Persistent ambiguity around how expressions of racism in graffiti and signage are responded to has led to an unwillingness to categorise materials as racist hate crime, a lack of clarity on responsibility, and an effective veto for paramilitary organisations for removal of hate graffiti or signage.

Six years into the Department for Health’s Protect Life 2 Strategy, the rates of suicide in NI show no sign of decreasing. Read the New Script campaign’s response to the All-Party Group on Suicide Prevention’s inquiry into funding 👉 www.nlb.ie/investigatio...

This year’s World Book Day theme invites us to Go All In — and there is no better time to go all in on stories that heal, empower, and transform. The Rest of the Story: Transforming Trauma to Voice, Agency, and Leadership (2025) is more than an anthology. It is a social movement in book form.

👏 Huge thanks to everyone who responded to our digital action on the Department of Health’s Consultation on a Statutory Duty of Candour! Because of you, the call for both individual and organisational statutory duties of candour could not be ignored.

“Strategy without measurable public reporting is simply rhetoric, and a fundamental failure in accountability.” Thanks to the Impartial Reporter for covering this important story on failures to publish mental health data. Read the full article here 👉 www.impartialreporter.com/news/2588094...

When we look after each other and the ground under our feet, amazing things happen. 🌱 We’re delighted to be working with Newhill Youth & Community Centre and the web of community growers and rewilders in Upper Springfield - so many ways our outdoor spaces support our communities to heal. ❤️

“Let the song of love run through your soul, let it make each cell anew.” At the launch of the Rest of the Story anthology in @themacbelfast.bsky.social in October last year, New Script activist Sean Fitz read his poem ‘Take a Chance’, which opens this powerful collection of writing and art.

“Without data, MLAs cannot scrutinise performance. Public spending cannot be assessed for value. Inequalities cannot be identified or addressed and strategy cannot be measured or improved.” Thanks to Derry Now for covering our call for transparency in mental health data ahead of Monday’s debate.

“This is a housing crisis. In times of crisis, you need to act fast.” Thanks to @irishnews.com for covering the hard work of the Take Back the City activists making the Mackie’s site a sustainable place for communities to thrive. Read the full article here 👉 www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Last Friday, we held our first DAR drop-in session in collaboration with the Kind Economy and CATU Belfast. DAR is a men’s support and community group created by Kind Economy and CATU to support migrant and refugee men in Belfast, particularly around housing, isolation, and access to services.

This afternoon, the Assembly will debate mental health data, activists from New Script welcome this debate and will be watching closely. To find out more about the issues around secrecy in mental health data, you can read our previous blog on the subject here 👉 www.nlb.ie/blog/40/2023...

‘Our minds are not brittle! or rigid, but dynamic and responsive… To reverse the mental-illness epidemic we need less rigid classification, and more curiosity and kindness, humility and hope.” - Dr. Gavin Francis www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

“What the neighbourhoods around the Girdwood site really needed, then and now, was social housing.” Read Elizabeth DeYoung’s response to the news of a £22 million investment in the Girdwood Community Hub can be found in @andytownnews.bsky.social here 👉 belfastmedia.com/mala-poist-g...

“Unless the Hillsborough Law, or any other law or policy change is fit for purpose, in the eyes of families, in their experience, they won’t accept it.” - Prof. Phil Scraton speaking powerfully at the Belfast launch of the ‘Candour & Communities’ exhibition.

After the landowners have let it sit vacant for >20 years, the local community are taking steps to build a thriving space there 🌱 The community have been looking after the land on Mackie’s, improving biodiversity, and now building a space that people can enjoy until homes can be built around it 🏠

Heartbroken, sad, angry, inspired, rooted, connected & determined 🩵 Some of the emotions this brave group of activists are feeling as we embark on a vital new play about mental health services with Louise Mathews & Paula McFetridge at Kabosh! Thanks @themacbelfast.bsky.social for hosting us!

Private rents in Belfast have risen by more than 50% over the last five years. This current situation is unsustainable. Families are being forced into paying extortionate rent because of a lack of social and affordable housing, then being pushed into homelessness by unaffordable rent increases.

“The extent of conflicts of interest among these panel and task force members reveals how important it is to examine the systemic and institutional practices that allow for these conflicts.” DSM-5 psychiatrists received $14m in funding from pharmaceutical industry. www.bmj.com/content/384/...

New Script activists are looking forward to attending this event this afternoon! Looking forward to learning from the fights of @hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social, @chinookjustice.bsky.social and others to secure truth and accountability.

“In the absence of democratic participation, we are left with continuous stories of cases, knee-jerk reactions, passing blame around, and soundbites from decision-makers.” @unisonni.bsky.social Read all about the launch of VIEW in today’s @irishnews.com 👉 www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

Last week, activists from the #TakeBacktheCity campaign came together to plan for the year ahead! Lots of ideas for the Mackie’s plans, pressuring those in power to use public land for public housing, and building diverse and resilient communities 🌱 Find out more at takebackthecity.ie 🔗

Interested in #public #health? Trade union leaders and civic society campaigners as well as journalists took part in a discussion in #Belfast. viewdigital.org/latest-issue... @kellieturtle.bsky.social @ppr-org.bsky.social @brianone.bsky.social

Campaigning for Participation and Transformation. New Script activists are looking forward to speaking at this VEEP online event, organised by Community Development and Health Network and Community Development Ireland! 📅 Tuesday 3rd February ⏰ 12-2pm 📍 Zoom

Our #KindEconomy chefs are busy from week to week, catering events held by friends and allies across the city. They are an opportunity to share the talents of the chefs, but also to share some of their journeys here. Find out more about joining the Kind Economy 👉 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...

New Script were thrilled to be in attendance at the launch of the new issue of @viewdigital.bsky.social this morning, on defending our public health system. 🩺 Important conversations looking at our joint fight against privatisation, and growing inequalities in health for the most vulnerable.

Engaging and urgent discussion around growing health inequalities and creeping privatisation at the launch of @viewdigital.bsky.social issue - on safeguarding public healthcare in the North. Powerful contributions from Patricia McKeown (UNISON NI), Sara Boyce (@ppr-org.bsky.social) and others

🚨Important warning from End Deportations Belfast (@enddbelfast.bsky.social)⤵ Anti-racist group in Northern Ireland concerned that racist violence was being used by paramilitaries for recruitment. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

An urgent report from @irrnews.bsky.social found that the state response to the riots in Summer 2024 failed to take into serious account the riots’ causes and consequences, and downplayed the anti-immigration racism and Islamophobia. Find the full report here 👉 irr.org.uk/article/poli...

We agree with Communities Minister Gordon Lyons that we need to use public land to tackle the growing housing crisis! 🧱 So why is more than 20 acres of public land lying vacant in Belfast’s area of highest housing need? 🤔 Find our plans for Mackie’s at takebackthecity.ie

“The Hillsborough law must leave the Commons with the families’ support.” - @hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social Families in the New Script campaign stand in solidarity with Hillsborough families campaigning for state accountability. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Thanks to Friends of the Earth NI for asking the Kind Economy to cater your event this weekend! This was a great opportunity to build our networks of solidarity, to share some of the experiences of asylum journeys to NI, and of course to share the talent of our chefs!! 💛 www.nlb.ie/take-action/...

The number of people on the housing waiting list is about to hit 50,000 📈 but the Department for Communities keep missing their own target of just 2,000 new social homes a year 📉

“A new report […] reveals a near-total absence of transportation support the Education Authority had claimed is available for displaced children, many of whom are classed as homeless.” Read more about our latest investigation in @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/global/world...

“We cannot allow a system that is meant to help and support people to instead continue to ignore their rights.” Before Christmas, New Script organiser Lisa Morrison wrote a blog for @madintheuk.bsky.social detailing the stark findings of an international survey on ECT and women.

“With low reported efficacy and high rates of adverse effects, coercion, and inadequate information, it’s unsurprising that only 15% of women… would choose ECT again.” Lisa Morrison’s blog for @madintheuk.bsky.social details the stark findings of an international survey on ECT and women.

Every day, homeless families across the north are being placed into temporary accommodation by the Housing Executive. These moves are often many miles away from their communities, at very short notice, and with little or no choice to decline.

Nollaig na mBan Shona Daoibh! 💛 Huge thanks to all the women who’ve contributed so much of their time, skills, and knowledge to PPR’s organising over the past year! Let’s go again in 2025 ✊

“As a survivor myself of both abuse and ECT, these women’s voices haunt me. I don’t want anyone else to feel this way.” Before Christmas, New Script organiser Lisa Morrison wrote a blog for @madintheuk.bsky.social detailing the stark findings of an international survey on ECT and women.

PPR organisers and Anaka members Soma and Twasul spoke to @irishnews.com before Christmas about their experiences of leaving Sudan, seeking safety in Belfast, and about the power of solidarity and community organising 💛 You can read the full article here 👇 www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

These are the voices we need to hear, not the far-right and opportunistic politicians chipping away at the right to claim asylum, a right that has saved millions upon millions of lives post WWII. More resistance, more community, more kindess, more solidarity & more internationalism for 2026. [1/n]

Throughout 2025, the Kind Economy countered hatred and hostility with kindness and solidarity! Take a look at some of the work our activists did this year ✊ Read the full end-of-year blog here 👇 www.nlb.ie/blog/270/kin...

2025 was a busy year for the Take Back the City team! Take a look at some of our campaigning for public housing this year 🏠 Read the full blog here 👇 www.takebackthecity.ie/news/35/anot...

The New Script campaign has been growing rapidly in 2025, take a look at just some of what we’ve been up to! Read the full end-of-year blog here 👇 www.nlb.ie/blog/268/no-...

Throughout 2025, the Kind Economy countered hatred and hostility with kindness and solidarity! Take a look at some of the work our activists did this year ✊ Read the full end-of-year blog here 👇 www.nlb.ie/blog/270/kin...

2025 was a busy year for the Take Back the City team! Take a look at some of our campaigning for public housing this year 🏠 Read the full blog here 👇 www.takebackthecity.ie/news/35/anot...

The New Script campaign has been growing rapidly in 2025, take a look at just some of what we’ve been up to! Read the full end-of-year blog here 👇 www.nlb.ie/blog/268/no-...

PPR is now closed until Monday 5th January! We hope everyone has a peaceful break, and we will see you all again in the new year ✊

All of PPR’s staff and Management Committee express our deepest condolences to Annie McCormack and her family on the passing of her father Vincent, husband of PPR’s founder, the late Inez McCormack.

“We need a greater supply of social homes so that we can begin to meet existing housing need. Spending time and resources tinkering, [does] not get us any closer to achieving this.” Read PPR’s recent blog series, looking at the DfC’s Fundamental Review of Allocations 👇 www.nlb.ie/blog/254/a-f...

"Data paints a picture of what's happening in society and Northern Ireland doesn't have that picture." Thanks to @mlchealth.bsky.social & BBC NI for speaking to us and covering this important story, watch BBC Newsline at 6:30 this evening to find out more! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...