Hall Together Now
SIF provided funding of over £880,000 for the refurbishment and extension of St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall to provide enhanced community services.
Project Name: | Hall Together Now |
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Zone: | Western |
Category: | Capital |
Social Investment Fund Outcome: | Increasing Community Services |
Status: | Operational – Construction Complete |
Funding awarded: | £880,993 |
About the Project:
The project involved the upgrade and extension of St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall in Enniskillen to facilitate increased community activities. The capital works were necessary to bring the building up to a more modern fit for purpose standard and to comply with health and safety and DDA requirements and also improved car parking arrangements. The increased and improved floor space have provided an opportunity to increase outreach within communities across Fermanagh.
Benefits include an enhanced streetscape in an important thoroughfare and urban renewal area in Enniskillen, provision of additional facilities and space, reduction in heating costs with consequent environmental benefits, better accommodation which will attract more organisations to use the venue, opportunities to cater for a very wide range of hospitality needs and provision of a wide range of community programmes.
Many of the activities focus on supporting young people to fulfil their full potential by developing skills such as self-confidence and team working which are essential prerequisites to ensure successful pathways to employment. The hall has continued to support initiatives that will have a positive long-term impact on tackling issues of systemic deprivation including educational attainment, unemployment, poor health and social exclusion.
Progress to date:
This project has been completed construction and is operational. The improved facilities, in a key central venue within the Neighbourhood Renewal, have enabled the delivery of an increased range of vital outreach programmes helping to address those issues being specially targeted under the Social Investment Fund namely pathways to employment, increasing community services and addressing dereliction. This project has also contributed to social and community development and, thereby, has helped to improve the conditions of life for the people in the SIF Western zone including county Fermanagh and the immediate hinterland.
Impacts:
Monitoring and evaluation of all Social Investment Fund projects is carried out using “Outcomes Based Accountability” (OBA). Where SIF has funded capital works, the project provides quarterly “post-capital” data for a period of 3 years which details the positive impacts enabled by the capital works undertaken. The Hall Together Now project has completed its 3 years of post-capital monitoring. Below are the final capital and post capital infographics which highlight the key impacts of the project.
