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...

“I feel that we were abandoned as a family... Mental health services at the moment are completely failing.” Huge thanks to @viewdigital.bsky.social for covering Mary & Conall’s story, and to Mary for her tireless campaigning for truth & accountability 💙 viewdigital.org/a-mothers-fi...

No one should be without a home in Belfast in 2025. On Thursday night, Kind Economy and Take Back the City activists joined the People’s Kitchen Outreach Team, witnessing the sharp end of the housing crisis on the streets of Belfast.

No More Ticking Boxes – Families have a right to truth & accountability! Great to connect with Mo Mansfield from @inquest-org.bsky.social 🙏 Very useful updates on their campaign for a National Oversight Mechanism & on the Hillsborough Law 💙 Check out their work here 👉 www.inquest.org.uk

Did you join us last Thursday in Redeemer for our solidarity event for Sudan? 🇸🇩 If not — our friends and activists from Sudan have written about the night on our website, looking at why and how we held this urgent and powerful event ❤️ Read them at nlb.ie/blog

The Department for Communities has finally started implementing some of the ‘Fundamental Review of Allocations’, which changes the way social housing in NI is allocated. But what does this mean for real people, almost 50,000 of whom are currently on the social housing waiting list?

Tomorrow night! ❤️ Anaka & PPR are hosting a Solidarity Gathering for Sudan 🇸🇩 with Fundraising. Join us to hear updates on mass displacement, genocide, and ongoing wars, and the impact on Sudanese families in Sudan and abroad.

#KindEconomy activists were busy this weekend!! On Saturday, they were in Ballymena for a workshop with Collaboration for Change 💛 And on Sunday, they took part in the Women of Colour Belfast Pop-Up Market at the Bullitt hotel in town! 💛 A great weekend full of kindness and solidarity!

New Script activists attended the Critical Voices Network Ireland conference in Cork earlier this month, to discuss the need to create brave spaces for collective healing. Read our blog to find out more about the key messages of our presentation👇 www.nlb.ie/blog/252/mov...

On Tuesday, at the UNESCO Learning City Conversations in the MAC, writers from our Rest of the Story anthology shared readings from their work and offered profound reflections on healing, voice, agency, and leadership. You can find your copy of the book here 👉 bit.ly/3LFDVrf

The Rest of the Story anthology is a ‘radical act of reclamation’, according to Jo Watson, founder of A Disorder 4 Everyone and editor of the ‘Drop the Disorder’ book series 💙

Have you heard about the plans to build houses on this wee piece of land?? Read all about Mackie’s Phase 2 and have your say at takebackthecity.ie

“Writing my story helped me to heal.” At the launch of The Rest of the Story, we were honoured to be able to hear from so many of the amazing writers from the anthology, who transformed their trauma into voice and agency. Well done to all who leant their creativity to the project 💙

The final blog in our serious from 2022 looking at the human rights failings in asylum accommodation, looks at the right to housing. In this part of the series, families report overcrowding, lack of communal space, and lack of access to hygiene, all made worse by the length of their stays

Led by @libertyhq.bsky.social, almost 300 organisations across the UK have come together to defend the vital importance of the European Convention on Human Rights in protecting every person in the UK. 1/3 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us on Wednesday evening @themacbelfast.bsky.social for the launch of The Rest of the Story! A beautiful evening with our readers, their family and friends, and all the allies of our New Script community, celebrating their creativity and connection 💙

Launch day is here! 📖 Super excited for the launch of The Rest of the Story anthology this evening, its going to be a full house and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone 💙 Many thanks to @themacbelfast.bsky.social as always for hosting us!

Have you seen the new Mackie’s plans? 👀 At the end of the summer, #TakeBacktheCity launched Phase 2 of the Mackie’s masterplan, focusing on a small section of the site that we think is the perfect place to start building homes NOW! View the plans here👇 www.takebackthecity.ie/take-action/...

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

📢 Launching this week! 📢 The Rest of the Story anthology is a “deeply moving read” and a powerful example of the healing power of creativity 📖 Join us for the launch this Wednesday 29th October at @themacbelfast.bsky.social 💙 Register here 👉 pprproject.wufoo.com/forms/rby917...

🚨Don’t miss the launch of ‘The Rest of the Story’!🚨 Join #NewScript for the launch of our new anthology, with a special evening of storytelling, poetry, art, connection, and community! 📅 Wed 29th October ⏰ 7-9pm 📍 @themacbelfast.bsky.social Register here 👇 pprproject.wufoo.com/forms/rby917...

Be part of a night that honours the healing power of creativity, and the transformation of trauma into voice, agency, and leadership, as we launch our new anthology. An evening not to be missed 💙 Register here 👇 pprproject.wufoo.com/forms/rby917...

In October 2022, members of the #KindEconomy living in asylum hotel accommodation compiled evidence of human rights failings they experienced. The sixth part in a blog series looking at this evidence, focuses on the ways in which living in these hotels impacted on their dignity.

#NewScript activists are in Norwich today for the @bpsofficial.bsky.social Community Psychology Festival ‘Untold Stories - Tales of Community Strength’! Christiana, Magz and Anne will be there to tell the stories of the amazing work being done in our community. www.bps.org.uk/event/9th-co...

Join us for the launch of ‘The Rest of the Story’ — a special evening celebrating storytelling, poetry, art, music, connection, and community! 💙 📅 Wednesday 29th October ⏰ 7-9pm 📍 @themacbelfast.bsky.social

‘Can you give me land?’ Communities Minister Gordon Lyons aims to ask his colleagues in the Executive for land to build social housing very soon. We know the perfect place to start 👀 www.takebackthecity.ie/take-action/... www.itv.com/news/utv/202...

This morning, #NewScript hosted ‘Chemical Imbalance or Power Imbalance’ as part of Féile na Carraige. We explored how to hold power to account for harm in the mental health system, and how creativity & community can offer real alternatives. Find out more at www.nlb.ie/campaigns/me...

Our Autumn Social is this Thursday! Enjoy an evening of community, conversation & celebration with fellow @pilsni.bsky.social members & supporters. 🍂 Reserve your spot before registration closes: 🔗 pilsni.org/events/pils-autumn-social-2025/ #HumanRights #PublicInterestLitigation #HRA #HRA25

Are you joining us next week at Féile na Carraige? 👀 Join us on Monday for #NewScript ‘Chemical Imbalance or Power Imbalance?’ workshop! Join us on Thursday for workshops and panels on Feminism, Internationalism and Solidarity! And join us on Friday for Feirm an Phobail 2.0!

💙 From Ticking Boxes to Making Boxes! What if ‘chemical imbalance’ isn’t the real story, what if it’s really about power imbalance? 🗓 Monday 13th | 10am–12pm 📍 Glór na Móna Let’s reclaim our stories — together. Register now to save your spot! 👇 pprproject.wufoo.com/forms/r1jzlt...

‘Commonly referred to as “disorder”, “riots” and “racist thuggery”, this violence has been downplayed and normalized by the media and public officials.’ Read our latest guest blog from Amanda Lubit, an academic studying racist violence in NI 👇 www.nlb.ie/blog/249/res...

Mental distress is fuelled by abuses of power, inequality, poverty, and discrimination — yet the system ignores these roots. Join #NewScript activists to hear about this growing community movement to flip the script on mental health. Register here 👇 pprproject.wufoo.com/forms/r1jzlt...

Another Win for #TakeBacktheCity! After being placed in a hostel with their child our activist, with our support, took on the Housing Executive and won! They have now secured safe and suitable accommodation 🏠 There is power in unity ✊ takebackthecity.ie

What a privilege to spend time with the amazing youth workers @springboardopps.bsky.social this week, sharing their #NewScripts for Mental Health — rooted in respect, connection, and community 💙 Find out more about New Script 👇 www.nlb.ie/campaigns/me...

“Tackling economic insecurity and rebuilding community is the ticket back to a politics that builds on positivity.” New polling from @hopenothate.org.uk highlights some progressive ways out of current anxieties and division across the UK 👇 hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hope/

Congrats to the NI Counselling Forum on 21 years! 🎉 They’ve backed #Give5 as we discussed the campaign’s future. Strong support for new conversations on mental health, fairer access to counselling & broader healing options. #ReduceOverprescribing #Step2

‘They now live surrounded by boxes. […] “I’ve had a drop in my mental health to the point where I’m struggling mentally and emotionally.” Article in @theguardian.com looks at the personal, financial, and emotional toll of ‘no-fault evictions’👇 www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...