Increasing Community Services

Increase community services by regenerating and refurbishing existing facilities and providing play facilities and environmental improvements.

The strategic objectives of the Social Investment Fund are:

The strategic objectives of the Social Investment Fund are to:

Pathways to Employment: Build Pathways to Employment by tackling educational under achievement and barriers to employment; tackling skills deficits and promoting jobs brokerage, widening access to the labour market, promoting business start-up and increasing sustainability through social enterprise.
Reducing Deprivation: Tackle the systemic issues linked to deprivation including poor mental and physical health (suicide and self-harm), young mothers, substance abuse, community safety, children and young people at risk and enhancing community capacity, confidence and partnership working to reduce deprivation.
Increasing Community Services: Increase community services by regenerating and refurbishing existing facilities and providing play facilities and environmental improvements.
Addressing Dereliction: Address dereliction and promoting investment in the physical regeneration of deprived communities.

SIF provided funding to 46 capital projects which delivered improvements to 106 premises. In making improvements to these capital builds, as well as providing a vital community hub to increase the level of community services being delivered, the investment is also contributing towards regenerating areas and tackling dereliction to make neighbourhoods more appealing. All 46 capital projects (106 premises) with investment of £46.2 million have completed construction and are operational.

Local people in disadvantaged communities are now directly benefiting from the opportunities being provided from the Fund. Over 377,000 people have availed of the community services on offer in SIF operational capital builds.

The majority of projects contribute to more than one of the above objectives.

There are 46 completed projects whose main focus was to address the Increasing Community Services objective. Click on the links below to view specific information relating to the completed projects:

Project Name	Zone	Category
Impact Training	Belfast West	Capital
Iontaobhas na Gaelscolaiochta (InaG)	Belfast West	Capital
St Comgall's	Belfast West	Capital
Argyle Business Centre	Belfast West	Capital
Sandy Row Resource Centre	Belfast South	Capital
Surestart Taughmonagh	Belfast South	Capital
Surestart Belvoir & Milltown	Belfast South	Capital
Taughmonagh Healthy Business	Belfast South	Capital
Mornington	Belfast South	Capital
St Simon’s Hall - part of Increasing Community Services cluster project	Belfast South	Capital
Templemore Avenue	Belfast East	Capital
Short Strand Community Centre	Belfast East	Capital
Hanwood Centre- part of Increasing Community Services cluster project	Belfast East	Capital
Oak Partnership Clarawood	Belfast East	Capital
Greenway	Belfast East	Capital
Bryson Street	Belfast East	Capital
Best Of the East	Belfast East	Capital
Walkway - part of Increasing Community Services cluster project	Belfast East	Capital
Childcare & Family Support Ashton	Belfast North	Capital
Crusaders	Belfast North	Capital
St Enda’s	Belfast North	Capital
Joanmount Methodist Church (part of Increasing Community Services cluster project)	Belfast North	Capital
PIPS - part of Increasing Community Services cluster project	Belfast North	Capital
Arts for All - part of Increasing Community Services cluster project	Belfast North	Capital
Ionad na Fuiseoige – Twinbrook Family Centre	South Eastern	Capital
Laganview Enterprise Centre	South Eastern	Capital
West Lisburn Community Centre	South Eastern	Capital
Cloona House	South Eastern	Capital
Castlewellan	South Eastern	Capital
Community Houses	South Eastern	Capital
Ballyhornan - part of Community Operated Sports project	South Eastern	Capital
New Directions – Kilcluney & Lurgan YMCA	Southern	Capital
Armagh Harps	Southern	Capital
Sustaining the Infrastructure (cluster project)	Southern	Capital
Community Capacity Hubs	Northern	Capital
Causeway Rural And Urban Network (CRUN)	Northern	Capital
Fermanagh House	Western	Capital
Hall Together Now	Western	Capital
Capital Health and Wellbeing - Youth Sport Omagh	Western	Capital
Community Premises Support	Western	Capital
COTHU – St Canice’s Hall	Western	Capital
COTHU – St Patrick’s Hall	Western	Capital
Capital Health and Wellbeing – St Mary’s GAC, Banagher	Western	Capital
Invest in Play	Derry/Londonderry	Capital
Pitches	Derry/Londonderry	Capital

The Social Investment Fund produced a number of short films on the outcomes achieved by the SIF projects. To view the film that focuses on the SIF capital projects supported by the Social Investment Fund please access the link below.

For more information on all SIF projects please access on the link below:

Social Investment Fund projects

The strategic objectives of the Social Investment Fund are:

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