North Belfast PartnershipID: 5424

North Belfast Partnership was established in 1997 under the Making Belfast Work Initiative along with four other Partnerships operating in other parts of the city.

The role of North Belfast Partnership is to promote social and economic regeneration throughout the north of the city and to address the causes of deprivation that disadvantage many local people and the communities in which they live.

Our strategic mission is:

"North Belfast Partnership will bring people and government together to make North Belfast a place that people and communities will want to live and work in."

As a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity the Partnership has a Board membership of 24 representatives from across the local community and voluntary, public, private, social partner and political sectoral interests. A central feature of the Partnership's work is to facilitate stakeholder engagement to create effective collaboration which can influence how public policy and strategic resources are used to respond to local needs.

To fulfil its strategic mission, the Partnership has identified five key regeneration strands as the focus of its development work, across a range of socio-economic themes. These thematic areas are:

• Community Relations
• Community Development
• Social Development
• Economic Development
• Physical and Social Resources.

The Partnership's staff, working closely with stakeholders in the regeneration process, has created a series of effective development strategies to address some of the socio-economic conditions that impact on North Belfast. A few examples of successful partnerships in practice include the Partnership's work on the Urban II Programme, its employability initiatives, and a range of important interventions around health and well-being and local housing and the environment. The Partnership continues with its development work on community regeneration issues and will encompass aspects of this work within the Government's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy led by the Department for Social Development.