The Trust is delighted to announce that Comic Relief will be funding the Techies in Residence programme for the 2018 cycle.

We’re delighted to announce that the host for this year’s FuSIon Fest will be Naomi McMullan. Naomi is a business journalist and broadcaster who wants to make economic news more accessible.

We are thrilled to announce, ‘FuSIon Fest – The Social Innovation Festival’, will be taking place in Northern in Derry and Belfast on 19th and 20th October 2017. 

Five of our Techies in Residence organisations have received a funding boost of nearly £70,000 from the Social Innovation Seed Fund to help them further develop their digital projects.

Two organisations have won nearly £30,000 in funding from the Social Innovation NI Seed Fund to help them further develop unique new projects.

Five projects are participating in the Building Change Trust’s new Social Innovation Skills Programme aimed at establishing a culture of Social Innovation in the VCSE sector.

There was a huge amount of interest for the second Techies in Residence programme; from an excellent range of high quality proposals, seven organisations were selected and have just begun work on an amazing variety of projects.

The Building Change Trust are pleased to announce five new projects that will benefit from mentoring and skills development as part of the Social Innovation NI Social Innovation Skills programme.

Northern Ireland’s two main cities are co-hosting a festival with a difference aimed at building unlikely connections for social change through social innovation.

The Unusual Suspects Festival, held in Northern Ireland on October 12-14, aims to challenge companies to look at new ways to do business and brings together those that you don’t expect to collaborate to tackle a range of social issues.

The Building Change Trust is excited to announce, as part of our commitment to Social Innovation, that we are bringing an exciting new festival to Northern Ireland that will bring together practitioners from across the UK, Ireland and elsewhere.

The Techies in Residence Programme, an initiative of the Building Change Trust managed by CultureTECH, has reached the next stage and each of the Techies have been placed with the VCSE organisations.
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The Building Change Trust are pleased to announce the Melting Pot have been appointed to help develop our exciting new Social Innovation NI initiative.

Social Innovation has been one of the Building Change Trust’s core themes since 2013.To date we’ve provided practical support to social innovators in the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in a wide range of ways. 

Techies in Residence has reached its first milestone with the close of the open call for problems and opportunities from the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise Sector. We chatted with CultueTECH’s Connor Doherty for a quick update on the numbers and what’s been going on so far....

The Building Change Trust is excited to announce the launch of our new ‘Techies in Residence’ programme which will bring expertise and knowhow from Northern Ireland’s ever expanding tech sector to the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector.

A video showing the behind the scenes footage from the recent SI Camp held at Crumlin Road Gaol has been uploaded to YouTube.

Students from Queen’s University Belfast, University of Ulster, North West College and Digital Media Choices came together recently to participate in the first major SI Camp event to take place in Northern Ireland.

SI Camp, alongside the Building Change Trust, is set to open the doors to their first major event in Northern Ireland on the 26^th November.

As part of the annual Northern Ireland conference for the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF), entitled ‘New Perspectives on a Changing Landscape’, Building Change Trust facilitated a workshop on the theme of social innovation. 

The Trust has committed to funding the first phase of an exciting new initiative in Northern Ireland.

April was a busy time for the Building Change Trust’s work to raise awareness of ‘Tech for Social Good: Digital Social Innovation’.

Yesterday saw the culmination of a week-long calendar of events designed to raise awareness of Digital Social Innovation in Northern Ireland.

As part of the Building Change Trust’s work on Social Innovation, the Young Foundation, one of the leading organisations globally in this field, was commissioned to carry out research on the potential for digital technology to be used for social good in Northern Ireland.

The Building Change Trust played a key role at last week’s BelTech 2014 conference.

As part of its work in Social Innovation, the Building Change Trust will be a major attraction at next months BelTech2014 conference. 

As part of its work in Social Innovation, the Building Change Trust hosted a series of study visits to learn more about this exciting concept.

As part of its work in Social Innovation, the Building Change Trust is hosting a series of study visits to learn more about this exciting concept.

The Building Change Trust is continuing its commitment to Social Innovation in Northern Ireland with the publication of new research.

Building Change Trust Administrator Nigel McKinney recently spoke at a major event in Belfast on the potential impact of innovation in Northern Ireland.

The Building Change Trust have launched research carried out by RSM McClure Watters and the Young Foundation, which is leading to a further committal of up to £1million into the area of Social Innovation in Northern Ireland.

The Building ChangeTrust is hosting the launch of a crucial piece of research into Social Innovation in Northern Ireland, at Crumlin Road Gaol on Friday 12 April 2013.

RSM McClure Watters and The Young Foundation, supported by The Building Change Trust are facilitating a series of information seminars and workshops on social innovation and would like to invite charities, as well as Community and Voluntary organisations to attend.

This week saw the first two in a series of Digital Lunches with the Building Change Trust, working in partnership with Slugger O’Toole.

The Building Change Trust, with the help of Slugger O’Toole, are hosting a series of Digital Lunches, discussing social innovation in the Northern Ireland.

The Building Change Trust is delighted to announce a new study into Social Innovation in the Northern Ireland Community and Voluntary Sector.

Creativity, new ways of thinking and trying to be more and more socially innovative were subjects for discussion at the latest Building Change Trust event.