David Boyd - Belfast Child CIC Belfast Child C.I.C provides free mentored health & well-being sports related training as a means of an 'Off the Streets Programme' for young people in Belfast. Through sports academies aiming to build, stronger, safer and healthier communities that offer our young people, regardless of background and ability the opportunity to participate in healthy activities. Sports programmes will not only offer health and fitness benefits but also focus on raising aspirati...
Jan 18, 2023•18 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Bremar’s is an education and training company who's vision is a society where the provision of education, training and support is accessible to all in a safe, respectful and supportive environment. They offer a wide variety of training programmes, counselling and consultancy services www.bremartraining.com
Jan 11, 2023•25 min•Season 5Ep. 5
ArtSpace is a community interest company offering multisensory environment hire to children/young adults/adults with additional support needs led by Nurse specialists. The organisation's day opportunities support people with learning, physical and sensory disabilities to develop their skills and independence in a supportive, nurturing environment. Hear more from Founder & Managing Director, Martina Bell who gets us up to speed on this wonderful community led organsaiton.
Dec 13, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 4
The Bridge Vocational Training Unit has been operational in Antrim town since 1988 and moved into new, purpose built premises in 2004. The Unit is committed to providing high quality vocational training opportunities to adults with learning disabilities aged 18+ years and currently offers accredited courses which are tailored to suit the ability and needs of each individual trainee in 3 key areas encompassing Catering; Retail and Horticulture/Propagation. Jacqui joins Cate on the podcast to shar...
Dec 07, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 3
WOMEN'STEC are Northern Ireland's largest quality provider of training for women in non-traditional skills. Their mission is to allow women the time and space to develop their confidence, their self-efficacy and their wellbeing so that they can take on new challenges, in their personal lives, their education and their careers.
Nov 29, 2022•22 min•Season 5Ep. 2
The Rink is home to Northern Ireland's largest roller arena and is operated by local social enterprise, Powered by Sport. Stephen Lynch, CEO tell us more about their activities and ongoing mission to bring people from all backgrounds, religions and ethnicity together through the sport. Find out more.
Nov 22, 2022•23 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Waymaker is a Community Interest Company passionate about providing high-quality therapeutic play and creative arts therapy for children, specialised support for parents, and professional training. They believe all children have the right to access highly trained therapy services regardless of their circumstances. Waymaker offer a tiered approach to their service's cost to ensure all families can access vital support for their children. Eileen Russell, founder of Waymaker joins Cate on the #WISE...
Nov 08, 2022•15 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Triangle's vision is to live better lives together. Triangle Housing Association is a registered Housing Association with the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. They provide supported accommodation, family housing and specialised care and support services and supported employment programmes for tenants across Northern Ireland. Triangle is a progressive service provider, promoting social inclusion through a range of strategic partnerships. Brendan Clarke, Enterprise Coordinator joins...
Nov 02, 2022•20 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Parent Action is a human rights based organisation, which enables and empowers parent carers of children and adults with disabilities/lifelong health conditions, to advocate for their child’s rights in vital public services. They have created a peer advocacy service to help parents express their views on behalf of their child, who often has difficulty communicating, because of his/her additional needs. These views reflect the lived experience of parent carers and give voice to children and adult...
Oct 25, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Hear from Kerry McWilliams, Founder of Lightwork NI, a social enterprise on a mission to give everyone the knowledge, tools and skills to develop resilience and cope with the emotions which arise from difficult life circumstances. At Lightwork NI, they teach emotional regulation strategies alongside techniques from positive psychology and life coaching. They aim to give people the practical tools which can help them feel better, so they make better choices. Have a listen and find out more about ...
Oct 18, 2022•28 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Engage Executive Talent is a specialised executive recruitment service comprising three strands: Permanent Executive Recruitment, Interim Executive Recruitment and Board Recruitment. It was developed by CO3 and launched in September 2019 and is now one of the top recruitment agencies within the third sector in Northern Ireland for appointments to Chief Executive, Senior Management, as well as Board positions. Their Director, Patrick Minne tell us more in episode 4 of the #WISE Podcast Season 4. ...
Sep 27, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 4
East Belfast Mission is working on the "transformation of the East Belfast community." They run a number of projects to help everyone in the community including Hosford - a homelessness support service, Stepping Stone - an employability project and many others. Their Funraising Regulator, Lianne Mulholland shares more about what they do within the social economy in N. Ireland. Other social enterprise arms of the organisation includes: refresh cafe and meals on wheels service at Skainos Square; B...
Sep 20, 2022•15 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Jonathan McAlpin, Managing Director of East Belfast Enterprises joins the podcast to tell us more about their Local Enterprise Agency for East Belfast and how it is the starting point for anyone wishing to start a business or improve and grow their current business. The mission of EBE is to “To inspire and nurture entrepreneurs to make a positive difference in East Belfast”. They do this by providing Office Accommodation Premises in their City East Building designed with small businesses in mind...
Sep 14, 2022•18 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Season 4 | Episode 1 Hear from Rachel Doherty, Managing Director from 4C UR Future who chats about the work they do to help young people make more empowered career choices. About 4C UR Future 4C UR Future is an industry-led social enterprise. They exist to involve, inform, and inspire young people to help them make more empowered education and career choices. They deliver 4C UR Future LIVE careers inspiration events across Northern Ireland for Year 9 pupils and have created Northern Ireland's fi...
Sep 07, 2022•20 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Boom Studios is a creative hub, a social enterprise that provides 25 vibrant workspaces for local creatives, a year round creative programme and a range of artistic outreach services for the local community, local businesses and events. It was inspired by and established by 3 local creatives and their individual experience at Project 24, Bangor. Boom! Studios was established in December 2014. A small group of local creative practitioners wished to create a vibrant workspace where they could deve...
Mar 16, 2022•21 min•Season 3Ep. 10
'To enable Women and Children to grow to ensure their voices are heard and that they take their rightful place in a just and equal society.' We have evolved from a strong self-help ethos and operate within a Community Development context. Our Centre has been acknowledged as a valuable asset within the community and has developed a diverse range of services within the Colin Neighbourhood. We wish to continue to provide these services to women and children for many many years to come. Services: Dr...
Mar 09, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 9
At Connswater Homes we believe that a home is a building block to a better life; it impacts on health, education and sustains relationships and families. We want to keep people in their homes by offering choice, affordability and desirability. The office phone number is 028 9065 6155 and text phone 07569 155199 (remember if you are texting to give us your name and address so that we know who we are dealing with). If you wish to email, our email address is housing@connswater.org.uk...
Mar 02, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 8
AMH Works provides workplace mental and emotional well-being consultancy supported by a range of specialised employee programmes, proven to improve workplace well-being across organisations. Action Mental Health have been providing mental health recovery, resilience, counselling and employment services across Northern Ireland since 1963. The AMH Works team are specialists in mental health and emotional well-being training and consultancy, working with some of NI’s and the UK’s leading employers ...
Feb 23, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 7
TIDAL , is a successful Community group based in Toome. Over the last 20 years we have provided much needed amenities and services for the local community, including the creation of employment opportunities. We have successfully connected a diverse community not only from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds, but, also residents from the Indian, Polish and Lithuanian nationalities and brought generations together and well as connecting our detached youth with those living within Toome....
Feb 16, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 6
At The Hummingbird Project we are a bit unusual, a bit quirky, a bit different from the norm. We are disruptors, boundary pushers, challenging the norms in traditional mental health service provision and leading the charge for doing things differently. Our lived experience of having suffered mental ill health in addition to our professional training means we are trauma informed, passionate and authentic. There is no them and us. We leave the stigma at the door and work alongside our clients to d...
Feb 09, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 5
The NOW Group provide a range of services that support people with learning difficulties and autism to realise their full potential "Our services We provide a range of services that support people with learning difficulties and autism to realise their full potential and change their lives for the better. Our services focus on supporting people into employment, training, transition and volunteering. We also offer a family service to support new and expectant parents with a learning difficulty or ...
Feb 02, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Orchardville , a registered charity and social enterprise, is committed to changing the lives of people with learning disability and autism. They believe that with the right support, any individual with a learning disability or autism can reach their full potential and achieve their employment aspirations. Providing services in the Belfast, South Eastern and Western Health & Social Care Trust areas, they support people with learning disability and/or autism aged 16-65 through a range of indi...
Jan 26, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 3
The Ortus Group is a Belfast based Enterprise Agency providing unique business support programmes, affordable, high-quality commercial property and a wide range of complementary services to a diverse range of businesses. We specialise in working with all entrepreneurs from start-ups to long-established enterprises across all business sectors throughout Northern Ireland. Ortus has a strong social ethos focused on social regeneration showcased through the work they do locally. The Ortus Group is a...
Jan 19, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Usel is Northern Ireland’s largest supporter of people with disabilities or health conditions into employment and operates a social enterprise business model. They exist solely to help people with disabilities and health-related conditions move into and sustain employment. Every year they employ, support and train over 1200 people with disabilities or health conditions across Northern Ireland. Their social enterprises are: Ability Cafe U Shred NI USEL Recycling Solutions Smartpac Manufacturing S...
Jan 12, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 1
VIable Corporate Services provide back-office services in Bookkeeping, HR, and Marketing. We exist to change business, and change lives, with 100% of our profits supporting young people in care and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Across our 3 functional departments, we work in collaboration with your people to provide high-quality professional services. We’re people-focused, and we like to maintain an equal balance of approachability and professionalism in all that we do. We pride ourselve...
Nov 17, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 9
At Inspire we work together with people living with mental ill health, intellectual disability, autism and addictions to ensure they live with dignity and realise their full potential. To achieve this we want to develop a culture of compassion, creating a society free from stigma that focuses on people and their abilities. We deliver mental health, learning/intellectual disability, autism, addiction, workplace and student wellbeing services across the island of Ireland. We are Inclusive: we put ...
Nov 10, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 8
We are a charity and social enterprise that offers practical support for individuals and families, helping them to get through and get ahead. Our Family Support Service provides practical and therapeutic support and a range of training programmes for parents and children. As coordinator of the Newry and Mourne Family Support Hub, we help find solutions for families facing physical and mental health problems, family breakdown, parenting difficulties, financial problems and social and rural isolat...
Nov 03, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 7
After four years of operating in the private tuition industry, we had grown increasingly uncomfortable with the disparity that exists between children of different socioeconomic backgrounds in their access to educational support. One in five children in Northern Ireland lives in poverty, and less than 50% of children entitled to free school meals leave school with at least five good GCSE grades. We realised that operating as a private business did not align with our social values or research bac...
Oct 27, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Ever think you can’t make a difference by yourself? That one person can’t change the world? Well, you CAN ! “Enhancing Lives…Creating Change” Every single one of our projects was born from the idea of just one person, and have flourished from there to how we deliver them now. We want people with learning disabilities, Autism and mental health issues to be able to realise their potential in work, social and community activities – in every aspect of their lives. This aim keeps us grounded and focu...
Oct 20, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 5
MUGSHOTS is an award winning business like no other - specialising in breaking the re-offending cycle Mugshots equips young offenders with the skills, support and resources to compete more effectively for employment. Mugshots has a proven record of rehabilitation that offers an innovative solution to integrate a target group often considered furthest from the labour market. For five years Mugshots has provided a unique, hands-on employment experience based inside Hydebank Young Offenders Prison ...
Oct 13, 2021•19 min•Season 2Ep. 4
