Four months ago I moved to Belfast from Gap in France, writes Jeff Vachier. Coming to live in Northern Ireland was a chance to meet people from here – and discover more about this place and its way of life…. One of the things that...

“I sat glowing”; “It was like watching pure gold melting” – Eddie Spence searches for words to do justice to the moment when his west Belfast community garden project scooped the top accolade at a City Council award ceremony.   The Brighter Belfast Awards celebrate...

Every day I park my car a few minutes walk from university. I’m pretty sure the walk from my car into class is one of the most enjoyable I will ever get to experience, writes Hannah Stewart, and here is why…  Along part of the...

I believe in the power of words; their ability to speak into someone’s life – to change people’s stories actually – to communicate hope and life, writes Luke Williams. I’d love to see our city become home to new words – new stories – and best...

They stared wide-eyed into a computer screen – facing ‘the other community’ for the first time – asking questions they’d never uttered before – hearing answers that would change their lives. Interface Diaries is a project which brings groups of teenagers from across divides in...

They were ten teenage girls from Antrim who signed up to a training course on human trafficking.  She was a young woman from Poland whose life had been horribly interrupted by the sex industry. They were unsure about what the programme would involve and how...