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The Corrymeela Community, Ballycastle, Co Antrim
The Corrymeela Community is one of Northern Ireland’s oldest and most respected reconciliation organisations. Established in 1965, Corrymeela has forty years experience of managing peace and reconciliation projects. It has consistently provided safe places and programmes of reconciliation tailored to the needs of schools, youth groups, churches and community based organisations throughout the island of Ireland.
In addition to its centre in Belfast, over 4,000 participants take part in programmes at the Corrymeela residential centre in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, each year.
This has included hosting the Public Achievement International Youth Camp in 2005 that brought together 52 young people from 11 nations including Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Palestine and Israel to help them understand and appreciate the cultures of other peoples and their countries through a range of interactive activities.
The International Fund for Ireland through the Community Bridges Programme has supported several of Corrymeela’s initiatives over the last twenty years including; £220,000 towards the construction of a new residential facility at the Ballycastle site, £93,975 for the highly successful Family and Community Work Project, and £84,650 for the excellent Teacher Education Project.
Corrymeela Community places great emphasis on a reconciliation residential experience because it can create a new openness to deal with issues that people find difficult in their home territory.
As such, the Corrymeela Community has produced a Ballycastle site development initiative that will see the replacement of the current voluntary accommodation, the building of new residential accommodation for up to 34 people, and the refurbishment and upgrading of other units at the site in order to support enhanced delivery of reconciliation programmes. It is hoped that construction will begin in the summer of 2007.
The International Fund is providing £1m of the estimated £1.4m cost of the project under its Legacy Programme and, according to David Stevens, Leader, Corrymeela Community, without this funding the project wouldn’t be able to go ahead.
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