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Criteria for membership of Belfast Interface Project

Group membership
Membership is open to community groups/organisations which fulfil all of the following criteria:
  Have a constitution;
  Are locally managed and locally accountable;
  Are situated and active within one or more communities physically located at an interface between nationalist and unionist segregated communities (as outlined briefly in the appendix);
  Are actively addressing one or more of the following issues within a context that recognises the need to build capacity both within and between interface communities as key elements within these tasks:
  - social, economic and environmental disadvantage;
  - intercommunity tension, intimidation and violence;
  - restricted access to facilities and services perceived as being located within the ‘other’ community;
Subscribe to BIP’s mission statement
Download the application form for Group Membership

Associate membership
Membership will be invited from statutory, voluntary and funding organisations which:
  Are actively seeking to meet needs within interface communities;
  Have a remit that includes policy development in relation to interface areas;
Agree with BIP’s mission statement.  
Download the application form for Associate Membership

Individual membership
Membership will be invited from individuals who:
  Have demonstrated a commitment to both inter and intra-community capacity-building in addressing issues of concern in one or more interface areas;
Agree with BIP’s mission statement
 Download the application form for Individual Membership

   
 
     
Building towards peaceful co-existence in interface areas