Who We Work With | East Belfast Sure Start

Community Partners delivering services for East Belfast Sure Start currently include:

Ballybeen Women's Centre
Bloomfield Community Association
Short Strand Community Forum
First Steps - Tullycarnet Community Association
Walkway Community Association

We could not do this work without the support of the community champions around us and we would especially like to acknowledge:

Save the Children NI who continue to support the Building Block grants for families in East Belfast and this year supported us to deliver £10,540 funding to families in need of support.
EastSide Learning, a project of EastSide Partnership, who faithfully continue to travel along the road of improving outcomes for children in East Belfast and have done so for over 15 years.

These organisations, together with over 30 others representing Early Years work in East Belfast, form the EastSide Early Learning Community which has a Framework for improving children's speech, language and communication outcomes and social and emotional development.

You can find out more about the EastSide Early Learning Community here

East Belfast Community Development Agency (EBCDA) support our staff through mentoring and also through health and wellbeing workshops.
East Belfast Food Network who help to support our families with practical assistance.
Book Trust NI who faithfully, over many years, have supported us with book packs which we are able to share with our Programme for 2 Year Old Children and our Parent and Toddler groups, helping us to promote a lifeline love of books.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, who with incredibly generous funding of Hagan Homes, help us to support over 220 families every month with a book onto their doorstep.
Mountpottinger Church of Ireland and Westbourne Presbyterian Church, who supply us with beautiful blankets that are made with love and care for our youngest arrivals.
Christian Fellowship Church Belfast for faithfully support us to support our families through times of hardship.