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Celebrate Art and Craft in Ards and North Down with Creative Peninsula

Community, Days/Nights Out / By Bloom Admin

Creative Peninsula, Northern Ireland’s largest celebration of Art and Craft was officially launched in Ards and North Down this week. Now in its 17th year, this thriving annual event brings together local artists and craftspeople to demonstrate their skills and showcase their work. Taking place from Fri 3 – Wed 15 Aug 2018, Creative Peninsula, …

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Tesco Castlereagh helping Local Disadvantaged Kids

Community, News / By Bloom Admin

Tesco Castlereagh Road got together with Cash For Kids the weekend of the 28th and 30th of June, this great charity helps local disadvantaged Children, groups or individuals and they do amazing work. With the help of colleagues and are very generous customers we raised a fabulous £ 928.75. we had balloons and a children’s …

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Volunteers celebrated at Guide Dogs NI awards

Community, News / By Bloom Admin

The amazing efforts of local volunteers have been recognised at a special awards ceremony hosted by Guide Dogs NI. Guide Dogs’ vision is a society in which people who are blind and partially-sighted enjoy the same freedom of movement as everyone else. The charity really values the contribution and commitment of all their volunteers, including …

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It’s ‘Summer Season’ at the North Down Craft Collective

Community, Days/Nights Out / By Bloom Admin

‘Come rain or shine there is something about the beaches in Northern Ireland that we all love! From dog walking and horse riding to swimming, surfing, sunbathing and sandcastle making, we are so lucky that we are never too far away from the seaside. The theme for our June market is ‘Summer Season’ so let …

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Titanic Hotel wins prestigious RICS award

Community, News / By Bloom Admin

The Titanic Hotel has been announced as the winner of the Tourism and Leisure category of the RICS Awards 2018, Northern Ireland, for bringing a unique piece of Belfast’s history into contemporary life. The annual awards, run by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, recognise exemplary built projects, and the teams behind them, that contribute …

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Guide Dogs NI on top of the world!

Community, Health & Wellness / By Bloom Admin

Last October a soft toy ‘guide dog’, affectionately named Hillary after mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, accompanied an intrepid team of volunteers from Guide Dogs NI to Everest base camp. The gruelling challenge tested the ‘Hillary’s Hikers’ to the limit but the exhaustion, blisters and altitude sickness were all forgotten when the initial fundraising target of …

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‘Outstanding’ Result for Crawfordburn Playgroup

Community, Schools & Education / By Bloom Admin

It has been one of the most popular pre-schools in North Down for over twenty years, and today, Crawfordsburn Playgroup has been given a brand-new name and a new ‘Outstanding’ inspection report results for the third consecutive time. The newly branded Playgroup will be known as Ballygilbert Pre-School from September 2018 to reflect the quality …

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SHS Group ‘Give and Gain’ Through Volunteering Challenges

Business, Community / By Bloom Admin

The SHS Group once again took part in Business in the Community’s national ‘Give & Gain’ initiative. Announcing a whole week of fundraising activities within the Group, staff took time out to volunteer with local groups. Providing over 300 hours of volunteering support for worthwhile causes, activities took place from 14 to 18 May 2018. …

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Thanks, a Latte!

Community, News / By Bloom Admin

Generous staff and shoppers raise almost £60K during charity coffee morning for local children’s cancer charity EUROSPAR and ViVOXTRA staff and shoppers from across Northern Ireland have raised almost £60,000 for Cancer Fund for Children during the stores’ annual coffee morning held recently. The enormous amount surpasses what was raised last year by over £20,000. …

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OVER 100 LOCAL PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND/OR AUTISM RECOGNISED FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS AT AWARDS CEREMONY IN BELFAST

Business, Community / By Bloom Admin

Over 100 local people with learning disabilities and/or autism had their achievements recognised at the recent Annual Orchardville Awards Ceremony 2018 at Titanic Belfast (9 May 2018). Joshua Miller (19) from East Belfast was the winner of the Joanna Tuffy Endeavour Award. This award recognises an Orchardville service user who has shown true endeavour in …

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