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Helm helping to keep Longlands Court clean
1st May 2014
Staff
from Helm Housing teamed up with local residents to leave Longlands Court in
Newtownabbey spic and span recently, as part of Keep Northern Ireland
Beautiful’s BIG Spring Clean. The BIG Spring Clean is
Northern Ireland’s largest volunteering campaign aimed at cleaning up local areas
and improving our environment.
Nine
members of Helm’s staff got to...
Medical Banks jobs portal can save Trusts millions
25th April 2014
Hospitals and locums bank on
new app for the future
A revolutionary new technology platform, which enables hospitals and
clinics to slash administration costs and supports locum doctors looking for
employment, could result in multi-million pound savings for the NI health
service. Medical Banks, an online cloud
based system, intelligently matches a locum by...

Belfast Healthy Cities: The Economics of Health
11th April 2014
Belfast
Healthy Cities, the World Health Organisation body in Northern Ireland hosted a
seminar today looking at ‘The Economics of Health.’ Speakers included
representatives from Titanic Quarter, the Belfast Health Trust and Professor David Stuckler from Oxford
University who will address the links between economic policy and public
wellbeing. The Deputy Chief Medica...

BDO supports local arts students
27th March 2014
BDO bringing business to the art world
Local Accountancy firm, BDO Northern Ireland is giving 140 University of Ulster Foundation Art Students the opportunity to create the corporate branding for BDO’s 25th Birthday celebrations later this year. The Firm will provide students with an opportunity to showcase their talents to the bu...

Lord Mayor helps launch Kidspace
27th March 2014
KidsSpace Puts Some Colour into the Heart of the City
Belfast Lord Mayor, Councillor
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has joined Belfast Healthy Cities and some young
participants to launch the latest KidsSpace event, which will take place this
Saturday 29th March, 11am-3pm at CastleCourt shopping centre in Belfast.
The event will transform an empty
shop unit into a c...

SSE Airtricity staff take on Olympic boxer Michael Conlan to help raise millions for Sport Relief
21st March 2014
Brave SSE Airtricity staff
today took on Olympic boxer Michael Conlan to help raise millions of pounds and
change lives for Sport Relief.
The boxer stepped out of the
ring and onto the office floor to encourage more than 100 SSE Airtricity staff
in Northern Ireland to dig deep and raise cash for communities in the UK and
around the world.
SSE Home Nation Ambassador
Michael visi...
First Minister launches ‘Respect your life’ booklet for East Belfast primary school children
21st March 2014
Encouraging
children to make the right decisions and choices can positively impact the
wellbeing of communities and reduce anti-social behaviour – that was the
message today as First Minister Peter Robinson MLA and Helm Housing Manager,
Alison McBride, launched the Children’s Safety Education Foundation booklet
‘Respect your life, your choice’ at Strandtown P...
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SUPPORT PROGRAMME HELPS LOCAL BUSINESSES ACCESS ENERGY OPPORTUNITIES
28th February 2014
Organisations in Newtownabbey
have an opportunity to take part in a new business support programme aimed at connecting
local SME’s, community groups and individuals with new business opportunities
in the energy sector. The North East Sustainable Energy Supply Chain Programme
will include ‘Meet the Buyer’ sessions, mentoring and ‘Best Practice’ visits.
A...
Train your brain with Northern Ireland’s first mobile social quiz app
28th February 2014
Belfast, Northern
Ireland – 28th February 2014: Quiz
fans across the globe can now test their trivia knowledge on the free-to-download
QuizFortune App which was launched today on the iTunes App store and includes
over 100,000 brain teasers.
The
brainchild of Vincent Rainey, a quizmaster with 30 years experience,
QuizFortune has been developed over two years at the comp...

NEW PROGRAMME HELPS LOCAL BUSINESS PLUG INTO ENERGY OPPORTUNITIES
28th January 2014
A new business support programme
aimed at helping local companies in the North Eastern region of Northern
Ireland to plug into the supply chain opportunities in the energy sector was
launched this week. The Supply Chain Programme has identified sustainable energy as one of the most
significant economic growth areas in Northern Ireland and this programme aims
to make that pay off f...