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EAST BELFAST GROUPS SHARE GRANTS BOOST A unique form of therapy using scuba diving is giving people with learning disabilities in east Belfast a boost to their confidence and mental health, thanks to a grant from Big Lottery Fund. CQUA-PSYCHOTHERAPY has received a £9,156 grant from Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All programme. It is part of a Big Lottery Fund grants roll out today of £761,601 to 86 groups across Northern Ireland. (See separate attachment for a full list of awards) including three groups in the East Belfast area sharing in a total of £28,801 from Awards for All. Acqua-Psychotherapy in east Belfast delivers a unique therapeutic experience to people with learning or physical disabilities using diving. The £9,156 grant is being used to provide aqua therapy sessions for adults with learning difficulties from across Belfast. Christina Cushnahan, psychological coordinator from Acqua-Psychotherapy, said: “Water therapy would be a commonly used tool but using scuba diving is something new that our
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organisation is bringing to Northern Ireland. “We are working with small groups of people with learning disabilities who attend day centres across Belfast. The experience of being in the water regularly and doing something so different that they wouldn’t normally get to is do is exciting for them. I want to spark something inside them that’ll make them feel good and proud of themselves. With the funding we are able to run weekly sessions at the pool and we see improvements every week for the members of the group. I’m in the water with them and talk to them during the activity about how they are feeling. I can see their communication and social skills improving as well. It’s also very relaxing and calming for them. Diving can be seen as a difficult task for anyone and an activity that most
people have never tried before, so when they try it and are able to do it, they feel proud of themselves — that they have accomplished something — and their confidence grows and grows. This confidence stays with them when they leave the pool and helps them take on other challenges in their lives.” Elmgrove Primary School in east Belfast is using the £9,700 grant it received to deliver Barnardo’s training courses. The training will provide parents with information to support their child’s learning and a programme for parents whose children are starting school. The project will be delivered to parents from Elmgrove Primary, Euston Street Primary, Dundela Infants and Sandbrook. The Beth Johnson Foundation – Linking Generations Northern Ireland brings together different generations to build communities for all ages. The £9,945
grant is being used to bring older and younger people together in east Belfast to do activities. The project is linking Kirk House care home and supported housing complex with young people from Gilnahirk Primary School, Our Lady and St Patrick’s College and Scouting and Guides NI. Joanne McDowell, Big Lottery Fund NI Director, said: “The Big Lottery Fund’s NI Awards for All programme funds health, education, environment and community projects that help people bring about positive change in their lives, improve health and well-being, develop skills and create safer communities. The application process is simple and accessible and shall remain so, making it easy for applicants to successfully apply for small pots of funding that can have such a big impact on local communities and lives.”
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