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L’Arche Belfast is a registered charity dedicated to fostering community, integration, and inclusivity for adults with learning disabilities, we are excited to announce the expansion of our services.

We currently offer Supported Living for 14 residents and Day Opportunities for 100 participants weekly. Our exciting new initiative is a groundbreaking Short Breaks Service, providing much-needed respite for families by offering 1,820 short breaks per year. In May 2024 we were delighted to welcome the Health Minister to L’Arche and he welcomed the expansion of this much needed short breaks service for our local community.

To make this vision a reality, we have launched our Short Breaks Service Fundraising campaign to raise over £200,000.

We invite you to learn more about the campaign through our attached slideshow and appreciate any support you can give by sharing through all your channels, details of our fundraising campaign to support adults with learning disabilities and their families.

With your support, we can secure a house in the Castlereagh hills, creating a safe and nurturing environment for our Short Breaks Service.

Nationwide have been a continual support to our community over the past year from grant support, organising a sponsored walk and providing volunteers in our projects.

The team are delighted to announce that we have been successful in obtaining a new grant! This new grant will allow us to renovate our original house that opened in 2001, to run our Art project “In Other Words” for another year and to create our very first music therapy section. 

We are deeply grateful for their support which lets us continue to change one heart at a time.

L’Arche Belfast just celebrated our 18th Anniversary.

Without the dedication of Maria and Scott over the years, this journey would not have been possible, they are a continuous strength to us all. Scott is a much respected, inspirational Community Leader.

The community extend Gillian much love and best wishes in her future adventures. 

Gillian was the driving force behind the development of our projects. 

We sincerely hope that her new place of employment is full of fun and happiness and we all thank her for her time with L’Arche Belfast.

Our projects all came together over the summer months on a Wednesday evening for this new social event which was a huge success! Starting off at St Johns church community pizza event the teams walked down to the Pavilion Bar for a night of fun and laughter.

A big thank you to Brian for organising this new event.

Watch this space for a new project emerging!

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The annual trip to Rathlin was great fun and we were blessed with fantastic weather which even allowed games on the beach!