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Focus magazine - issue 10

Issue 10 of Focus magazine is out. Read about amazing initiatives by youth and community groups to support our communities through the Covid 19 crisis in Ardoyne, Ballysillan and other Urban Villages areas, as well as developments with local community facilities. 
Good news: building work at Marrowbone Hub Teach Eilis and Grace Family Centre is now completed and the centres are ready to open their doors as soon as current restrictions are lifted.
Also an exciting cross community and mental health awareness initiative through sports, and innovative training for community response volunteers.
Read all about it here: https://minprintpageflip.cld.bz/Urban-Villages-Focus-Magazine-ISSUE-10/32/ 

Focus magazine - issue 9

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The spring issue of the Urban Villages magazine FOCUS has just been published.
Read it here: minprintpageflip.cld.bz/Urban-Villages-Focus-Magazine-ISSUE-9
The magazine showcases and celebrates some of the great work that people in the Urban Village communities have been doing, and continue to do during the current crisis, to promote good relations and create thriving places.
In Ardoyne and Ballysillan, this issue:
- strong community response to Covid 19 crisis across the North Belfast Urban Villages area
- Healthy Active Living for Families at Benview Community Centre
- BATS community transport programme
- Bright Ideas North Belfast
- Path to Employment Programme: profile of young trainee Mark McKenzie
- Mental Health initiatives in the North Belfast Urban Villages area
- Maire Thompson, Principal at Hazelwood College, speaker at TedX Women Stormont
- new outdoor facility at John Paul II Youth Club, Ardoyne
- building work at Grace Family Centre and Marrowbone Community Hub paused during Covid 19 lockdown


Where do I get help during Covid 19 crisis - in Upper North Belfast

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Ardoyne Youth Enterprise has put together a Guide to Covid 19 support services for Upper North Belfast, published in partnership with North Belfast Advice Partnership and distributed through North Belfast Foodbank.
Groups and individuals are welcome to download a copy. 

You can also refer to our online guide, which is a bit messier but more detailed: www.ardoyne.org/whats-on-in-ardoyne.html

You are welcome to tell us about other services you know of: communication@ardoyne.org. We will do our best to add them to the online guide.​

The guide is published with support from TBUC through NICRC.


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​AYE Annual Report 18-19 - Young People are Amazing

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Reporting on an exciting year of youth and community development programmes, training, events and activities.

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​FOCUS issue 8

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In this issue:
- Run the Walls cross community race
- Talk Like Ted: young people present their big ideas
- Celebrating Carezone community health project
- Ardoyne and Marrowbone Community Festival
- Benview Community Centre
- Ligoniel Primary School
- Ardoyne and Ballysillan Run the Walls Santa Race
- Ballysillan Christmas Lantern Parade
- Ardoyne Christmas Festival
And lots more. Read it here: Focus Magazine issue 8

FOCUS issue 7

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In this issue of the Urban Villages magazine, contributions from North Belfast include:
- The Silence of the Ceasefire Generation, by AYE and Imagine Festival
- NBWISP Meet The Neighbours event
- Women's Tec Gala Awards
- Vivien Davidson, BBC NI Unsung Heroes award winner
- Ardbone Festival
- Marrowbone Sunningdale volunteer development project
- Youth Access counselling programme by Newlife and Jigsaw


- Reading Partners literacy programme
- Holy Cross Nursery School new outdoor play area
- NBWISP, Ballysillan Youth For Christ and Women's Tec summer programmes 
- Uniting communities through sport and creativity, a TBUC programme for North Belfast young people
and lots more.
Read it here: Focus magazine issue 7
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FOCUS issues 5 and 6

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Issue 5: Christmas Special
Issue 6: February 19
In these 2 issues of the Urban Villages magazine, contributions from North Belfast include:
- TASCIT cross-community Christmas event
- WomensTec Carribean celebration


- Youth engagement event with Belfast Lord Mayor and Youth Forum
- update on YEHA / StreetBeat Carezone in Schools programme
-  Meet the Neighbours with NBWISP
- Connected Futures training for volunteer welfare rights advisers
- Marrowbone and Ballysillan parks development consultation events
- Urban Villages shared learning event on youth work with contributions from North Belfast Alternatives, Ardoyne Youth Enterprise and Carezone in Schools
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AYE annual report 17-18
​A throw back to what we did from April 17 to March 18. 
A busy, exciting year.
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Get Your Voice Heard report
On Wednesday 9 January 2019, Ardoyne Youth Enterprise organised a youth engagement event with Belfast Lord Mayor Deirdre Hargey, Belfast Youth Forum, a young leader from Ardoyne Youth Club, and a representative from the Urban Villages Initiative:
· to inspire young people in North Belfast to participate in decision-making in their community and in wider society;
· to give them an opportunity to share their issues and concerns with decision-makers.
There was a short Q&A session and a ‘post-it’ consultation of the under 25s in the room.
​This report lists the young people's responses to the consultation.

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FOCUS issue 4
In this issue of the Urban Villages magazine, contributions from North Belfast include:
- Women’s Tec ‘Yes She Can’ project and Women Connecting Communities programme
- NBWISP Everton Garden
- Ardbone Festival
- North Belfast Friendship Club
- AYE Speak Up Ardoyne and Marrowbone films
- Sunningdale Beacon
- TASCIT event on 20 years of the Peace Process
- Ardoyne Association courses for young women
- TASCIT Challenging Conversations cross-community course

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FOCUS issue 3
The third issue of FOCUS, the Urban Villages magazine, is a joint effort involving all five Urban Villages areas (Ardoyne/Ballysillan, Southside, Eastside, Colin and Derry/L'Derry).
Contributions from North Belfast include:
- Launch of Carezone youth wellbeing project in schools
- Stormont presentation for Boys Model restorative practice project
- Generation 17 at Blue Houses
Worth a look. Read it here: FOCUS magazine issue 3 

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FOCUS issue 2
Ardoyne Youth Enterprise contributed articles to the second issue of FOCUS, the newsletter of the Urban Villages Initiative, on some great local projects, including:
- Carezone initiative in Sacred Heart parish
- NBWISP's Let it Grow project with primary schools in Ardoyne and greater Ballysillan
- Meet the Neighbours event in Glenbryn
- BlueHouses new building
- and of course, the launch of AYE Youth survey!
​Read it here: ​FOCUS magazine issue 2 
See all the Urban Villages newsletters here.
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AYE Youth Survey 2017

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​​What's Up Ardoyne & Marrowbone?
A guide to what's on, where and when - Spring 2017

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​Ardoyne Youth Enterprise Annual Report April 16-March 17
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​Building communities - United Communities - Spring 2017
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North Belfast FOCUS
Ardoyne Youth Enterprise contributed articles on some great projects to the first issue of FOCUS, the newsletter of the Urban Villages Initiative, recently distributed to households in Ardoyne and Ballysillan.
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​You can read it here: FOCUS issue 1 ​

And see all the Urban Villages newsletters here.
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AYE films and publications 

Available on this website: ardoyne.org/publications
on our YouTube Channel: YouTube/ArdoyneYouthEnterprise​ 
or on our Facebook page: Facebook/ArdoyneYouthEnterpris/videos

  • Online readings by local writer Paul McVeigh from his novel The Good Son
  • Happy Belfast Pride 2020 - Ardoyne youth and community groups message to Virtual Belfast Pride 2020
  • MADE - films recording the work of the Monkstown Ardoyne Diversity and Empowerment Programme
  • Where do I get help during Covid 19 crisis? a guide to community response services in Upper North Belfast, collated, edited and designed for North Belfast Advice Partnership
  • Ardoyne and Marrowbone Sing 12 Days of Christmas: a community video, December 2019
  • Speak Up Ardoyne and Marrowbone: a series of interviews with residents and workers of all ages and walks of life: 2018-2019
  • Get Your Voice Heard - a report on a youth engagement event on young people’s participation in community and civic life, January 2019
  • Out of Order: a series of films by young people on stereotypes and how they affect them, January 2018
  • Ardoyne and Marrowbone do Jingle Bells: a community video, December 2017
  • AYE Youth Survey 2017
  • North Belfast projects reports in FOCUS magazine (an Urban Villages NI publication)
  • What's Up Ardoyne & Marrowbone? A guide to what's on, where and when. Spring 2017
  • Annual reports: 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17
  • Building Communities, United Communities - a report on projects funded by North Belfast Strategic Good Relations Programme 2017

More films on our Facebook page, including concerts from our Virtual Music Festival 2020.

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