Policy and Influencing Community Development

The Belfast Agenda: your future city Belfast’s community plan

Published On: 1st November 2017

By: Belfast City Council

This is the first community plan for Belfast up to 2035. The plan outlines the opportunities, impact ambition for 2032, vision, outcomes with population indicators, area profile and focus for the next four years on Growing the economy, living here, city development and working and learning. Under each of these priorities are goals, and workstreams (actions). The plan also records how they developed the Agenda, including shared values with partners.

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Published on: 29th January 2025

UK Poverty 2025: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK

This report looks across a range of data sources and published insights to build up a comprehensive picture of the current state of poverty across the United Kingdom in 2025, providing details on which groups are facing high rates of poverty and poverty rates across UK nations and regions.

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Published on: 25th February 2022

Health Literacy in Community Pharmacy – The ‘Teach Back’ Method

This short video demonstrates a Pharmacist using the ‘Teach Back’ Health Literacy technique.

Guides/Factsheets/Toolkits

Published on: 1st September 2021

A Toolkit for Co-Production in Community Planning

This toolkit is based on the experience of delivering the Carnegie Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland Programme with three Community Planning Partnerships, a review of global practice and consultations with key stakeholders from all of the region’s Community Planning Partnerships. The toolkit covers definitions and principles, community engagement and empowerment for co-production, co-producing in community planning partnership structures and co-producing with service users. The toolit looks at each of the issues, provides advice and guidance and directs to resourses and case studies.