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Kirk House Wins Prestigious Dementia Award

6 February 2015

Staff at BCM's Kirk House Residential Home have won a prestigious award which recognises their expertise in dementia care. Kirk House won the 'Staff Team of the Year' Award on 4^th February at the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) NI Dementia Achievement Awards at the Europa Hotel which recognise organisations and individuals who have worked to improve the quality of life for people with living dementia.

Housing Support for Older People is Expanding

3 February 2015

Housing Support for Older People in the Dungannon and Armagh area has been extended and they now cover the Craigavon, South Armagh and bordering areas. This brings the total number supported from 50 to 80 older people. This is great news for the team as it also welcomes two new members of staff.

Now taking referrals - click here to find out more or contact, Leona the project Manager: Email: llarkham@belfastcentralmission.org or Tel: +44 (0)28 8775 0175

Exciting news about Copelands!

21 January 2015

The Planning application for BCM's flagship project, Copelands, Dementia and Nursing Care, has now been recommended for approval by DoE Planning and was endorsed by Ards Borough Council at their meeting on 13th January.

Christmas 2014 at BCM

8 January 2015

Christmas 2014 was a great year as we were able to help a lot of individuals and families who were in need.

Thanks to the generosity of churches, schools, local businesses and individuals we have had another successful Christmas at Belfast Central Mission. This year, we gave 3, 250 children and teenagers a toy parcel or gift and approximately 1, 860 families and senior citizens a food parcel. All of the individuals and families were extremely grateful for the help they received.

Richard's Ramblings

5 January 2015

Here we are and another New Year begins. As it does, I can’t help reflecting back over all the hopes, dreams… and disappointments of New-Years gone by. We often talk of New Year’s resolutions and the hopes that as another new year dawns, we will somehow, somewhere find the strength, the focus the increased will-power needed to achieve things that have been niggling away at us, often for significant periods of time.

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From BCM’s foundation in 1889, volunteers have played a vital role in the life of the Mission and this remains true today. In fact this is an expanding area of our work and the contribution made by our volunteers has been calculated as an amazing 11,100 volunteering hours in the year Jan - Dec 2015 alone...