Key contact

Jill Crawford BITC

Jill Crawford

Director, Place Team
jill.crawford@bitcni.org.uk
Tel: (028) 9046 0606

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Investing in your communities

Business has a unique role to play in supporting small firms, helping young people develop and realise their aspirations and regenerating deprived areas to help build capacity, skills and optimism in the future.

Engaging with your local communities can provide  companies with an insight into the hearts and minds of their employees, customers and other stakeholders and so getting involved and making a positive impact on local communities is not only a fundamental part of being a responsible business, but part of a modern business approach to reducing risk.

 

 

What we're working on...

  • Raising young people's aspirations

    We want all young people to fulfil their potential regardless of the place where they live or what school they attend. However, educational attainment remains lower in deprived areas.  The type of neighbourhood in which a young person lives significantly influences their life opportunities.

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  • Regenerating deprived communities

    Business in the Community has played an important part in neighbourhood renewal for many years. Deprived areas will only be regenerated so that sustainable business and communities can both prosper, when shortage of jobs, local services and enterprise are properly addressed. It is crucial that Government, business and communities work in partnership around common objectives to improve local enterprise and entrepreneurship and then take success to scale.

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  • Support for small firms

    Given the preponderance of small firms within the NI economy (some 95% of companies employ fewer than 10 people), this support role and focus on smaller firms and entrepreneurs is significant and, we believe, crucial to the future economic growth and stability of the region.

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  • Mentoring programmes

    Business in the Community works in partnership with the Youth Justice Agency and South Eastern Health and Social care Trust to provide young offenders and care leavers with the opportunity to avail of a bespoke mentoring and work placement programmes.

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  • Business on Board

    Business on Board is a new and exciting web-based matching service – and it’s free! Business on Board is a Business in the Community initiative which matches voluntary and community groups who are seeking new board members with business people keen to join a board and share their skills and expertise.

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