What’s On?

What’s On?

Poleglass Community Association @ Sally Gardens offer a range of services, additional projects run throughout the year such as Building Your Future Employability Project, CIT Health & Wellbeing, CIT Community Safety, centre based educational projects, accredited and non-accredited programmes.  Please refer to Poleglass Community Association @ Sally Gardens Facebook for most recent opportunities.

Youth Provision 

Our Thriving Youth Project runs each Tuesday and Wednesday 5pm to 9pm contact the centre for further information.

Alternative Therapies

Alternative therapy treatment is available on an appointment/referral basis each Tuesday & Thursday 9.00am-3.00pm.  Please contact Sinead on 028 90627250 for further details.

Advice Clinic

Sally Gardens Advice Clinic takes place each Wednesday 10.00 am-1.00.

Building Your Future Employability Programme

Takes place Monday to Friday, please email roisin@sallygardens.org  for further details.

Community Art Programme

Our community art programme takes place each Thursday 11am to 11am.

Circuit Training

Circuit Training takes place each Tuesday & Thursday 6.00pm-7.00pm .

Senior Citizens Weekly Luncheon Club

Sally Gardens Seniors meet each Friday 11.30am-1.30pm for lunch and additional activities. Contact Lisa on 02890627250.

 

Youth

Youth

Sally Gardens provide a diverse range of youth based activities in partnership with local and regional providers. Youth programmes focus on early intervention initiatives with the primary aim of developing young people into positive role models that can influence others.

Sally Gardens & Safer Neighbourhood Intervention Disco

Colin Safer Neighbourhood Project provides a weekly disco each Friday 7.00pm-8.30pm, targeting 7+ age group. The disco is run and managed by a team of volunteers.

Connect Youth Project

The Connect Youth Project aim to remove individual barriers to training and employment by assisting young people aged 15-25 to overcome extreme, social and educational disadvantage so they can make a difference in their lives, enabling them to become economically active and make a positive contribution to their communities.

Opening times:

Monday 11.30-6.00pm

Tuesday 1.00-9.00pm

Wednesday 1.00-9.00pm

Thursday 12.00-8.00pm

Co-Ment Employability Programme

Takes place Monday to Friday, please contact Charlene for further details .

Job Assist

Job Assist provides an outreach facility each Wednesday 11.30am-1.00pm. Job Assist Centre is a community employment service which strives to challenge the exceptionally high levels of unemployment, economic inactivity and poverty in West Belfast. Job Assist provides mentoring and support to those furthest from the labour market to removing barriers to employment.

Circuit Training

Circuit Training takes place each Tuesday & Thursday 6.00pm-7.00pm .

 

Seniors

Seniors

Sally Gardens Seniors meet each Friday 11.30am-2.00pm. It is a lively group of about 20 members; it is an opportunity for social contact in a relaxing environment with a range of activities, bingo, alternative therapies, music, dance, intergenerational projects etc. The weekly luncheon club is a much needed resource which is only made possible by a team of dedicated volunteers.

PCSP Funds Sally Gardens Inclusion Project

Well done to our Poleglass group that attended a Community Inclusion Project at Sally Gardens funded through PCSP.  The group have been exploring the importance of active citizenship and the role young people play in creating a positive image in the Poleglass area.  The group intend holding a question and answer with the local PSNI team, a great opportunity to highlight issues from both sides!

Gary Cusack Young Volunteer of the Year

Well done to Gary Cusack, Young Volunteer of the Year selected at Lisburn City Council gala ceremony.  The Mayor, Councillor Brian Heading, said it was a fantastic evening “which acknowledged the overwhelming work undertaken by the voluntary sector in the Lisburn area”. Gary received the award for his dedication and commitment to young people attending Sally Gardens Community Centre.   A special thank you goes to all our volunteers.