Listen Share Change

About the Project

Listen Share Change is a partnership between Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Verbal. A four year Peace IV-funded project running until 2022, bringing communities together with shared reading and conversation.

The aim of EU Peace IV funded projects is to underline the EU's commitment to peace and stability in the region. We aim to build positive relations between people

from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. To find out more about the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) you can visit their website here

Listen Share Change uses the Reading Rooms model to address the needs of Housing Executive tenants across Northern Ireland. Now in the second year of the project, we have worked with over 50 communities, over 350 participants and supported the creation of a network of 45 Neighbourhood Champions.

How to get involved

We want communities all across Northern Ireland to be part of this project and join a growing network of Neighbourhood Champions, volunteering to lead shared reading and conversation settings and developing as community leaders.

By listening, laughing and sharing stories together people will feel a closer part of their community and more able to influence change. They will become a key part of decisions and a force for good in the way different community perceive and interact with each other.

The aim is to build positive relations through stories, conversation and shared experience between people from all different backgrounds.

To request a meeting with our team of regional coordinators or nominate a community group or volunteer to become a Neighbourhood Champion, please get in touch using the relevant contact details below.

MEET THE TEAM

NIHE Regional Coordinators

Eamonn (South Antrim, Mid & East Antrim, West, Causeway)

[email protected]

Gus Moore (North Belfast, South & East Belfast, West Belfast & Shankill, Lisburn/Castlereagh)
[email protected] - 07825 140 749

Sean Brennan (North Down & Ards, South, South Down, South West, Mid-Ulster)

[email protected] - 07884 050 909

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Children In Need: Reading Rooms – Partner feedback: Kinship Care 2015

Verbal worked in partnership with Kinship Care in 2015, delivering Reading Rooms with young people in care. Here is what Leanne from the Kinship Care Support Service had to say about the programme.
Children in Need: Reading Rooms Case Study with young people

Verbal worked in partnership with local organisations in 2015, delivering Reading Rooms with young people in care. We asked young people what their experience of the programme was.
Verbal’s Collaboration with the Northern Ireland Public Health Research Network (NIPHRN)

Verbal are collaborating with NIPHRN and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service to develop a Shared Reading programme to support ambulance control room staff.

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