A 10 year £10 million expendable endowment established to support change for development in the NI voluntary and community sector. Funded by @BigNIOnline

Belfast
Joined June 2011
This is the end, dear friends. Our final Board meeting took place today and our official business has concluded. You can follow @PJ_Braithwaite for updates as he oversees @SocInvNI & @techinres in 2019 as part of @CFNIreland Thank you all
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
We're looking for two Programme Managers to work on exciting projects arising from our Belfast Region City Deal - could this be the job for you? ow.ly/d10b50sjz5l #BelfastJobs #JobsFairy #BRCityDeal
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Did you know that mental health problems affect 1 in 5 in NI? ARN Foundation’s Mental Health Fund is now open w/grants of £10k-£50k available to projects supporting people affected by poor mental health e.g befriending schemes/social prescribing bit.ly/2V8bUcA
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
Upcoming Free Event with Grant Thornton: Tax breakfast event - tax efficient structures and reliefs for charities | Thurs 9 May | 8.30am - 10.00am. Click here for more info: co3.bz/event/tax-breakfast-e…
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
"Belfast hosts a different peoples vote" great article from @NickMGarbutt @scopeni on our #participatorybudgeting event at #imaginebelfast & how it's about re-energising our tired, broken #democracy #pbworks #brexit @UKPBNetwork @CommunityPlaces @OpenGovNI scopeni.nicva.org/article/be…
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
Only 4 days to go to the fantastic #ImagineBelfast festival and only 6 days to get your ideas in for our live #participatorybudgeting event - 'Imagine Democracy - You Decide!' - up to £500 available for (non-party) ideas around re-energising local #democracy #pbworks
BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
ABC Community Planning Partnership delighted to host Participatory Budgeting Workshop at #LoughNeaghDiscovery this morning. Fantastic learning and network opportunity with partners exploring new ways of empowering communities #pbworks #participatorybudgetingiscoming #ConnectedABC
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Trevor and Claire from the fantastic @MACS_NI talking about their experience of #communityinnovators - more workshops next week in Omagh and Newry - reg here communityfoundationni.org/co…
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
Help needed #socialprescribing can anyone find me examples of projects where NHS Social Workers carry out the Social Prescribing function more commonly done by #VCSE sector ?
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Congrats to two of our @techinres projects from last year for making the @DigitalDNAHQ #techforgood award shortlist! @Mencap_NI & uHub Therapy Centre digitaldna.org.uk/booknow-aw…
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
Great opportunity to work on @techinres this year - help us spread it far and wide! #techforgood @CFNIreland
Folks, we're looking for experienced freelance techies and/or tech companies small or large interested in working on some cool social challenges with VSCEs. Expressions of interest open here: lnkd.in/e6GKwmQ #northernirelan…lnkd.in/e83miiq lnkd.in/eBz5U_j
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
Here we have a lonely West of England Gander. He can't come & live in the house & needs a mate. Is there one out there anywhere? #rarebreeds #smallholding #geese #poultry
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
Do you know the owner of this beautiful ring? It was found at the Belfast Beard Company stall at the Christmas Market on Saturday - help them find the owner @BelfastBeard @belfastcc
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
And thank you all for the support you gave to us both directly and through @coopalts , support which allowed the RCDRS to raise £111,050 via their Community Shares Offer
This is the end, dear friends. Our final Board meeting took place today and our official business has concluded. You can follow @PJ_Braithwaite for updates as he oversees @SocInvNI & @techinres in 2019 as part of @CFNIreland Thank you all
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
Sadly #BCTtheend is here - been a fantastic 5 years for me and super proud of some of the amazing projects & people we've supported. Happily i'm staying on with @CFNIreland to continue the work on all things Civic and Social Innovation. So new twitter handle but the work goes on!
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Great piece from one of our members on the experience of taking part in the Citizens’ Assembly #ca4ni
SOAPBOX: An insider’s view of Northern Ireland’s first Citizens’ Assembly #CA4NI sluggerotoole.com/2018/12/01…
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BuildingChangeTrust retweeted
I'm closing this account tonight as @ChangeTrust closes tomorrow. I'll continue to tweet about all sorts over @NigelMcKinney and if you follow @Paul_BCT some of our work will continue @CFNIreland so all the best
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Supporting & collaborating w/civic activism groups has been a huge part of our work since 2015. We’re delighted to be supporting Democracy Day again in 2019 part of the annual @ImagineBelfast Speakers will include @GeorgeMonbiot Event tix imaginebelfast.com/events/ge…
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Although the Trust will not be operational after December 31st, the wealth of #VCSEFutures resources collated during 2016/17 will be available for the next 12 months at bit.ly/2RreGHR
We’ve only just begun…& #VCSEFutures is one of the projects we leave as our legacy. We held workshops & conducted research in 16/17 to give an opp for the sector, funders & policy makers to think about what needs to be done to make a difference now & into the future 1/2