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1 month

Another good shift tonight. That’s 10 of the 18 areas completed tonight. Back out Saturday morning.

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1 month

And that’s a wrap. Final two areas completed, mostly painting this afternoon, tidying up some murals to end our 18 area summer programme.

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1 month

Out again tonight. Top and bottom Bruslee way cleaned up. Railings at the grotto painted. 16 areas down with two to go tomorrow. All the encouragement and comments are class.

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2 years

New Lodge Road this morning from the bottom to New Lodge place…no better way to spend a Saturday morning.

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2 years

Wee squad out this morning cleaning up the front of the pensioners flats on the New Lodge and top and bottom Pinkerton Walk. All go…

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2 years

Wee squad cleaning up the back of the shops at the bottom of the New Lodge in the rain. Lifted 18 bags of rubbish and assorted plastic, vapes, a dead pigeon, the remains of a belfast bike and a dog bed…

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3 years

Wee squad cleaning Pinkerton walk and outside Victoria Nursery this morning…good shift put in

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3 years

Saturday morning and a wee squad doing a clean up round Carlisle in the wind and rain…

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1 month

Back out this morning completing another two of the 18 areas we had set out to spruce up as part of our summer project. Tough one that. Thanks to the Bosco Cafe for supporting this initiative.

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2 years

And that's a wrap...5 weeks of our summer clean up project completed. Tools packed away for another while. 130 black bags of rubbish lifted and streets transformed all of it paid for by the Bosco Cafe our social enterprise putting all of its profits back into the community.

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2 years

Lifted 3 black bags of weeds and moss from Henry Street and tidied up hedges on the New Lodge Road in the sweltering heat… great bit of work today.

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3 years

Twenty four years gone. Thinking of all his family, his friends and his community today and how much was taken from them.

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5 months

Róisín Dubh…new work of art. Bruslee way Good Friday 2024.

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1 month

Out this morning after being rained off last night. Completed another two areas with weeding, cutting back trees and bushes and sanding down railings around the grotto. 14 of the 18 planned areas completed. Out again tonight

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3 years

Saturday morning and a wee squad painting out graffiti and scrubbing out the moss at Duncairn Parade…fella who lives there gave the lads a packet of foxes biscuits and four tins of coke 😀

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2 months

Weeding and painting tonight as we completed another two of the spaces of the 18 areas we are aiming to refresh over the summer - top of the New Lodge and Hallidays Road.

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4 years

Our Young Men's Summer Scheme - something to do...

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6 years

21 years...remembering Terry for his humour, his kindness and strength. Our thoughts are with all the Enright family and all lucky enough to have called Terry their friend.

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4 years

Nearly finished these 7 hills. Tonight and tomorrow should do us.

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4 years

23 years gone...an injustice without atonement. A good man, a father, brother and son; a friend and inspiration to many.

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4 years

Full day of rubbish collecting and painting the walls brown on the seven hills. Railings and murals still to do.

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2 years

Bruslee way top and bottom cleared as part of our summer programme. 7 black bags full of weeds, rubbish, sand and muck lifted. Couple of extra helpers today…residents were all biz.

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2 years

A fella bought our wee squad these tools out of his £600 heating allowance. Will be put to good use helping young people learn how to work and to care for their community and the environment…

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2 years

Wee squad did a couple of jobs this morning local people had asked them to do that included the front of a pensioners house in Hillman Street and the bushes in Victoria Nursery…all go.

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12 days

Our summer…of learning, working, earning, gardening, baking, cooking, walking up hills and along shores, dancing, playing football, laughing, sitting on buses, painting, talking, relationship building, exploring the outdoors, helping others, cleaning …is coming to an end.

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1 month

Bit of painting,cutting back trees, wee bit of litter picked. 8 of 18 areas completed tonight. Another good shift put in…this is how getting your breakfast and lunch in The Bosco Cafe benefits this community.

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3 years

Wee squad cleaning up Bruslee Way this morning…14th Saturday morning in a row.

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3 years

A poorly resourced education system, stunted aspirations, generational unemployment, second class training...young people in our communities need support to see that their enemy is poverty in all its forms and incarnations.

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4 years

For two months now we’ve been shopping twice a week for 22 housebound older residents getting them fresh food and household essentials. We also provide Sunday dinners for about 45 older people every week. It’s been great.

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4 years

Sunday dinner for 44 older residents stuck at home. Five volunteers creating a wee bit of home comfort.

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3 years

Victoria nursery’s plants brighten up the seven hills on a dreary Wednesday in February…all these tiny steps help people reclaim spaces

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2 years

Bit of weeding, bit of tree surgery, bit of litter picking, lot of slagging and a crowd all wanting to do a bit. Ever read Tom Sawyer? Our summer scheme continues….

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1 month

Another two spaces spruced up- hedges trimmed, walls painted and seven bags of weeds and litter lifted at Victoria Parade and the steps at the end of Bruslee. 6/18 areas complete- sponsored by the Bosco Cafe

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4 years

Easter Sunday Dinners for 44. A wee helping hand for older people stuck in the house...

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1 year

A reduced wee squad the day after Saint Patricks day tackled an entry at the bottom of the New Lodge that had become a bit of a dumping ground.

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1 year

Wee squad cleaned up seven hills and bottom of Pinkerton this morning…the lads put a good shift in.

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3 years

Since March 2020 we have provided a weekly lunch to older residents and essential food shops. We prepared and delivered over 2000 meals...It was clear to us that it was not so much food poverty we were addressing but isolation and loneliness.

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2 years

Back round the Barrack doing a bit of a 12th clean up with a wee squad as part of our summer programme. Out again Thursday and Saturday this week…

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4 years

Our fourth week of Sunday dinners for older residents. Its getting tasty alright.

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2 years

Wee squad clearing at the back of Victoria Parade beside the Reccy this morning…were shattered as they had stayed up all night for their own reasons but buoyed by a wee woman giving them £20 between them..all biz.

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1 year

Wee squad cleaned up the bottom of the sevens this morning including the pathway up to the nursery and the club…

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3 years

Saturday morning painting out graffiti, cleaning footpaths of weeds and moss and doing each other’s heads in…all good

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2 years

Painting and weeding today at Hartwell Place and on the New Lodge…filled three black bags with weeds and rubbish. Used two tins of paint…place looking better

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17 days

Last day of the Summer work experience programme in the Bosco cafe today. Conal and Seaneen finishing today representing the last of 16 young people to gain paid training with us over July and August. We will be helping them all to update their CVs and find further work.

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3 years

Saturday morning in the rain cleaning up the barrack…

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3 years

Saturday morning cleaning the front and back of the shops at the bottom of the New Lodge…

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2 years

Wee squad cleaned the path and steps beside the barrack park this morning after being asked by local people to tidy it up…12 bags of rubbish, moss and weeds lifted.

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2 years

Wee squad planted 240 trees this morning up at Glas na Bradan Wood…all happed up with borrowed boots two sizes too big for them. Always up to no good these lads…

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4 years

As sheilding ends, today marks the last of our dinners for older residents. Our last grocery shop was this week also. A great effort by our volunteers over this past 4 months.

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3 years

Saturday morning cleaning the barrack wall at Lepper Street….

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4 years

Two murals completed on the seven hills.

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2 months

Trees cut back, bushes, weeds - tonight’s two clean ups seven hills, front of the shops, bottom of the New Lodge and Pinkerton. The first of 18 planned clean ups this summer sponsored by a he Bosco Cafe…

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3 years

Great wee street party organised by families in the New Lodge supported by the Bosco Cafe - the second of seven street parties our wee social enterprise is funding this summer in North Belfast 🎉

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2 years

In the first week of our summer programme we lifted 22 black bags of rubbish. Back at it tomorrow with a bit of painting later in the week.

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11 months

A different young world...working class young people changing their community, improving their skills and life chances. Having fun and challenging perceptions of what youth work can do...

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3 years

Wee squad painting a sheltered bit round the maisonettes…started out in sleet this morning and ended in bright sunshine by lunchtime.

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3 years

Saturday Morning and a wee bit of cleaning round the barrack…lads putting a good shift in. One local gave the lads a couple of quid and they are all bizz!

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3 years

It costs on average £12k a year for a young person to go to University -fees,accommodation,living costs and £340k a year for each young person in prison. Poverty, lack of opportunity, educational exclusion and neglect is a costly business...

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3 years

Penalty kick in the old North Queen Street Park, late 1980’s. Kevin Morgan, Gerard Campbell, Eamon Matthews and Danny Fields in the photo...

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6 years

18 people doing their driving theory class, 30 families and teenagers at the lyric theatre and 7 young people studying GCSE maths. The positive face of youth people in the New Lodge

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4 years

So much nonsense talked about youth provision in the New Lodge this past couple of days by carpetbaggers and opportunists attempting to exploit the young people of this community for their own political agenda. Shameful stuff endorsed by people you thought would no better.

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7 years

Twenty years in the blink of an eye. Remembering Terry Enright - a life full of love, fun and so much potential needlessly taken. 11th January 1998.

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4 years

Sunday Dinners on their way...doing our little bit to help.

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4 months

Young people fixed up 11 bikes to make them summer safe last week; Bosco Cafe has had a busy week with young workers taking the lead; wee bit of outreach to deter young people from fighting on the interface; and, 22 young people coming along tomorrow to find about our summer jobs

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3 years

Cleaning up New Lodge place on a windy Saturday morning...the lads put a decent shift in.

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1 year

Wee squad cleared top Pinkerton and the alley up to Bruslee this morning before the rain was due…a local resident gave them a few quid so they’re delighted.

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2 years

Wee squad cleaned weeds, trimmed hedges and cut back low hanging tree branches this morning round the barrack beside some older residents homes…

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2 years

Top and bottom Pinkerton Walk cleared of weeds, three black bags filled. Tree at Victoria Nursery cut back…decent shift put in on a hot day.

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4 years

Our usual Sunday dinners and desserts for 43 older residents stuck in the house during lockdown.

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3 years

Saturday Morning giving the bottom of the New Lodge and North Wueen Street a wee tidy up….

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1 year

Couple of weeks break from the Saturday morning clean ups for the wee squad…they’ve tidied up most of the Lodge this past while. Starting with some graffiti painting out and murals next month and some big jobs over the summer…

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3 years

Education remains a pivotal strand in our work with young people…for working class communities of all shades, denominations and backgrounds access to education represents freedom and hope

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2 years

Round the barrack this morning…toughest clean up yet. These weeds fought back…glad to be finished. Lads being treated to lunch in the Bosco paid for by a local resident.

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2 years

Artillery has pioneered youth work that challenged the economic injustice we see around us. We started a Credit Union. We set up a social enterprise café. We support working families and during Covid we redirected our financial resources to support the vulnerable and isolated.

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5 months

Friday morning in the Bosco Cafe our wee social enterprise. We’ve trained and found jobs for 17 young people in this past year. Youth work at its heart.

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1 year

Wee squad cut back trees and shrubs and clear weeds from the bottom of the road up to the top Bruslee. Back out again next week…

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1 year

Talked a young fella out of fighting today with others who were armed with knives and got knocked back from funding from the Lottery…to be fair both easier than they sound.

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1 year

Ridiculously talented…union street May 2023

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3 years

Brilliant to see the Bone Hills getting approval for redevelopment, renewal and regeneration. It does though put the lack of facilities in the New Lodge in sharp focus. Our children and young people deserve better, they really do.

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1 year

So we recruited the wee squad to clean up the bottom of the sevens and as a treat marched them up to the top of the cave hill twice…

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4 years

43 Sunday Dinners for older residents stuck at home...a fruit salad this week instead of cake. Might be uproar!

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2 years

Took part in a workshop at the weekend where a middle aged participant described how one of the first choices they had made as a young person was to play the violin and drop piano…different set of choices for young people round our way at that time and since

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7 months

New Lodge 1969

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4 years

43 Sunday dinners today for older and vulnerable residents. Wee bit of honeycomb ice cream for dessert...nice.

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2 years

Our building photographed around 1982. No trees, wide open spaces and a sanger on top of Templar House.

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1 year

Wee squad gave the seven hills a bit of a tidy up tonight…gonna head down to the coast here afterwards

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3 years

Just for the record we have recieved no funding from peace 1,2,3 or 4. Not a penny from the European Social Fund. Nothing from CRC or Executive Office. No EA core funding, nothing from Communities in Transition...and we are totally fine about it. Did get a free Peace 4 pen once..

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7 years

A very entertaining visit to the Bosco from Eamon Holmes...talking growing up in the New Lodge and Artillery Youth Centre

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3 months

Worked with St Patrick’s 2010’s Pumas and a couple of their mates to clean up top Pinkerton walk tonight…

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3 years

Opened in 1969 as a Belfast Corporation Youth Club. Operated as a BELB youth club until 1996. A youth led independent young adult centre for the past 25 years...resilient,creative and a fierce advocate for this community and its children and young people.

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4 years

Shopping for 20 pensioners and delivering on a Tuesday and Friday. Making Dinners for 44 on a Sunday every week. Working with 3 pharmacies and 12 volunteers to deliver vital medicines. Lunches for 16 school children twice a week. 9 books borrowed from our library. Its all good

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2 years

Saturday morning and a wee squad are clearing rubbish and weeds round the barrack at the request of some older residents…all go.

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1 year

Wee squad back at it cleaning up the dead space at the back of the shops at the bottom of the New Lodge and outside Victoria Nursery and the bottom of the seven hills.

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4 years

50 hampers including meat parcels and toys to families needing a wee hand and isolated older residents of the New Lodge, Newington and Tigers Bay. We linked with NBAP to ensure we were reaching those who needed support. Over £2k donated by local business and residents from NLR.

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3 months

Wee squad Cleaned up behind the shops at the bottom of the New Lodge this morning - lifted 10 black bags of rubbish.

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9 months

The Bosco and Artillery closed up today until the new year. We want to wish all our friends, supporters, patrons, members and volunteers a happy and peaceful Christmas.

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2 years

Young Kieran on work experience this week at the Bosco…brilliant attitude, cheerful and hard working. These young people - always up to no good 😊

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3 years

Saturday morning clean up at the back of Bruslee and the steps…rained off the painting we’d planned

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1 year

Top of Spamount Street 1988…Patsy’s

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2 years

Anthony Duffy was the leader in charge at Artillery in the 1970’s, still lives locally, still interested in our work, still a strong community spirit…youth work is still the purest expression of community development if it’s done right.

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