GREATER NEW LODGE CEP MAGAZINE March 2014 Ashton Centre, 5 Churchill Street, BT15 2BP Tel: (028) 90742255 email: [email protected] New Lodge Youth Centre Going From Strength to Strength

Paul Roberts (Chief Executive Ashton Community Trust) , Katrina Newell (Youth Centre Manager)with staff, volunteers and young people at the New Lodge Youth Centre

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Page 4 Compiled & Supported by Ashton Community Trust March 2014 Greater New Lodge Community Empowerment Partnership Belfast Mayor Mairtin O’Muilleoir visits “it’s not about the wheelchair, stupid!” I am in their debt the Ashton Fab Lab for bringing me to that understanding. 7KXUVGD\WKRI)HEUXDU\VDZWKH$VKWRQ&RPPXQLW\7UXVW SOD\KRVWWR%HOIDVW¶Vµ)LUVW&LWL]HQ¶0D\RU0DLUWLQ2¶0XLOOHRU Similarly, you can’t capture the genius of the people DVKHYLVLWHGLWVSUHVWLJLRXV)DE/DE7KH0D\RUZDVJLYHQ of the New Lodge in North Belfast — who survived the DWRXURIWKH)DE/DEE\$VKWRQVWDIIDQGZDVDOVRDEOHWR worst of our years of darkness — by branding them ZLWQHVVDW¿UVWKDQGDYLVLWLQJJURXSRISXSLOVIURPµ*DHOVFRLO as disadvantaged. Indeed, this week, I witnessed the 6FRLO$Q'URLFKLG¶LQ6RXWK%HOIDVWDQG\RXQJPHQIURP$&7¶V advantage in this ebullient community when I visited 6:((7SURJUDPPHGHVLJQLQJDQGPDNLQJWKHLURZQSRGFDVW the Fab Lab, a hub of tech education, innovation DVSDUWRIWKHQHZGLJLWDOUHYROXWLRQ'XULQJWKHYLVLWWKH0D\RU and creativity linked to the original Fab Lab in the SUHVHQWHG WKH SURMHFW ZLWK D &LW\ &RXQFLO &RPPHQGDWLRQ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, probably the &HUWL¿FDWH$VDUHVXOWRIKLVYLVLW0DLUWLQZURWHWKHIROORZLQJ world’s greatest centre of tech innovation. piece on his NewBelfast.Com Blog There isn’t a leading tech company or science department in any university in Ireland which wouldn’t give it’s eye- tooth for this Fab Lab but here it is ensconced in the heart of a working class community. And that’s not the only advantage this proud community has because the Fab Lab itself is hosted by the Ashton Centre, a JURXQGEUHDNLQJQRWIRUSUR¿WRUJDQLVDWLRQVHWXSE\ local people who bought founders share in the enterprise back in 1988.

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For some time, I have thought that the word ‘disadvantaged’ when applied to entire communities across Belfast doesn’t adequately capture the verve, spirit and genius of the people I encounter at the coalface of change in our working class neighbourhoods.

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