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DTNI is a member-led network of community development practitioners with an enterprise focus. #AssetsPeoplePlace
109-113 Royal Avenue Belfast
Joined April 2013
The Mid-Term Review of NI’s Energy Strategy is out. Progress is welcome – but communities still lack the support needed to own local energy. DTNI's response: https://t.co/FjIAUGMKUG
#CommunityEnergy #NetZero #JustTransition
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The publication of the Mid-Term Review of the Energy Strategy – Path to Net Zero Energy marks an important checkpoint in Northern Ireland’s transition to a
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An exciting learning opportunity from our partners at EFS - A Free Online Course in Civic Engagement! Make sure to sign up before 12 January! Register here: https://t.co/CWSP58aCHI
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Good to hear that the Minister for Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs speaking @ Friends of the Earth ‘Free Lough Neagh’ event speak in support of a Community ownership model for Lough Neagh, transferring from the Shaftesbury Estate.
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Communications Workshop at The Gasyard Centre! Join us on Thursday 15th January and kick of the year with a practical & interactive one day session on effectively communicating your organisation's impact! Book your space: https://t.co/Hc2oKgKZFD
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Work with us! See more details on our Business Support Officer role here: https://t.co/kvWfTYnsqG
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Make sure to secure your spot on our Communicating Impact workshop in Derry on the Thursday 15th January 2026! Register here: https://t.co/E01taO3ZwU
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Great to bring partners together this week with LNDT and North Star Transition as we begin shaping a new east/west Transition Lab programme bringing community & system managers together to co-design practical, long-term solutions for Lough Neagh!
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Bairbre Nic Aongusa references renewable energy islands & Aran. DTNI will connect Aran and Rathlin, bringing expertise from Samsø (Demark) Energy Academy. All island & EU Shared learning strengthens the work of the sector in the ownership of energy infrastructure #socentireland
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Opening the 2025 National Social Enterprise conference Minister Gerry Buttimer (@jerrybuttimer) at the Department of Rural Community Development and the Gaeltacht. Great praise & acknowledgment of the SE in Ireland. Let’s talk about A Social Economy for A Shared Island.
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A good start to the @STEP @Devtrustsni (@NIO Connect Fund programme). In partnership with Lough Neagh Development Trust and Jyoti/Vicky from @North Star Transition, developing east/west relationships & drawing expertise to look afresh at a Regenerative Lough Neagh.
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On the 15th January DTNI, with Amanda Doherty & Suzanne Rodgers will deliver a practical & interactive communications workshop designed to help your organisation communicate impact more clearly & confidently! Find out more & register here: https://t.co/839gwYHT9A
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Music, Art & Food, bringing people together @ Loch & Quay the centre of the community and the communities centre #SafeRegeneration #locality2 #IFS100
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We're inviting all DTNI members to join us for our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 25th November! Register: info@dtni.org.uk This is your opportunity to stay connected, informed, and involved in the work advancing community-led regeneration and local enterprise across NI
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New York University Settlement CEO Melissa Aase, notes the strength of the global movement of communities, but notes, we are micro-managed, over looked and taken for granted - challenges to rise above, to deliver the services communities need, holding people and places together.
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Trickle down devolution like trickle down economics isn’t working. Locality’s new report, ‘Community Powered Neighbourhoods’ ( https://t.co/4YvQyfyYXi). sets out the case for communities in the lead, driving bottom up devolution with community anchor organisations at its heart.
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Addressing IFS delegates, Toynbee Hall CEO Rebecca Sycamore, speaking about contemporary participatory community development practices, how we engage & respond to people’s lived experience including digital exclusion and access to and use of money.
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Oxford House: established as a Christian a settlement house by Keeble College. Diverse adaptation and uses over the intervening decades.
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1890s settlement ‘Oxford House’. So many changes in practice since, today community development practice is focussed on Arts & Heritage. The service changes as the demographic changes and as circumstances dictate - adapt to survive.
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A universal experience - funders (inc the public sector) are not enabling community businesses to recover the full costs of service operations.
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With the IFS (International Federation of Settlements) at Bromley by Bow, great to connect with such a diverse range of social activists & to get a better appreciation of the breadth of civic action from across the globe.
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