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Northern Ireland Evaluation

Interviews with groups that received Fair Share Trust funding in Northern Ireland, particularly those in Derry who received the final tranche of additional funding that went specifically towards sustainability work.

Stockton Shorts 5 - Channel Flicking

Tilery Residents Association was awarded £5,000 from Fair Share Trust to work with young people to develop a DVD. The film project named ‘Stockton Shorts’ focussed on young people expressing their views of the youth provision, facilities and services available to them in the local area.
This is one of the five short films made by young people from Stockton-on-Tees.

Stockton Shorts 4 - The Cave

Tilery Residents Association was awarded £5,000 from Fair Share Trust to work with young people to develop a DVD. The film project named ‘Stockton Shorts’ focussed on young people expressing their views of the youth provision, facilities and services available to them in the local area.
This is one of the five short films made by young people from Stockton-on-Tees.

Stockton Shorts 3 -  Pimp My Shed

Tilery Residents Association was awarded £5,000 from Fair Share Trust to work with young people to develop a DVD. The film project named ‘Stockton Shorts’ focussed on young people expressing their views of the youth provision, facilities and services available to them in the local area.
This is one of the five short films made by young people from Stockton-on-Tees.

Stockton Shorts 2 - Chill Zone

Tilery Residents Association was awarded £5,000 from Fair Share Trust to work with young people to develop a DVD. The film project named ‘Stockton Shorts’ focussed on young people expressing their views of the youth provision, facilities and services available to them in the local area.

Stockton Shorts 1 - Men in Black Hoodies

Tilery Residents Association was awarded £5,000 from Fair Share Trust to work with young people to develop a DVD. The film project named ‘Stockton Shorts’ focussed on young people expressing their views of the youth provision, facilities and services available to them in the local area.

Reeltime Music 2

Reeltime Music - young people!

Reeltime Music

Reeltime Music were awarded a Fair Share Trust grant of £36,818 to develop a music tutor project in Brannock, North Lanarkshire. The project has been hugely successful, training twice as many young people as originally planned. These trained youth music tutors deliver community music workshops in partnership with local agencies and have produced this DVD to celebrate and showcase their work.

Young Voices from the Villages (Part 1)

A group of young people show us some of the issues facing them in rural North Lanarkshire.

Young Voices from the Villages (Part 2)

In the second section, the young people explore their rights, and how these are related to those of adults.

Young Voices from the Villages (Part 3)

In this final section, the young people explore some of the issues in greater depth, and interview workers including police and youth workers.

Bedfordshire & Luton vox pops

Two Panel members from Bedfordshire and Luton talk about their experience of working with the Fair Share Trust programme.

Seeds of Hope, Solihull

The first podcast from Birmingham & the Black Country Community Foundation shone the spotlight on 'Seeds of Hope', a FST funded project working with elderly people in Solihull.

Beacon Prize Ceremony

In November 2010, CFN hosted the prestigious Beacon Fellowship Awards in the Goldsmiths Hall in London. Click below for a short film showing the presentations and extracts from some of the speakers.

FST was proud to support The Beacon Prize 2010 because of the similarities between their two objectives: Beacon to showcase and promote philanthropy particularly at grassroots level; and FST to actively encourage and support communities to make change happen.

Mark Nicholls presented an award on behalf of FST, to Angus Macdonald OBE for the Beacon Prize for New Initiatives.

Ballymena Moneysense

A new financial learning fund, worth €150,000, is being provided for YouthBanks as part of Ulster Bank’s initiative, helping young people to be more confident about managing money and dealing with financial organisations.

In partnership with the Irish Youth Foundation, the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland and The Community Foundation for Ireland, the Bank has supported the development of the YouthBank movement in Ireland over the past three years, enabling hundreds of young people north and south to become active citizens as they assess and award grants for youth-led projects in their local communities. To find out more, see their website http://www.youthbank.org/Forum.html or watch the film below to see what participants thought of the project.

The Dove Project, Bournemouth

A short film made by beneficiaries of the Fair Share Trust funded Dove Project in Bournemouth

Make A Difference Day, Ashfield

A Fair Share Trust grant was awarded to Ashfield Volunteering to develop and promote volunteering opportunities in the FST neighbourhoods and it is hoped that this and other initiatives will raise the profile of community pride and action.

Fair Share Trust in Northern Ireland

See how the Fair Share Trust has changed the lives of people and local communities in Northern Ireland. This DVD celebrates the achievements and learning of this experience of consensual grant-making: 55 projects funded involving hundreds of people locally; a spend of £2.25 million.

Sunday Best Music Fest

Bournemouth, 2008
The project stems from the Fair Share Music Festival 2007, after which local residents set up a constituted group to continue the investment in music & the arts in West Howe.