2024-2026 Programme

Our current programme aims to build on the learning and successes of our previous programme. We are enthusiastically joined by a new cohort of students from Ballinamore Community School & Enniskillen Royal Grammar School.

The project started with a team-building trip to Lough Key Forest Park in which the students took part in orienteering and Boda Borg (a puzzle quest).

Students will undertake six meet ups to discover shared pasts through the medium of art, which we hope will culminate in the creation of a book.

This time, we have engaged with the charity Narrative 4, who promote radical empathy through story exchanges. The students will undertake a story exchange, to learn about the peers in a first-hand way.

Alongside cultural awareness trips to Belfast & Dublin, the students will also take part in a two day Peer-Mentorship Conference, presenting what they have learned and encouraging dialogue amongst their peers.

The new element of the programme will be ‘Digital Wellness through Sport in Rural Border Counties’. With digital technology and social media well established in everyday life, we will use a multi-sport initiative as a vehicle to address topics with young people related to online safety, digital literacy, cyberbulling prevention and managing screen time to promote overall wellbeing.

Keep checking back to this page for updates from our schools programme.

Previous Programme

Students from Ballinamore Community (Catholic) School and the Enniskillen Royal Grammar (Protestant) School engaged in a series of workshops where young people looked at Good Relations, Cultural Diversity, Equality, Respect, Health & Wellbeing. This concluded with cultural awareness trips to both Belfast & Dublin.

A key objective of this project was to promote peace and avoid conflict within the community.
By reducing the likelihood of youth participation in dissident activity, we seek to enhance the character and productivity of our young people, adding to the growth and sustainability of both Leitrim and Fermanagh.

The the previous programme,  8 meet ups were held between Ballinamore Community School and Enniskillen Royal Grammar School.  The meet ups gave the children an opputunity to explore the present, share hobbies, interests, and build friendships.

For the Belfast trip, the students visited the Black Mountain Shared Space Project – where the pupils could see the outstanding work being undertaken by the Project, a Cross-Community partnership operating across a contentious interface in the West Belfast area. They have worked to build relationships on both sides of the dividing Peace Wall. The Pupils then had the opportunity to explore Belfast and see the Peace walls, with a tour starting on the Shankhill Road, then the Falls Road exploring history and culture diversity. 

Dublin – A visit to the War Memorial, Island Bridge. The gardens there  are dedicated to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who died in the First World War. The name of every single soldier is contained in the sumptuously illustrated Harry Clarke manuscripts in the granite bookrooms.

The Pupils also met the US Ambassador to Ireland Claire D. Cronin. The pupil’s will had the opportunity to ask Ambassador Cronin lots of questions about her role in Ireland, along with a tour of the Ambassador’s Deerfield residence in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.