As a registered non-profit, TIDES Training receives grant aid for specific projects. With these opportunities, we can be creative and take risks in designing and delivering cutting edge programs. An additional benefit of housing these funded projects is often we can offer our courses at a reduced fee.

Below is a list of our current projects.

Belfast Citizenship Education Programme

“…To BE a citizen means to enjoy the rights necessary for agency, social and political participation. To ACT as a citizen involves fulfilling the full potential of the status.”

In partnership with other leading local community organisations working across Belfast City, TIDES is responsible for delivering training in this exciting new citizenship education project. The aims of which are to contribute to the building of positive relations in Belfast as a direct and lasting result of the citizenship learning journey undertaken by participants. 245 plus people will undertake two accredited citizenship qualifications (Good Relations and Civic Leadership & Understanding Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship) which cover

• Politics and Democratic Choice
• Civic Responsibility
• Human Rights
• City Governance
• The Impact of Sectarianism and Racism

The approach of the Belfast Citizenship Education programme is to work with existing local good relations initiatives and to support the development of citizenship amoung a diverse array of people in all areas of Belfast.

Breakout Project

Labour Mobility: Level 2 Open College Network

The Breakout Project was developed by Mr Colin Craig, of TIDES Training, and Mr Billy Robinson, formerly the director of Counteract. Following a series of project initiatives in Ballymena, Fermanagh and Belfast on the problems caused by permanent flagging and murals, a number of issues revolving around the mobility of labour in these areas was brought into sharp focus.

Following an initial pilot program we received substantial funding from the International Fund for Ireland for the Breakout Project.

There are 4 strands to the Breakout Project:

• Delivering the Labour Mobility OCN II course to unemployed people.
• Training those working with unemployed people to deliver the Labour Mobility Course through a Training of Trainers.
• Working with local businesses to empower them to employ local people long term unemployed.
• Developing a partnership with the Department of Education Library.

Through this funding the Labour Mobility Course evolved.

The Labour Mobility Course is a 15 hour accredited NI Open College Network Level II training programme that will help prepare you for working in today’s job market. This is a practical, experiential course that uses activities, and discussions to help participants address barriers that prevent them from seeking a full range of employment possibilities.

The course will give participants the skills to understand:

• Changing local labour market.
• Diversity & difference in the local labour market.
• Methods of handling conflict in the workplace.
• Positive interpersonal communication.

TIDES Training aims to empower local communities through capacity building, conflict management and labour mobility training.

The 7th Generation Project

“To be in Leadership is to take responsibility for our decisions seven generations into the future” -Great Law Of The Iroquois

Vision: Our vision is to create a sustainable ecology of community that is built upon interdependence, diversity, transformation, equity, abundance and self-responsibility.

Seeds of the project: What are the tools and skills that we need to build within us to be able to “be the change we want to see”. We, as young adults, need to take on the leadership responsibilities that have befallen our generation. We are the generation that cannot escape the “inconvenient truth” that we cannot simply go on destroying the ecology of the planet that gives us life.

So what is the Seventh Generation Project? The Seventh Generation Project is seeking to provide time and space for participants to be able to develop knowledge, learn skills, have experiences to build both personal and professional relationships that enable them to make their own choices as to how to live on the earth in a way that sustains all life and so themselves.

Please visit the website for more information: http://7thgenerationproject.ning.com

The Seventh Generation Project has been funded by Different Tracks and the Community Relations Council.