WOMENS SUPPORT NETWORK (WSN) PROJECT TITLE: Women Networking

The Women's Support Network (WSN), established in 1989, is an umbrella membership organisation for over 40 community-based women's centres, women's projects and women's infrastructure groups. WSN is a charitable and feminist organisation, which adopts a community development approach. WSN operates in Belfast and across Northern Ireland and the border regions, while maintaining & developing strong links with national & global women's organisations.

WSN Mission Statement..
Women's Support Network promotes the autonomous organisation of women in order to achieve social, political and economic justice through providing accessible, relevant and high quality support services and resources for our membership; promoting and developing networking to enable collective action and to impact on policy and decision-making processes.

Services provided to and on behalf of WSN member groups:

Proactive Campaigning and Direct Lobbying Responding to consultation documents Advice Signposting Creating Networking opportunities Bi-monthly Newsletter Outreach support

The Women's Support Network believes that the art of networking is finding and representing the commonalties we share, while at the same time affirming, valuing and giving voice to our differences as organisations and individuals within them. It exists to safeguard the autonomy and rights of community women's groups as centres of local democracy and active agents of social change. The Women's Support Network is not only accessible to its constituency but also directed by it. It seeks to encourage and advance the full participation of it's membership and in particular those groups of women who are marginalised or unheard within our society.

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YOUTH ACTION NORTHERN IRELAND PROJECT TITLE: Learning Together

YouthAction Northern Ireland has sixty years experience of working with children and young people throughout Northern Ireland aged between 10 - 25 years. Our aim is to support them as active and equal citizens whose voices are heard, respected and valued.

We are a voluntary youth organisation that works to enable young people achieve their full potential. We also seek to extend the understanding of youth work through the development of innovative models of practice.

Alongside delivering programmes in urban and rural communities we work with other voluntary, statutory and community organisations to support and assist young people as they strive to find and/or create their identity and develop their role in the community. We provide services complementary to statutory and other independent agencies throughout Northern Ireland. Particular emphasis is placed on groups from disadvantaged communities who are working towards their own development.

Our current project funded under Measure 4.1 - Outward and Forward Looking Region is to complete a European Comparative Study on Young People and Rural Development involving partners in three other European countries. The partners include Southern Latgale NGO in Latvia, Urkraft in Sweden and the Kerry Dioesan Youth Service in the Republic of Ireland.
The project operates from our bases in Crossmaglen and Ballygawley - two rural border locations and the young people and community activists from South Tyrone and South Armagh are the main beneficiary groups from a Northern Ireland (NI) perspective.