Experiences and progress of Peace Bytes participants in 2021
The experiences of young people from St Cecilia’s College on the Peace Bytes programme At Bytes, the feedback we receive from participants and staff informs how we plan our work and adapt our programmes to changing circumstances. Over the last year this has been more important than ever before, with all of our work being […]
Belfast Men’s Hostel – Boosting confidence and self-esteem
As part of the Key to Life programme, Bytes delivered a 7-week self-confidence and self-esteem 7-week course to participants in the Utility Street Men’s Hostel, Belfast. For these young men, homelessness is not just a housing issue but something that is intimately linked with complex and chaotic life experiences, including traumatic childhood, mental health problems, drug and […]
Rural Sparks – Reimagining the Future for LGBT+ Young People in rural Northern Ireland
A project taking place under our wider Positive Sparks initiative, Rural Sparks sees Bytes working with small groups of young people looking to tackle issues specific to the rural communities they live in. Young people living outside of major urban centres experience a range of unique circumstances that are often missed by organisations looking to engage with them. Basic issues […]
Peace Bytes – an SEUPB Case Study
Extract from a case study produced with the Special European Projects Body (SEUPB), 2019. Peace Bytes is delivering a cross-community and cross-border based project that will utilise tech and traditional youth work methodologies to reach out and engage young people in a programme of learning focusing on good relations, personal development and citizenship. The project […]