Pictured above with Baroness May Blood,  BMC tutor Ann Pendleton and participants Claire Curran, Helen Jamison, Alison Magill, Elizabeth McGeough, Annmarie McKay, Lorraine Mills, Marian O’Neill, Michelle Porter and Danielle Wilson.

Baroness May Blood recently met with a group of BMC Community Development Students participating in a ‘Women in networking programme’.
This programme is designed to meet the learning needs of a range of community based groups/Organisations in West and East Belfast as well as networking with similar groups partaking in the programme from Maynooth Universtiy.

As a full-time community worker, working from 1993 –1997 for the Greater Shankill Partnership, a community-led regeneration initiative, working to support the social and economic integration of parents with young children, particularly women, Baroness May Blood has a particular connection with the Women in Networking programme and was an inspiration to the group. The Baroness is also a founder member of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition.

All the participants are extremely positive about the programme and would highly recommend it to others in the same situation as themselves.