Sally Gardens pulls out all the stops during mid-term break with a fantastic trip to Dublin Zoo on 15^th February 2016. Forty young people attended the event and a great response from parents highlighted the need to continue this type of intervention.  A special thank you to our committed team of volunteers.

A huge thank you to our local Junior Minister and MLA Jennifer McCann for attending an awards ceremony at Sally Gardens on 26th January 2016.  Our young people received certificates for a recent series of accredited programmes to include, OCN Level 1 Drugs Awareness, OCN Level 1 Young People & Youth Justice, OCN Level 1 Peer Mentoring and many more.  Over 65 accredited qualifications have been achieved by our young people, a credit to their commitment and desire to make a difference in the lives.

Sally Gardens Youth Zone runs each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon.  For registration and further information contact Ronan 02890627250 or email ronan@sallygardens.org.  Activities are fun and engaging with a very diverse programme of events.

Sally Gardens Christmas intervention programme was a roaring success with a special visit from Santa on a number of occasions, visiting our Youth Zone, Youth Drop In, Senior Citizens, Colin Safer Neighbourhood Disco and we had all the pupils from St Kieran’s.  A total of 620 selection boxes had been given out to all participants.  A special thank you to Belfast PCSP for funding the event.  The centre remained open over the Christmas period to provide much needed youth provision.

We thought about the law and the law won!

A big shout out to Policing and Community Safety Partnerships and Belfast City Council who provided funding for PCA @ Sally Gardens to engage with over 20 young people on a range of programmes, one of which was  Community at Heart that challenged behaviours and consequences of behaviours.