2022 PeacePlayers Impact Report FINAL - Flipbook - Page 27
PeacePlayers Northern Ireland is awarded core funding
status by the Northern Ireland Community Relations
Council, marking the first time an organization using
sport for reconciliation received this status in Northern
Ireland.
“THIS WAS ABOUT SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST THE FUNDING
(…ALTHOUGH WE WERE AND CONTINUE TO BE VERY GRATEFUL
FOR IT), THE RECOGNITION WAS MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT. TO
HAVE OUR WORK AND CONTRIBUTION ACKNOWLEDGED IN THIS
WAY, BY THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL, ESSENTIALLY
PROVIDED EXTERNAL VALIDATION OF OUR WORK AND SET
US ON THE TRACK TO BECOMING RECOGNIZED AS THE GOTO ORGANIZATION FOR PEACEBUILDING THROUGH SPORT IN
NORTHERN IRELAND.”
2016
2019
GARETH HARPER
Managing Director, PeacePlayers Nothern Ireland
PeacePlayers Northern Ireland records
its highest ever number of annual
participants at 2,350.
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