Urban Villages Focus Magazine ISSUE 9

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Contents

4 CONNECTING COMMUNITIES #TogetherApart

7 LOCAL STORIES Impacting Lives

22 CAPITAL

28 WHAT’S ON

29 NEWS

INVESTMENT Update: Building work on pause due to COVID-19

COVID-19 Response Keeping you up to date

Area Based Plans What’s been happening

across Urban Village areas

NOTE: All photos in this edition were taken before the COVID-19 crisis emerged.

About Us

To foster positive community identities

The Urban Villages Initiative is a headline action of the Together: Building a United Community (T:BUC) Strategy. It is designed to improve good relations outcomes and develop thriving places. The Urban Villages Initiative is shaped and delivered in partnership with local communities and has three core aims:

The Urban Villages Initiative is continuing to invest in the five areas by supporting organisations in the development of projects aimed at improving the lives of people in these areas. For more information contact: info@urbanvillagesni.org

To build community capacity

To improve the physical environment

Front Cover: Junior Ministers Gordon Lyons and Declan Kearney with Lord Mayor Daniel Baker, representatives from The Executive Office, Dept. for Communities, pupils and teachers from St Colm’s High School, and Colin Neighbourhood Partnership at the sod cutting ceremony for the new park in Colin.

Urban Villages Initiative | Focus Magazine Issue 9