Our Partnership

Enterprise North West are a social enterprise that aims to assist entrepreneurs at any stage of their business journey plus support our local community through a variety of initiatives as highlighted below. Enterprise North West has a strong social ethos focussed on social enterprise and regeneration through initiatives such as direct social impact to the local community and voluntary organisations, free business support to local SMEs and social enterprises, grant funding and bursaries. 

Established in 2001, the Old Library Trust is a registered charity that provides services and activities to reduce health inequalities, address the underlying causes of poor health and improve community health and wellbeing. We operate from and manage a 20,000 Square foot Healthy Living Centre facility in Central Drive, Creggan: whose people are nothing but welcoming, second to none, with leaders across all sectors doing amazing work.

Founded in 1996, the Bogside and Brandywell Initiative was a coalition of 30+ Bogside and Brandywell community groups. Their initial focus was on addressing the lack of community infrastructure and this quickly moved to become increasinglyresident-oriented. As resident engagementincreased, environmental improvement schemes became important, based on the ‘broken windows theory’. This aimed to improve the physical appearance of areas where people lived and worked.

Holywell Trust is a community relations and community development initiative established in September 1988.

We were founded to foster better relationships and social transformation in the North West and across Northern Ireland.

Through a range of groundbreaking approaches and methodologies, Holywell has contributed significantly to the tackling of contested space and the building of shared and respected places.

Destined is a support charity for people with learning disabilities based in both Derry City and Feeny, County Derry. It offers services to over 250 people to help reduce their levels of isolation and exclusion from society and supports the community to become proactive in the process of inclusion and integration. The organisation has an ethos of empowerment for its members through skills acquisition and works on the basis that people with learning disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else in society with the difference being that they may need extra support to become involved in normal everyday activities.  

Bogside & Brandywell Health Forum (BBHF) is a Healthy Living Centre based in Derry but serving individuals from across the North of Ireland and beyond. It was registered as a company in 2007 but has been operational from 1999 when initially funded though the New Opportunities Fund. 

We offer a holistic approach to health and well-being in the community, schools and in workplaces. Our aim is to support and help people in our community to live a healthy lifestyle. We offer a wide range of programmes addressing physical and mental health, nutrition, smoking and connecting people into the community.  

Nerve Centre is an award-winning creative arts centre providing access to the creative industries for many young people in Northern Ireland.Nerve Centre aims to provide a meaningful engagement in the arts for young people by bringing popular music, film, animation and digital media together.

We promote skills and talent development through creative collaboration, partnership and fusion between artists, audiences and participants across art form and activity providing a cultural outlet for many young people who would normally feel excluded from the arts. 

Developing Healthy Communities Northern Ireland have over 30 years' experience improving peoples’ lives. Their innovative programmes focus on improving mental, physical and social wellbeing. 

They support communities, families and work places through their mentoring, training and funding programmes, and champion healthcare needs with decision makers. They are part of a global wellbeing initiative, connecting people and facilitating conversations in order to share best practice.

The People’s Hall project aims to re-imagine one of Derry’s most iconic spaces, St Columb’s Hall. The Hall is a Grade A listed former Catholic Church building and Temperance Hall built by the local community in 1886 and located in a strategically important location in the heart of Derry’s Walled City. 

St Columb’s Hall is 45,000 square feet in size and was once the epicentre of Derry’s cultural and civic activities. It has been in decline for many years and is now on the buildings at risk register.

Creggan Enterprises is a charity and social enterprise, which seeks to address the causes of social and economic disadvantage and exclusion in the wider Creggan area by promoting local ownership and creative solutions to the process of community renewal and revival. 

Creggan Enterprises promotes economic democracy and sustainable development, generating income from its core services, rent and grant aid.  

Bready Ulster Scots were established as a charitable organisation in 2003 with the main purpose of “promoting and preserving the Ulster-Scots culture and heritage of local people”.

Based at the Sollus Centre in Bready, we serve the local community and surrounding district by offering a range of activities and events which support the understanding and celebration of the Ulster-Scots rich contribution to the life of Northern Ireland.

New Gate are a vibrant arts and culture centre, where everyone can experience the unique cultural heritage of our community.

New Gate Arts & Culture Centre is located in The Fountain area of Londonderry; close to the historic walls and the city centre. It is easily accessible and close to all major transport links.

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We provide a range of workshops, classes, performances, talks, tours, festivals and cultural events. As well as facilitated discussions, good relations workshops and peace building initiatives. 

St Columb’s Park House opened as a peace and reconciliation centre in 1994 offering a shared space for learning, leadership and peaceful activism. Our mission is to be the heart of the park, supporting local people to be changemakers, peacebuilders and active citizens within our community.

Through the charity, (St Columb’s Park Reconciliation Trust), we facilitate a range of projects that encourage and support communities and individuals to work together towards a fair, peaceful society where every individual feels valued and can make a positive difference. People involved in our projects come from all walks of life and inspire us to have hope and to keep working together for peace and justice on a personal, local and regional level.

The Glen Development Initiative (GDI) mission is to be ‘a gathering place for art, education, recreation and community development’. We achieve this through a partnership with local people, community organisations, statutory agencies and businesses.

GDI primary objective of the is to “improve the general area of the Greater Glen Area of Derry City”. GDI believes in the power of community to support the individual, and in the power of the individual to support the community.

The Rural Area Partnership in Derry consists of representatives from community organisations, statutory authorities, the private sector and special interest groups and its primary objective is: “To halt the social and economic decline of the rural communities within the Derry City & Strabane District Council Area and to enable these communities in partnership with all interested parties to devise locally led strategies to facilitate sustainable social, economic and cultural development.”

Formed in 1994 RAPID has delivered a variety of rural development programmes over the years, many of these in partnership with the local Council and other statutory organisations, the success of this approach is well documented.

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DCSDC is a local authority that is committed to building the profile of the North West as a unique and exciting destination, and creating the perfect environment for businesses to thrive. Serving a population of 150,000 Council is working closely with a range of partners to drive social, economic and environmental change here through its Strategic Growth Plan. This blueprint for development and regeneration will drive economic growth and prosperity creating a thriving, prosperous and sustainable City and District with equality of opportunity for all.