Cross Community

We are based on the peaceline at Northumberland St. between Shankill & Falls Rd. Our centre is a converted warehouse with child care facilities, coffee shop, main auditorium and sports hall as well as offices. We run many projects helping the local and wider community.

“working with local communities to find opportunities for individual and collective learning and education”.

Friends Forever International empowers leaders to connect, strengthen, and serve communities around the globe by combining their passion to make the world a better place with the skills, experiences, and resources required to do so. ​FFI’s vision is that every individual is supported to change their lives, their communities, and the world. ​FFI's goal is that every person who desires, regardless of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic status, will have the opportunity to build their leadership skills beyond what they imagined possible before participating in the programme.

The Gifted Project is the delivery of the Building Positive Relations programme on behalf of the Peace 4 Partnership and Ards North Down Borough Council. This project, working across the Borough, will link urban and rural, and will be delivered in partnership with our friends in Co Down Rural Network, Ards Development Bureau and Co Down Scouts Asssociation.

The Search & Rescue Dog Association Ireland North (SARDA IN) was founded in 1978 and for over 40 years we have been training and deploying specialist, multi-discipline Search and Rescue (SAR) Dogs in Northern Ireland, Ireland, the UK and Internationally to locate missing people in various terrain.