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KP Snacks Stumps Up A Grand For Local Cricket Clubs

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CRICKET clubs across Northern Ireland could knock their financial worries for six with a spin-credible £1,000 cash prize this summer, thanks to a campaign by KP Snacks (NI) to support its long-standing partnership with blockbuster cricket competition The Hundred. The Hundred is a fast-paced, action-packed televised 100-ball cricket tournament featuring world-class players and massive names […]

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Translink Announces Northern Ireland Hospice As New Three-Year Charity Partner

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Translink is proud to announce Northern Ireland Hospice as its new charity partner, launching a three-year partnership that will support vital hospice care services for individuals and families across Northern Ireland. The partnership will see Translink employees, passengers and stakeholders come together through a range of fundraising activities, awareness initiatives and community engagement opportunities over

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Specsavers Set Sights On Second Year Of Simon Community Clinics At Anniversary Celebrations

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Store partners from Specsavers stores across Northern Ireland recently came together with accommodation managers and partners at Simon Community to celebrate a successful first year of eye testing clinics for people experiencing homelessness in Northern Ireland. Since June 2024, thirteen clinics have been set up by optometrists in the towns and communities within which they

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Our Common Home Exhibition Highlights Environmental Responsibility at 4 Corners Festival

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A striking photography exhibition exploring environmental responsibility is set to open as part of the 2025 4 Corners Festival. The Our Common Home Exhibition will launch at 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast, at 4pm on Friday January 31, marking the beginning of its week-long run. The 4 Corners Festival, now in its 13th year, runs from

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The Big Lunch Community Spirit shines across Northern Ireland during June

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The Big Lunch weekend kickstarted a month of people across Northern Ireland holding a range of community get togethers as part of the Month of Community. People in towns, villages, neighbourhoods and rural areas across the UK and beyond will stop everything and sit down together for lunch. The Big Lunch is an idea from the Eden project, made possible by

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BBC’s Mark Davenport Leads BBC Spotlight Special – A Contested Centenary

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Community tensions and violence have been recurring features of life in Northern Ireland since its creation 100 years ago. In a special one-hour Spotlight, former BBC Northern Ireland Political Editor Mark Devenport returns to our screens to explore aspects of Northern Ireland’s past and present and what its future might hold. Speaking to an extraordinary

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BBC NI Tells The Story Of Derry Football Club’s Big Comeback

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Bombscares, Benfica and the Brandywell Stadium. This is the story of a community that needed to catch a break and how its football club, exiled from the league for more than a decade, was brought back from the dead. The Brandywell was one of the poorest areas in Europe and home to Derry City Football

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Free Workshops from Creative Connections

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Creative Connections is a cultural, arts-based project whose aim is to work creatively with a wide range of groups in order to promote discussion and debate on issues facing local communities today and to promote shared visions for the future. The group are currently running free online workshops and are looking for community, youth or

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Meet The Artist: Moon Music

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Moon Music is a group of adults with learning disabilities, volunteers, and Seonaid Murray their Outreach Officer, aged 21 – 71ish. They live in Belfast, Dundonald, Larne, Portadown, Bangor, Spain, Scotland, New Jersey and New York. Moon Music is a weekly Music Workshop that runs as part of the Moon Base Projects for and by people

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Northern Ireland’s Oldest Cinema Turns 85 With The Launch Of ‘Strand Stories’

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Northern Ireland’s oldest cinema building is celebrating its 85th birthday. The Strand in East Belfast was opened by the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Sir Crawford McCullagh, on 7th December 1935. Since then, three or four generations of the same families have been through its doors. This week also sees the launch of ‘Strand Stories’, a

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NI Scrubs Draws To A Close After Making 106,000 Items For Care Staff

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The mammoth effort of pulling together thousands of people to sew scrubs, scrub hats and gowns for hospitals, hospices, care homes and other caring professionals has drawn to a close with 106,000 items delivered to key workers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. The brainchild of Clara Maybin at the start of the first lockdown, when nursing

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Social Media Star Adam B Gives Young YouTubers A Gift To Remember

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Last weekend Derry YouTube star Adam Beales gave out over £20k worth of gifts to people he believed needed help. But three young people really stood out to him because they aspire to having YouTube success just like the 20-year-old who is better known as Adam B online. Adam had asked for nominations for children

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Derry YouTube Star Adam B’s £20k Handout To Community From An IceCream Van

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Derry YouTube sensation Adam Beales has handed out more than £20k worth of gifts to children and their families following an online appeal for nominations of those deserving a treat in these difficult times. Known as Adam B to his 2.7m YouTube followers, the 20-year-old fulfilled a lifetime dream of being an ice cream man,

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Brought to you by DOWN ROYAL RACECOURSE AND COALITION AGENCY THE ULTIMATE DRIVE-IN ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE 7th – 8th August 2020

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TICKETS ON SALE FROM 10AM FRIDAY 12TH JUNE Buckle up Belfast! Summer 2020 looks to have sadly been postponed until 2021 BUT the party goes on! Down Royal Racecourse are delighted to present CAR PARK PARTY, the UK’s only LIVE touring event and first socially distanced and safe entertainment experience. CAR PARK PARTY is a ‘drive-in’

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Titanic Drive-in Concerts Set for Belfast! 3rd – 5th July 2020

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Some of Northern Ireland’s finest performers are coming together to host Belfast’s very first series of drive-in concerts. Hosted by Peter Corry Productions the event will be staged on Belfast’s iconic Maritime Mile at the Titanic Slipways in front of a backdrop of the impressive Titanic Belfast and the Titanic Hotel. The event will run for

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‘Alleyways’ Public Art Project Connecting Artists With Communities In Armagh

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Armagh is gearing up for a major creative initiative that offers local people a chance to get involved in the development of a new series of public artworks for the city centre. Throughout February and March 2019, the Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre will host a lively programme of FREE hands-on creative workshops, illustrated

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New Initiative To Support Belfast’s Young People To Develop Their Future Careers

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Young people across Belfast are being given the opportunity to take part in a new initiative designed to support them in their future careers. More than 4,000 teens across the city will taken part in the Belfast City Council’s Career Development Programme which will provide post-primary school pupils with opportunities to experience the world of work, support them

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Supervalu Launches Search To Find NI’s Superstars

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People across Northern Ireland are being called on to nominate their local heroes, as part of a major new campaign to uncover our most inspirational individuals. The new SuperValu SuperStars initiative will honour unsung heroes in local communities that have gone beyond the call of duty to help someone in need. online pharmacy buy pepcid

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A ‘Good Little Fellow’ Hops Out At Belfast Zoo This Easter!

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It’s not just the Easter bunny that Belfast Zoo visitors have spotted this Easter, as Kau Kau the Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo has finally ‘hopped’ out of mum’s pouch to greet the Easter crowds! Kau Kau was born to mother, Jaya and father, Hasu Hasu last summer but the joey has only recently ventured from her

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Is It Time To Move Away From The Monetary System?

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In every corner of our society from a very young age, money holds a dominant place in our lives. From leaving school to retirement, the accumulation of money is encouraged as our life’s goal. But in modern society, is this the best that humanity can do? online pharmacy https://healthandvitalitycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/doxycycline.html no prescription There are those who

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Do You Know An Outstanding Student Who Dedicates Their Free Time To Helping Others?

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AN awards programme which rewards post-primary students for outstanding acts of volunteerism and the positive contribution they make in their local communities and further afield is calling for applications. On Friday this week applications for The Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards 2016 programme will close marking the ten year anniversary of the scheme. The annual awards

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New Arts Organisation TheatreNI Launches At The Lyric Theatre In Belfast

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TheatreNI, a new organisation to support and develop theatre and performing arts in Northern Ireland launched at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. The new organisation is the result of a merger between the Northern Ireland Theatre Association and the Ulster Association of Youth Drama. Many of Northern Ireland’s theatres and arts centres; performing arts companies; youth

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Do You Want To Be In With A Chance Of Winning £3,000 For Your Local Kids Group?

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LITTLE Wing Pizzeria is encouraging local children’s clubs to grab a slice of the action by applying for the Little Wing’s Little Stars bursary scheme, which will see £3,000 up for grabs. Following on from the success of last year’s scheme, this year the bursaries are returning bigger and better and will be open to

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Northern Ireland Calais Refugee Solidarity Collection Points, Information & Volunteer Picture Gallery

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THE growing refugee crisis has prompted many people in Northern Ireland to ask how they can help those fleeing from Syria and neighbouring countries to make the perilous journey into Europe. In response, a group called Northern Ireland Calais Refugee Solidarity has been set up to organise local collection points for essential items such as camping

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Teen Joins #99RedBalloons School Leukaemia Awareness Campaign

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AN East Belfast teenager is heading up a campaign to raise awareness and funds for a leukaemia charity. 19-year-old Strathern Grammar School student Emma Murphy, who lost her school friend Catherine Buchanan to leukaemia in 2013, is encouraging people to take to social media by using the hashtag #99RedBalloons to support blood cancer charity, Leukaemia

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Businesses Get Ready To Run A Charity Shop For A Day

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15 BUSINESSES from across Northern Ireland are supporting their employees as they roll up their ‘designer’ sleeves, get creative and take on running an Action Cancer shop for a day. On Friday October 9, the teams will present their activities to Gareth Kirk (Action Cancer CE), Inez Fowler (Action Cancer Ambassador) and Elaine Birchall (SHS

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Moy Park Celebrates As Charity Campaign #DriveAnEggChallenge Raises £7.5k

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STAFF at Moy Park are celebrating the success of its fund raising campaign with Cancer Fund for Children which to date has raised £7.5K for the charity. The fundraising activity included a social media nomination campaign – #DriveAnEggChallenge – which reached over 425,000 people on Facebook, gained almost 50,000 views of video clips and 675

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