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December 17, 2019

Reflections on 40: Thank you for a great milestone year!

December 17, 2019/ Healy King
Reflections on 40: Thank you for a great milestone year!

Colm McDaid pens the final blog in our 40th Anniversary Series “Looking Back to Look Forward.” Thanks for a great year everyone!

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December 17, 2019/ Healy King/ Comment
From the desk of the CEO, 40th Anniversary Series
#40YearsSC, #SC40, thank you
October 10, 2019

Interview with Michael Dallat: Lessons from Doury Road

October 10, 2019/ Healy King
Interview with Michael Dallat: Lessons from Doury Road

Michael Dallat was there at the very beginning of the work that has grown into the current day Supporting Communities. We asked him to tell us about his experience working in the Doury Road community back in 1979.

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October 10, 2019/ Healy King/ Comment
40th Anniversary Series
#40YearsSC, #SC40, Doury Road
September 19, 2019

Lesley Baird: A 'Sisterhood' of Tenant Participation

September 19, 2019/ Healy King
Lesley Baird: A 'Sisterhood' of Tenant Participation

Lesley Baird is the Chief Executive at Tenant Participation Advisory Service Scotland (TPAS) and has been a great friend to Supporting Communities over the years. Read her guest blog in celebration of our 40th anniversary.

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September 19, 2019/ Healy King/ Comment
Guest blogger, 40th Anniversary Series
#40YearsSC, #SC40, TPAS
July 31, 2019

Staff Looks Back: Carolyn Agnew

July 31, 2019/ Healy King
Staff Looks Back: Carolyn Agnew

We asked former staff members to tell us some of their favourite memories from their time working with us. Carolyn Agnew, now with the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, shared her walk down memory lane and how Supporting Communities shaped her career.

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July 31, 2019/ Healy King/ Comment
40th Anniversary Series
#40YearsSC, #SC40
June 26, 2019

Estates Action Project & Tenant Participation Advisory Project: A Merger (1991)

June 26, 2019/ Healy King
Estates Action Project & Tenant Participation Advisory Project: A Merger (1991)

This month’s blog comes from Seamus McAleavey, Chief Executive at NICVA. Seamus writes about his memories of the 1991 merger that created NITAP, a key event in Supporting Communities’ history.

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June 26, 2019/ Healy King/ Comment
40th Anniversary Series, Guest blogger
NICVA, mergers, throwback, #SC40, #40YearsSC
May 16, 2019

Getting Involved and Making a Difference: A Community Champion Looks Back

May 16, 2019/ Healy King
Getting Involved and Making a Difference: A Community Champion Looks Back

We sat down with Bernie Burns, a long-time resident and very active member of the Brownlow community in Craigavon to learn more about the estate and how it has changed over the years as a result of community participation for Supporting Communities’ continuing 40th Anniversary Blog series.

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May 16, 2019/ Healy King/ Comment
40th Anniversary Series
Drumellan, #SC40
April 05, 2019

A Proud Professor Shares His Supporting Communities Story

April 05, 2019/ Healy King
A Proud Professor Shares His Supporting Communities Story

“It is important to remember that building houses is important but it is the building of lives around housing that is crucial. The work that Supporting Communities has done over the years is up there with the best.”

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April 05, 2019/ Healy King/ Comment
40th Anniversary Series
Paddy Gray, Tenant Participation, #SC40
March 13, 2019

Personal & Professional: A Tale of Two Anniversaries

March 13, 2019/ Healy King
Personal & Professional: A Tale of Two Anniversaries

Lorraine Campbell, our Chairperson, contributes this account of how her own personal and professional story has intertwined with the development of Supporting Communities over the past 40 years. Here’s to forty more years all around!

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March 13, 2019/ Healy King/ Comment
40th Anniversary Series
tenant participation, #SC40
February 01, 2019

25 Years and My Life is Still…All about the People!

February 01, 2019/ SCNI Website
25 Years and My Life is Still…All about the People!

Sheenagh McNally kicks off our 40th Anniversary blog series with some personal reflections on her own 25 year career with Supporting Communities.

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February 01, 2019/ SCNI Website/ Comment
40th Anniversary Series
tenant participation, #SC40
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Meet the New ONSIDE Evolution Team!
August 12, 2026
Meet the New ONSIDE Evolution Team!
August 12, 2026

The ONSIDE Evolution Project is set to launch next month, and we are so excited that we thought we’d introduce our training team in advance! Meet the team hard at work preparing materials to make technology more accessible and empower people to use digital tools with greater confidence.

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August 12, 2026
Radius Housing Achieves Platinum-Level Tenant Participation Accreditation
July 28, 2026
Radius Housing Achieves Platinum-Level Tenant Participation Accreditation
July 28, 2026

Radius Housing has been awarded Supporting Communities' Platinum-level Tenant Participation Accreditation, the highest of the four accreditation levels, in recognition of sector-leading quality in its tenant engagement practices.

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July 28, 2026
Choice Housing becomes the first social housing provider to achieve Platinum Tenant Participation Accreditation
July 21, 2026
Choice Housing becomes the first social housing provider to achieve Platinum Tenant Participation Accreditation
July 21, 2026

Choice Housing has become the first social housing provider in Northern Ireland to achieve Platinum Accreditation under Supporting Communities’ Tenant Participation (TP) Accreditation Framework, setting a new benchmark for tenant engagement across the sector.

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July 21, 2026
Neighbours Come Together to Grow a Brighter Future in Strabane
July 6, 2026
Neighbours Come Together to Grow a Brighter Future in Strabane
July 6, 2026

A new community growing space is proving to be exactly what this Strabane community needed: a place to connect, to learn, and to grow together.

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July 6, 2026
A Royal Spotlight on Community Spirit: How The Warehouse Newtownards is Changing Lives
June 24, 2026
A Royal Spotlight on Community Spirit: How The Warehouse Newtownards is Changing Lives
June 24, 2026

The team at The Warehouse in Newtownards looks back at their exciting visit from the King and Queen last month. We asked them to tell us what’s been happening since and if the royal visit left a lasting impact.

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June 24, 2026

Events

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September Funding Clinic Sessions (Online)
Sep 9
September 9, 2026
September Funding Clinic Sessions (Online)
September 9, 2026

Book an online session with our Funding and Social Value Officer for some one-to-one funding support.

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September 9, 2026
Writing Successful Funding Applications (Online Session)
Sep 10
September 10, 2026
Writing Successful Funding Applications (Online Session)
September 10, 2026

The aim of this session is to help participants improve their skills and knowledge when planning and completing a funding application.

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September 10, 2026
Mid & East Antrim Area HCN Roadshow
Sep 22
September 22, 2026
Mid & East Antrim Area HCN Roadshow
September 22, 2026

Join us at a special roadshow event for Mid & East Antrim Area HCN members!

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September 22, 2026
Understanding 'Social Value'? (Online Session)
Oct 8
October 8, 2026
Understanding 'Social Value'? (Online Session)
October 8, 2026

This short online session will help you get a better understanding of what we mean when we talk about ‘Social Value’ and ‘Impact Measurement’.

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October 8, 2026
Writing Successful Funding Applications (Online Session)
Nov 17
November 17, 2026
Writing Successful Funding Applications (Online Session)
November 17, 2026

The aim of this session is to help participants improve their skills and knowledge when planning and completing a funding application.

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November 17, 2026
Understanding 'Social Value'? (Online Session)
Dec 3
December 3, 2026
Understanding 'Social Value'? (Online Session)
December 3, 2026

This short online session will help you get a better understanding of what we mean when we talk about ‘Social Value’ and ‘Impact Measurement’.

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December 3, 2026
New Events Coming Soon
Dec 30
December 30, 2026
New Events Coming Soon
December 30, 2026

We’re working on new events. Check back soon to see what’s coming up!

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December 30, 2026
 
 

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