Head of Audit; and Billy Moore, Group Financial Director at Henderson Group.
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Open Strategic Communications

More than 100 students from various schools throughout Northern Ireland are anticipated to showcase their entrepreneurial abilities at the upcoming NI Schools’ Business Challenge 2025, with registration for the event now open.
Khadija Kuroi from Machanga, Kenya, took part in a Self Help Africa programme - receiving improved breed birds to begin poultry breeding.
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Imagine buying a gift this Christmas that would not alone bring joy to your loved one, but could also help to transform the life of a rural poor family in Africa? The good news is that you can – with Lifetime Gifts from Self Help Africa.
Sarah Magennis, East Belfast Enterprise
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Sarah Magennis from Crumlin has recently graduated with a Master of Science with commendation. Employed as Senior Receptionist at East Belfast Enterprise, Sarah completed her Masters with her new baby Freddie by her side.
James Brown & Sons hosted a candlelit service, ‘Light Up The Night’, in St Anne’s Cathedral, celebrating people throughout Northern Ireland who are no longer with us. The service was attended by High Sheriff of Belfast Cllr Sammy Douglas, The Dean of Belfast, Very Rev Stephen Forde, staff of James Brown & Sons and representatives of Cruse Bereavement Support Northern Ireland. www.jamesbrownfuneraldirectors.com
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James Brown & Sons has hosted the second candlelit service ‘Light Up The Night, An Occasion to Remember’ in St Anne's Cathedral. Dedicated to bereaved people throughout Northern Ireland, the service celebrated those no longer with us.
4 Corners Festival Co-Founders Reverend Steve Stockman and Father Martin Magill
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Excalibur Press

The annual 4 Corners Festival is back for another packed lineup of events next year.
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Platinum Training Institute

It's Our 10th Birthday!
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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Meet the Chief Charity Commissioner and get an in-depth look at the work of the regulator at the Commission’s annual public meeting.
Pictured (L-R) at Kilcooley Pantry in Bangor is Choice Housing’s Financial Inclusion Manager Aidan McCrea, Kilcooley Women’s Centre Chief Executive Alison Blayney BEM, and Choice Housing’s Director of Tenant and Client Services Carol Ervine.
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Open Strategic Communications

One of Northern Ireland’s largest housing providers has renewed its commitment to tackling food poverty by making a £5,000 donation to support the life-changing work of one Bangor social supermarket.
Play Survey
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PlayBoard NI

Belfast City Council has commissioned PlayBoard NI to lead on the development of a Play Strategy for the city.
Organ Donation Discussion Day
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Public Health Agency

Everyone is encouraged to have a conversation this Organ Donation Discussion Day.
Gerard Anderson.
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Brown O'Connor

Gerard Anderson has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Brain Injury Matters.
Westminster Meeting: Delegation pictured at a meeting in Westminster: Gary McErlain, Chair of Lough Neagh Partnership; Michael Browne of Lough Neagh Partnership; Simon Hoare MP; Cathal Mallaghan MP; Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12 th Earl of Shaftesbury; Gerry Darby of Lough Neagh Partnership; and Dr Peter Doran of Queen’s University Belfast.
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A delegation from Lough Neagh Partnership met with Members of Parliament at Westminster to discuss the future management and preservation of Lough Neagh and to widen support for its recovery.