Girdwood Shared Youth Programme

 Over the past few years the Girdwood Shared Youth programme has used the Youth Space in Girdwood to build on, consolidate and embed peace building and good relations work amongst young people across North Belfast. During this time our project - Girdwood Shared Youth Space - has focused on attracting a cross-community mix of young people into the Girdwood Youth Space and encouraged their participation in cross-community activities and programmes. 

 All of the work of the Girdwood Shared Youth programme is overseen by the Girdwood Youth Forum, a group of young people from the Lower Oldpark, Lower Shankill, Lower Cliftonville and Newlodge areas of North Belfast. These young people have a vision of Girdwood as a shared safe place for all local young people and have helped design and develop the Girdwood Shared Youth programme to ensure this vision can be realised.