Training & Employment

Provide, promote and facilitate education and training to help individuals to reach their potential.

Childcare & Family Support

Provide high quality day care and after schools services to local children.

Culture & Arts

To provide or facilitate arts and culture activities that will empower people of all ages in North Belfast.

Youth Development

Provide the opportunity for young people to grow up and develop social and life skills in a safe and secure environment.

Happy Days

Happy Days

Community Inclusion

Community Inclusion involves empowering communities and this is very important to Ashton.

Health & Wellbeing

Provides health and well-being services that reduce stress and encourage development of positive, healthy and resilient lives.

Latest News & Updates

All the latest news from Ashton. Find out about new courses or events happening in your area.

Welcome to Ashton

Supporting North Belfast

Ashton is a social enterprise and development trust which seeks to make North Belfast a better place for its residents to live and prosper. It does this through the provision of services, employment, training and community development. Ashton has grown over the last twenty years to the extent where it now employs over 250 people and has an annual turnover in excess of £7m.

Registered Charity

Ashton is registered as a charity with the Inland Revenue and is a company limited by guarantee. The company was established by local residents and is controlled by a voluntary Board who ensure that it stays true to its mission and vision. The Board employs staff to manage the company on a day to day basis. Profits are not distributed but are ploughed back into further Ashton’s regeneration objectives. Ashton Supporting North Belfast.

Prevention of all forms of Modern Slavery

Ashton Community Trust are committed to the prevention of all forms of Modern Slavery, both in our business and in our supply chains. 

Contact Ashton

Kinderkids Daycare (Cliftonville Road)

Sharon Rooney/Andrea Sammut, Managers, 22 Cliftonville Road, Belfast BT14 6JX

Tel: 028 90 749146

E-mail: sharon.rooney@ashtoncentre.com or andrea.sammut@ashtoncentre.com

Kinderkids Daycare (McSweeney Centre)

Charlene Foster, Manager, Kinderkids Daycare, McSweeney Centre, Henry Place, BT15 2AY

Tel: 028 95 219830

E-mail: charlene.foster@ashtoncentre.com

You can also contact Fionnuala Black, Operations Manager Childcare & Family Support, or Christine McKeown, Head of Childcare & Family Support, Ashton Centre, 5 Churchill Street, Belfast, BT15 2BP

Tel: 028 90742 255

E-mail: fionnuala.black@ashtoncentre.com or christine.mckeown@ashtoncentre.com

Family Support

Lower North Belfast Family Support Hub

Tel: (028) 90 749986

E: edith.mcmanus@ashtoncentre.com

Web page: Lower North Belfast Family Support Hub

Ashton Early Intervention Family Support Project

E: caroline.mcilwee@ashtoncentre.com

E: alana.mckeown@ashtoncentre.com

 

Community Inclusion

Community Development Coordinator

Tel: 028 90 742 255

Web page: Community Inclusion

Ashton Health & Wellbeing

Ashton Clinic

Tel: (028) 90 221 022

Alliance Avenue

Tel: (028) 95 438 707

E: bohinfo@ashtoncentre.com

Web page: Bridge of Hope

Website: https://bridgeofhope.support/

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New Lodge Youth Centre

Tel: 90751358

E: sean.mcmullan@ashtoncentre.com

Web page: New Lodge Youth Centre

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Ashton Training & Employment

General T&E Enquiries

Tel: (028) 90 742 255

E: arlene.moody@ashtoncentre.com

Belfast Works

Tel: (028) 90 742 255

E: arlene.moody@ashtoncentre.com

Web page: Belfast Works

Website: Belfast Works Contact Page

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CALL/ICT Project (Essential Skills)

Tel: (028) 90 742 255

Contact: Angela McAteer

E: angela.mcateer@ashtoncentre.com

Web page: CALL/ICT Project

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North Belfast Mens Shed

Tel: (028) 90 322 289

E: mensshed@ashtoncentre.com

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Communities In Transition (CIT) Health and Wellbeing

Contact: Ciara Rea

Tel: (028) 90 742 255

E: ciara.rea@ashtoncentre.com

 

This Certification is applicable to Ashton Centre, Mc Sweeney Centre, Cliftonville Road and Alliance Avenue