Children

Boycott your Bed is a replacement for this year’s Byte Night as due to Coronavirus we are unable to hold our yearly sleep out in Belfast. As you know Action for Children’s voluntary income, like many charities, has been hit hard by the pandemic and while we have come up with new products to try and plug that gap we need your help to spread the word and get Northern Ireland signed up! What’s so exciting about this product is that anyone can sign up - it’s one for all the family!

Belfast Book Festival makes a welcome return from 10 - 13 June with an online programme of live events for book lovers, covering everything from love and politics to Cinderella as a zombie!

Children’s Potential is Our Brightest Hope for the Future Save the Children works with families to narrow the gap between children living in poverty and their better off peers. We focus on early learning to help children across NI to realise their full potential.

This course leads to certification in the Highfield Qualifications Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid.

This course leads to certification in the Highfield Qualifications Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid

This course leads to certification in the Highfield Qualifications Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid.

This course leads to certification in the Highfield Qualifications Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid.

This event is now sold out. Maritime Babies provides babies and their parents & carers with the opportunity to explore materials, sounds, colours and textures in a range of maritime and sea themed activities.

Enjoy some family fun on this trail of the Maritime Mile and explore the area’s industrial giants. Use your treasure map to spot the clues and discover how these ‘Giants’ have played a huge role in the history of Belfast’s Maritime Mile.

This full day course will provide advisers with the information required to aid claimants with all areas of Children’s DLA up to appeal, and Carers allowance.

Youth Dance Theatre for children aged 8-11, 7pm-8:30pm every Wednesday

On Thursday 9 November 2023, ‘Reimagine Children’s Collective’ – a group of charities working with children, young people and families in NI, will be launching a joint position paper to respond to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care Services in Northern Ireland. This in-person event will take place at 10:00am – 12:30pm in the Long Gallery, Parliament Buildings, Belfast.

NCB ensures that children and young people’s views and experiences guide every aspect of our work, helping us to inform policy and practice in order to bring about lasting change for children and young people, families and communities. We do this to fulfil our obligations for the promotion of the rights of all children and young people, recognising that young people are experts in their own lives and that their direct input into issues affecting them is critical in developing services which are fit for purpose.

Join us for some fun and raise vital funds for TinyLife, Northern Ireland's premature baby charity. Run or walk the 2k circuit of Kirkistown Race Track on Friday 16th August 2019 at 6:30pm and get showered and splattered with coloured paint powder during the run This event is open to all ages, children under 16 must be accompanied on the run by an adult. Sign up with friends or bring the family.

RNIB will be hosting a Visual Impairment Awareness workshop on Tuesday 26 February, 12.30 to 3.30pm in our Derry/Londonderry office, 3 Strand Road, BT48 7BH.