Celebrating Success: SC Staff and Board Achieve Recognition

Supporting Communities has had many good things to shout about in the past few months! Organisations are made up of people, and we couldn’t be prouder of ours. We’d like to highlight a few of our staff and board members whose work has been recognised this summer.

Lorraine displays her CO3 Award

Lorraine Campbell, our Chair, is having a banner year. In March, she was named Highly Commended Trustee of the Year at the CO3 Leadership Awards, a hotly contested category! We were so pleased to get to celebrate with her at the Europa Hotel in Belfast.

Then in June, as part of the Queen’s Jubilee birthday honors, Lorraine was awarded an MBE for services to the community in Northern Ireland. We’re thrilled for her and so proud of her work, not just with Supporting Communities, but with many housing providers and charities in Northern Ireland working to build engaged, confident, sustainable, and inclusive communities.

Karla and Aidan from the training team at the OCNNI awards

Also, in June, our training team was awarded a commendation at the OCN NI awards for ‘Advancing Learning through Innovation’ for their work in adapting our training courses to an online service during the pandemic.

Our training team has worked closely with OCN NI to assist in the development of ‘Ambition’, their new online platform that streamlines the delivery of our accredited courses, providing a complete learner experience, including virtual classrooms, online assessments, tutor feedback, and even a digital certificate when the course is completed.

We’re delighted that the sector has recognised their hard work and terrific success with this transformation.

Finally, our Head of Corporate Services, Sheenagh McNally, was Highly Commended at the Women In Housing awards at the end of June.

We already knew she was a winner when we nominated her in the Professional of the Year category, so we're very pleased to see her recognised on the national stage for her life-long dedication to tenant participation and community engagement in social housing.

Well done, Sheenagh!