The Full Service Community Network Project

The Full Service Community Network seeks to raise educational attainment through addressing the needs of the children, their families and the local community in the area served by the West Belfast Partnership Board and specifically those areas bounded by the Neighbourhood Renewal Areas of Upper Springfield and Greater Falls.

The overall strategic model utilised by the network will serve to consolidate existing government strategy and facilitate a process of improved integrated working across statutory, community and voluntary organisations to produce sustainable improvement in education, health and employment opportunities.

Full Service Community Network is focused around six key themes;

1. Support for learning – ensure literacy and numeracy targets are attained
2. Support links between primary and post primary schools
3. Personal Support
4. Family Support
5. Health and Well-being
6. Employment and Enterprise

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The Uganda Northern Ireland Schools Partnership Project (TUNISP)

In June 2008, Fr. Aloysius Bukenya visited St. Anne's Catholic Church in Belfast. He represented an interest of some Headteachers in Uganda, to get schools that were interested in creating links with Ugandan schools.

He was introduced to Terry Murphy,( Senior Advisor with CCMS) and the idea of the partnerships started to take flesh.

In 2009 various schools were invited to become part of a consortium of schools from the Greater Belfast area that would form links with schools in Uganda. This led to a visit of a group of 11 school leaders from Uganda, to Belfast in May 2009.

 Following the visit to Belfast, the Ugandan consortium extended an invitation, asking if a reciprocal visit could take place.

The main purpose of the visit was to gain a fuller appreciation of their partner schools in their home contexts and the challenges they face.

A return visit to the Ugandan schools will take place on 26 March this year in order to strengthen and develop the links formed last year and secure the permanency of TUNISP (The Ugandan /Northern Ireland Schools Partnerships).

Please help this wonderful cause. If you have any fundrasing ideas or would like to get involved please contact us.

Click Here to Visit the TUNISP webiste for more information.