It’s a hat trick for Eastside Awards in association with George Best Belfast City Airport with a consistently high calibre of entries being received. A new element was introduced to the third annual awards with the public voting for their favourite beauty salon, hair salon, eatery and takeaway, attracting more than 5,000 votes on the …
East Belfast author Anna Gray last week launched her new book Coming Out Of The Dark at The Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast. In this book Anna shares with you the darkest days in her life and how she overcame them to transform her life into one filled with joy and self-love again. If you …
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The 978 pupils of Strandtown Primary school commemorated the centenary of the Armistice by painting poppy stones and making wreaths to help them understand and remember the sacrifice made by so many in the Great War of 1914-18. Many pupils have also researched family connections with the war and completed write-ups from their findings. Parents …
Belvoir Estate has been named the winner in the Large Housing Area category at the Northern Ireland Best Kept Awards 2018, in association with George Best Belfast City Airport. Belvoir won the prestigious award after impressing judges with its community involvement and effort from local businesses and residents to work together to improve their surroundings. …
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‘Life-saving’ charity partnership gets a slice of the action The annual SuperValu and Centra Fundraising Week activity will commence from October 22 – 31, to help raise cash for Action Cancer’s Big Bus and the Health Action Programme for children. This year, as well as the usual in-store fundraising, SuperValu and Centra stores are really …
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Phoenix Natural Gas and Consumer Council join forces in Volunteering Initiative 8th October 2018: Phoenix Natural Gas and The Consumer Council recently joined forces to participate in an environmental initiative at Connswater Community Gardens as part of Love Your Landscape Day on 28th September. The event, organised by Business in the Community, aimed to encourage …
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Maitri Studio & Yoga Quarter are celebrating the success of East Belfast’s first yoga festival that took place over the weekend 5-7 October. Over 350 people attended 38 yoga classes or events during the festival, many of them trying yoga for the first time. Both Maitri Studio and Yoga Quarter offered free yoga classes, on …
IKEA Belfast has announced today that it has joined forces with a local social enterprise company to help provide families in need with recycled furniture. The Holywood Exchange store has partnered with Ulster Supported Employment Ltd. (Usel), which aims to create employment and provide furniture to people living in poverty across Northern Ireland. The company …
More than 400 employees helped to restore and maintain some of NI’s top beauty spots Hundreds of business volunteers from 22 companies rolled up their sleeves and ventured out to the great outdoors on Friday 28 September to take part in #LoveYourLandscape Day – an environmental volunteering initiative organised by Business in the Community, in …
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Cars, vans and other vehicles parked on pavements will continue to force pedestrians off the pavement and into peril on busy roads, unless drivers wake up to the danger they are putting pedestrians in, says a coalition of charities and the PSNI. Leading sight loss charity, Guide Dogs NI, has joined forces with disability charity, …
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