# Northern Ireland trust to close its doors

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/06/21/northern-ireland-trust-close-doors/
- Published: 2018-06-21T18:24:05+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A Northern Ireland trust which has distributed over £12 million since it was set
up ten years ago will wind up at the end of the year.**

In 2008 the [Building Change Trust](http://www.buildingchangetrust.org) was established
by the Big Lottery with a grant of £10 million as an investment for community capacity
building and promotion of the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland.
The original grant has grown due to investment gains.

The “life-limited” Trust has supported the community and voluntary sector in Northern
Ireland through the development, delivery of, and learning from a range or programmes
including commissioned work, awards programmes and other interventions. 

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Between now and December the resources held by the Trust will be used to support
the community and voluntary sector to achieve more and better collaboration, increased
sustainability and to be a learning sector which identifies, shares and acts on 
lessons of others’ actions. This work will be carried out across five areas:

 * Collaboration
 * Social Finance
 * Social Innovation
 * Inspiring Impact
 * Creating Space for Civic Thinking.

The Trust’s Director of Operations Nigel McKinney told Scope magazine that the board
decided to wind up a long time ago and was not seeking ‘to build an empire.’ He 
said he believed that the trust the organisation had built up would have been eroded
if it had decided to continue, and  that this would have impaired the collaborative
relationships it had built up.

Last week the Trust shared its ‘Agenda for the Future’ report with MPs and other
stakeholders at Westminster, asking for their future commitment to the Voluntary,
Community and Social Enterprise Sector in Northern Ireland.

 * **[N Ireland foundation made grants of £870,000 last year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/06/26/n-ireland-foundation-made-grants-870000-last-year/)**(
   26 June 2018)
 * **[International Fund for Ireland confirms new grants](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/09/21/international-fund-ireland-confirms-new-grants/)**(
   21 September 2018)
 * **[Funding on offer for technology solutions for NI charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/10/23/funding-offer-tech-solutions-charities-northern-ireland/)**(
   23 October 2018)

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