Community Life - Season 1

Community Life - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes4
DatesJun 8, 2023 - Jun 8, 2023

Episodes

Fermanagh, Belfast, Cloughmills, Newry
Season 1Episode 129 min

Fermanagh, Belfast, Cloughmills, Newry

Ever wondered what people get up to in their spare time? Community Life highlights the sometimes surprising and always inspiring things going on in community groups.

Barra Best presents from Fermanagh where he joins a group of cavers as they get down and dirty to retrieve litter from some of the county's underground caves. Connor Phillips goes on a mission to find out if new chatty benches in east Belfast are helping to get people talking. Gyasi Sheppy is challenged to pick up the flute he hasn't played since school and join an orchestra that performs only video games music. Lynette Fay is bowled over when she meets the Cloughmills community leading the way in sustainability.

In the weekly appeal on behalf of local charities, Vinny Hurrell meets some of those working with Women's Aid Armagh and Down.

Jun 8, 2023
Londonderry, Ballymoney, Belfast, Donaghadee
Season 1Episode 229 min

Londonderry, Ballymoney, Belfast, Donaghadee

From people doing good to those with a passion for the unusual, Community Lives will make you rethink how you spend your spare time.

Barra Best is in Londonderry, where he learns about the group of carers who meet to knit tiny hats for newborn babies at the city's Altnagelvin Hospital. Cate Conway tries her hand at oval car racing with the Ballymoney club enthusiasts. Jo Scott meets the people who've found a place to belong at Belfast's Street Soccer, and Anne Marie Wallace proves she's game for a laugh when she takes on the stand-up challenge.

In the weekly appeal on behalf of local charities, Vinny Hurrell tries his hand at being a guide for the NI Blind Golf Association.

Jun 8, 2023
Dungannon, Belfast, Royal Hillsborough
Season 1Episode 329 min

Dungannon, Belfast, Royal Hillsborough

The sometimes surprising and often inspiring stories of what's going on in community groups across Northern Ireland. Barra Best presents from Dungannon, a town whose population has been bolstered by the arrival of people from East Timor in recent years. Jennie Browne meets some of the newest residents and hears how they're influencing life in the county Tyrone town, but also how important their collective cultural identity remains. She attends a family baptism where 500 guests are invited. 

Barra has a trick up his sleeve when he joins the members of a circus school for older people. Connor Phillips is with the dads who meet up to support one another and Cate Conway is in her pet heaven when she attends a competition for the furriest of furry cats. 

In the weekly appeal on behalf of local charities, Vinny Hurrell hears how Aware helps people struggling with depression and poor mental health. 

Jun 8, 2023
Belfast, Newtownabbey, Newry, Ballymoney
Season 1Episode 429 min

Belfast, Newtownabbey, Newry, Ballymoney

Great stories of people who do things that make others' lives better. We meet the vets who give up their free time to look after the dogs of homeless people. Anne Marie Wallace spends a night with the Street Paws team who make sure these much-loved pets are kept in tip-top condition. Then there's the successful barber who, despite his tough childhood, is giving a hand up to young people where he grew up. Cate Conway finds out that Jay Millar's barbering classes are helping turn young lives around in north Belfast. 

Jo Scott dons her runners to try to keep up with Newry's answer to the Road Runner, who's been lapping people in the town for seven decades. Not to be outdone, Barra Best tries his hand at medieval sword fighting with a group on Belfast's Donegall Pass. 

In the weekly appeal on behalf of local charities, Vinny Hurrell is at CAN's brand new purpose-built centre which is revolutionising the lives of young people and adults with learning difficulties. 
 

Jun 8, 2023

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