PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES Annual Report 1st April 2015 – 31st March 2016 Full Members

Addiction NI Links Women’s Group African Community Trust MACARA Women’s Group Age Concern East & Mountpottinger Methodist Church Chair & Executive Director Ardcarn Residents Road Elim Pentecostal Church Women’s Centre Newtownards Road Women’s Group Ballymac Friendship Trust Oak Partnership Ballymacarrett District LOL No 6 District Oasis Caring in Action Ballymacarrett Somme Festival Oasis Trading In Action Welcome to our annual report covering April 2015 – Belfast East Seniors Forum Palmerston Residents Association Bloomfield Community Association Round Tower Community Project March 2016. Following the theme of our 2015 – 2020 Boring Wells Community Forum BRACE (Ballymac Regeneration & Short Strand Festival Strategy ‘People Build Communities’, we want to Com Enterprise) Short Strand Partnership Community Association Silver Liners Group present a more graphic representation of our work Play Care /Playgroup Skainos Clonduff Community Association Solway Stars FC over the past 12 months, we hope, to make it easier Connswater Women’s Group Survivors of Suicide Support Group Conswater Community Group Sydenham Gardening Association to understand and to allow us to show you the Community Association Sydenham United FC Cregagh Retired Active Gentlemen Tagit Fishing Club impact and outcome of our work. Dundonald Sea Cadets The Aslan Association East Belfast Enterprise The Hopefuls As in previous years, this report can only give you a brief flavour East Belfast Mission The Rivers Community Project EBIAC - East Belfast Independent Advice Centre The Well Project of the extent of our work. We have focussed a lot on recording Engage with Age Titanic School Project the impact of our work. We are continually refining the recording Friends of Mullan Mews Tullycarnet Community Support Services Ltd Friends of Victoria Park Victoria PACT process to ensure we are measuring the impact in an appropriate Friends of Edgcumbe Walkway Community Association way, focussing on our Mission and our Theory of Change. These are: Greenway Women’s Centre Wandsworth Area Residents’ Group Inner East Youth Project Wandsworth Community Association Inner East Forum Willowfield Parish Church Inverary House Willowfield Parish Community Association Knights Men’s Group Wise Men of the East Network Mission Lagan Village Youth & Community Group

East Belfast Community Development Agency exists to provide Associate Members resources, support and capacity building programmes for community Alison Wightman Inverary Community Centre groups that are based on partnership, equal opportunities and Ashfield Boys’ High School Knocknagoney Community Centre sustainable outcomes. Avoniel Leisure Centre Knocknagoney Primary School Avoniel Primary School Live by the Word of God Ministries Youth Forum National Trust NI Belfast City Council Women’s Institute Belfast Health & Social Care Trust (Com Dev) NI Housing Executive Belfast Interface Project Start 360 Theory of Change Belfast Regeneration Office Ravenhill Presbyterian Men’s Fellowship Bracken Beacon Day Support Ravenscroft Nursery School Castlereagh Community Safety Partnership RNIB (Belfast Activity Programme) EBCDA’s job is to add value to the activity undertaken by groups in Charter for Sport Tae Kwan Do NI local areas and to work with key organisations to ensure the continued Citizens Advice Belfast The Junction Club development of a community sector in East Belfast that is recognised, Clara Park Tenants & Residents’ Association The National Trust NI Connswater Homes Ltd The Ullans Academy valued and effective. We seek to support successful community Contact NI The Ultra Rare Diseases Disorders & Disabilities development, encourage reflective practice and promote cooperation Creative Exchange Artist Studios Foundation Dundonald Green Belt Association Tuesday Mother & Toddlers and locally based solutions. East Belfast Alternatives Tullycarnet Yarnspinners East Belfast Area Youth Project Wilgar Community Forum Association East Belfast Learning Disability Services Willowfield Credit Union GEMS Northern Ireland Limited Youth Action Green Action Youth Initiatives 03 Hosford House Our three themes, detailed below, form the day to day basis of our work

Theme one Theme two Theme three Community Support Community Resource Community Development & Capacity Building & Finance Services Training, Education & Advocacy

To assess the needs of To promote good financial To encourage, support and the community sector management practice facilitate the provision of and work with other key in the community sector quality community organisations to draw up by offering financial development education programmes, projects, management and training opportunities. To plans and strategies that advice, training services seek to influence the policies build capacity. and a community of community, voluntary, accountancy service. government and public agencies so that they recognise the value of adopting a community development approach and that the community sector in East Belfast might benefit.

04 05 How our work has impacted East Belfast EBCDA held 53 events with 1,021 people attending. These events were conferences, seminars, consultations, forums, training, community development café 95 They heard about the event through were based in East Belfast Facebook 3%

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In the following age groups 18-25 5% 26-40 26% 41-60 35% EBCDA had 61-74 23% an average of 35% 57 75+ 11% 520 interventions Interventions per staff member The people involved were

These people had an income of consisting of governance, finance support, charity £10,000< 49% we supported registration, applying for £10,001 - £20,000 24% funding, developing programmes, developing and £20.001 - £30,000 14% implementing policies, health 33% 67% £30,001 - £40,000 5% 75 programmes focussing on the volunteers 5 themes of healthy hearts, MALE FEMALE £ 40,0 01> 8% healthy minds, healthy bodies, 0 10 20 30 40 50 healthy communities, % 06 healthy relationships 07 How do we know? (information gathered from Intervention Record Forms)

As part of the process, staff were asked to record comments, within the Intervention Record Form, under 6 sections. What follows is an example from the 120 Intervention Record Forms

How was initial contact made or developed Your View On Impact with this group? (Will Impact Be Long Term)

• This group is an ongoing concern, facilitated by EBCDA. • The group has a long-term plan but needed some support like this to get started with some “quick wins.” • Contacted by group and asked for information on training, programmes and information. • Medium if funding is successful but it could lead to long term impact if further funding is sought. • Connect to local communities; to hear local concerns/issues/ ideas, promote programmes, service delivery and training • Participant’s were able to recognise what causes them stress, provision of EBCDA, to support local health focused work and how they currently deal with it and provided strategies to enable increase local participation. them to manage this better in the future.

Intended Impact Groups View On Impact (What Difference Did We Want To Make) (Impact Statements)

• The aim of the group is to bring together community groups, • 13 groups involved are grateful for EBCDAs support in services providers and statutory agencies to look at issues coordinating new collaborative work in place relating to enforcement, awareness raising and education, • Easy to understand information provided and great interactive services and support. display of resources that attracted interest and encouraged • To build the capacity of group to apply for funding. participation

• Connect to local communities; to hear local concerns/issues/ • Support from EBCDA has allowed us to think differently about ideas, promote programmes, service delivery and training how we approach our work in the community provision of EBCDA, to support local health focused work and increase local participation.

Training Programme Details

Unintended Impact • Personal Development and Parent & Teen Communication (What Additional Difference Did We Make) • First Aid in The Work Place • Helped to coordinate a response to drug dealing and drug paraphernalia in the Titanic halt area. • Introduction to Community Development

• Created more work for EBCDA! (in terms of drawing up research template and gathering responses)

• Influenced funding application to reduce duplication of programmes and enabled complementary work across East.

08 09 We are grateful to our staff team and Board of Directors for their time, effort and commitment to EBCDA. Thanks also to our funders, Belfast Regeneration Office (BRO) Department for Social Development (DSD) Belfast City Council (BCC) and the Public Health Agency (PHA). Thank you also to our members for their support and working closely with us to build towards achieving our strategy for 2015-2020 “People Build Communities”.

Board of Directors Cliff Kennedy Chairperson Margaret Ferguson Karen Purdy Vice Chairperson Liz Oslon Bernie McConnell Hon Secretary Glenn Jordan (Co-Option) Rev Mervyn Gibson Hon Treasurer Janice Cherry (Co-Option) Sammy Douglas Bobby Ellison (Co-Option) Tommy Sandford Richard Williamson (Co-Option) Rachael Davison Staff Members Michael Briggs Executive Director Alison Bryans Health Connections Worker Kim Briggs Resource & Finance Director Katy Gaston Volunteer Development Co-Ordinator Jonny Currie Community Support Director Trisha McQueen Receptionist & Administrative Linda Armitage Health Development Support Officer Director Jean Higginson Admin Support Officer Clare Flynn Suicide Prevention Development Officer Marie-Anne Templeman Finance Manager Alan Houston Health Development Worker Lynn Heatley Community Support Worker (Ballybeen) Sharon Traynor Health Development mrssmyth.co.uk Worker Diane Allison Admin Officer

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