AUGHAKILLYMAUDE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION PROJECT TITLE: Establishment of Local and International Mumming Networks - Widening our horizons through folk drama. The Project aims to initiate an international network of masked festivals and carnivals that promote mumming plays and fertility rituals. The proposed international network on the shared theme of mumming and masking will have a particular focus on Eastern Europe and Bulgaria in particular where pioneering links have already been established with both strategically placed organised actions and localized cultural groups that have steadfastly practiced ancient pagan folk drama fertility rituals as an integral part of their calendar cultural customs. It is anticipated that the masked festival network involving mumming troupes will reach out to include several Eastern Europe countries making the cultural connections with Western European countries especially within Ireland and England. It is hoped that the masked carnival network will firstly learn and develop models of good practice, (primarily from each other) and essential learning which could then be implemented in other folk drama circles. Secondly, leading by example, the Aughakillymaude mumming troupe through their expanding networks will develop an increased knowledge base and a shared understanding of a common cultural heritage. As such the network will bring learning and masked rituals from other dispersed regions and show how they have been able to accommodate differences through popular folk drama re-enactments. Eventually, the masked festival network will cascade and disseminate these learning's through a wider cross-sector network of bodies including those originating from the community and statutory sectors, academic institutions, Arts and tourism promotion bodies and District Councils.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND PROJECT TITLE: Community Foundations in Divided Societies

CFNI is an indigenous Community Foundation working to drive social change by:

tackling social exclusion, poverty and social injustice through funding and supporting community-based actions working in partnership with others to challenge, inform and influence policy and practice development both locally and internationally maximising the resources available for effective grant-making and related support work .

Consistent with its aim to influence policy and practice locally and internationally, the project will develop an international network of Community Foundations delivering peace-building, social inclusion, social economy and social justice grant-making programmes in divided societies. The Network will engage with at least six existing Community Foundations in other regions where society is emerging from conflict and engaged in peace building activity or in regions where ongoing conflict continues. This may include regions in South Africa, the Middle East , Eastern and Central Europe, West Asia and Central / Latin America.The initial development phase will focus on a membership Charter, criteria, communication mechanisms and agreed priority actions. It will then work to share learning and develop models of good practice which could be implemented in Northern Ireland as well as encouraging other regions to learn from the conflict resolution experience in NI. As such the Network will bring learning in while enabling the outward dissemination of the NI experience in conflict transformation and the learning arising from the Peace I and II programmes to other regions.

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