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.

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

Work with us! See more details on our Business Support Officer role here: https://t.co/kvWfTYnsqG

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

Music, Art & Food, bringing people together @ Loch & Quay the centre of the community and the communities centre #SafeRegeneration #locality2 #IFS100

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

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.

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.

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.

Oxford House: established as a Christian a settlement house by Keeble College. Diverse adaptation and uses over the intervening decades.

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.

A universal experience - funders (inc the public sector) are not enabling community businesses to recover the full costs of service operations.

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.

We're inviting all DTNI members to join us for our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 25th November! This is your opportunity to stay connected, informed, and involved in the work advancing community-led regeneration and local enterprise across NI

📢CONSULTATION – Definition of Social Enterprise Growing the Social Economy Sector is a priority for the Economy Minister @CArchibald_SF and making the sector sustainable is a key feature of her economic vision. In order to deliver on this, we need to ensure that funding from