Seeds of Hope

The Club together with the Rotary Clubs of San Antonio, Dublin and The Hague jointly initiated the Seeds of Hope Project at Corrymeela.  Following the Pilot and the successful application for a Rotary International $158.000.00 Global Grant the Programme has been running over the last year.

3 Residentials for young people have taken place so far at the Corrymeela Peace Centre in Ballycastle in September, December and March. 

• September was all about ‘welcoming and nurturing relationships’
• December was ‘understanding the dynamics of relationships' and
• March was ‘explaining the dynamics of conflict affected societies’

There was further activity in the spring and summer of ’26 in Residential and Contact Seminars and one of a number of social action plans is the creation of resources for the young people to become ambassadors for peace building.

Overall in taking the quantitative measures of success there has been 100% self -reported increase in building new friendships, learning about peace building and gaining useful knowledge to take into careers. Indeed five new jobs from the cohort have been achieved in peace building/youth work and the private sector.

More information can be found here.