Belfast And Lisburn Community Project

Our Support Forum facilitates a key part of Belfast And Lisburn Community project online community and is a safe space to offer support, ideas and share experiences. The forum is available 24 hours a day. Anyone is able to view posts. In order to post yourself, you need an account and have to be 18...

Belfast And Lisburn Community Project From April to September 2018, 9,673 households presented as homeless in Northern Ireland. The figures come from the first Northern Ireland Homelessness Bulletin published by the Department for Communities (DfC), Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (...

HELPING MEET THE NEEDS OF LOCAL PEOPLE IN CRISIS Walk INN Food Bank is here to help individuals and families in crisis by providing free emergency food as well as support until the appropriate agencies are in a position to assist. Tinned and dried food is collected from the public at supermarkets a...

At different times in your life you may need extra advice and support to help you into work. Whether you are a lone parent, have a disability, leaving school or college, over 50, or simply out of work, there are a number of services and programmes to help you. Leaving school, college or university ...

Universal Credit is a payment to help with your living costs. It's paid monthly - or twice a month for some people in Scotland. You may be able to get it if you're on a low income, out of work or you cannot work. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/image_data/...

What you'll get You may get help with all or part of your rent. There’s no set amount of Housing Benefit and what you get will depend on whether you rent privately or from a council. Council and social housing rent How much you get depends on: * your ‘eligible’ rent * if you have a spare room * you...

Belfast And Lisburn Community Project offers a free service which allows you to find out what benefits you may be entitled to and also estimates how much you could be getting. The calculator, which can be found https://balcproject.org.uk/benefit-entitlement-check/ , gives you these details in the co...

BALCProject Homeless Forum is open to any individual or organisation working with the issues of people who are homeless in Belfast and Lisburn and surrounding areas. While there is much attention to those who are currently street homeless or rough sleeping we recognise that this is only a small, vis...