Posted on Tuesday 24 June 2014
One of our volunteers, Cecil Taylor, is climbing Ireland’s highest peak, Carrauntoohil, to raise funds for Positive Futures.
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Posted on Tuesday 24 June 2014
We’ve launched our “What About Me?” Welcome Award and what better way to do so than by having the Mayor of North Down and the Lord Mayor of Belfast sign our anti–discriminatory pledge!
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Posted on Thursday 19 June 2014
Carers from our Better Futures Project will be taking part in a “Planning for the Future” Mental Health and Learning Disability Conference which will be hosted by the Bamford Monitoring Group on 26 June.
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Posted on Thursday 19 June 2014
Our new Wheatfield Short Break Service in North Belfast has been officially launched by the Health Minister, Edwin Poots, at a ceremony in Belfast Castle.
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Posted on Tuesday 17 June 2014
It’s finally here! The official handover of the building to Positive Futures!
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Posted on Tuesday 17 June 2014
Our Families Matter Shared Lives Service recently joined with Shared Lives Plus to host a family fun day for the families and carers involved in the Service and other “shared lives” carers across Northern Ireland.
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Posted on Thursday 05 June 2014
Our Better Together Project recently hosted a celebration event to mark the end of our Stay Safe programme which was attended by young adults supported by the Project and funded by the District Policing and Community Safety Partnership.
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Posted on Monday 02 June 2014
This week is Volunteers’ Week and what a special week it is! Not only is it the one week of the year where the focus is all about volunteers but it’s also the 30th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week! What better way to mark this week than to hear from our volunteers themselves and from the people who benefit from their hard work – it sure reads as 30 great reasons to get involved in volunteering!
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Posted on Thursday 22 May 2014
We have received further funding from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency to develop a fully accessible community garden at Willowbridge School in Enniskillen. The community garden is situated next to the sensory garden which was developed and installed in November 2013 in partnership with The Organic Centre, Rossinver.
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Posted on Tuesday 20 May 2014
Belfast’s Lord Mayor Mairtin O’Mulleoir has lent his support to our “What About Me?” campaign has he hosted a reception to hear the story of 23 year–old Georgina Brodrick, who has a learning disability and has suffered a series of strokes resulting in limited functioning down the right side of her body.
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