NBIN Launch Social Return on Investment Report

The North Belfast Interface Network will launch its Social Return on Investment report carried out by Karl Leathem (Lodestar) at 12.15pm on Wednesday the 29th April at Groundwork on Duncairn Gardens.

This report, the first of its kind to evaluate community relations activity using this method, has been designed to monetise key elements of the work of the North Belfast Interface Network.

Bairbre de Brun MEP will formally launch the report and Karl Leathem, author of the report will discuss the merits of Social Return on Investment methodology and some of the difficulties encountered in attempting to quantify community relations activity using this method.

“Moving On” NBIN discussions with North Belfast Residents on living with interface walls

Throughout 2008; The North Belfast Interface Network facilitated a series of discussion groups, made up from local community activists and residents living on or at interfaces in North Belfast to discuss living with interface walls ten years after the “Good Friday Agreement”. The discussion was designed to generate a debate on peoples feeling toward the walls and whether or not the time was right to begin to look at the possibility of their removal or transformation.The conversation was not a proposal to remove the walls; it was merely an attempt to begin a process to gauge a true reflection of the varied opinion of the community toward the continued existence of the walls.