Healthy Working Lives Conference 2026
The Healthy Working Lives Conference is Northern Ireland’s biggest workplace wellbeing event. It attracts 170+ HR professionals and operational managers to network and explore the challenges and opportunities facing their business in creating a positive and healthy workplace.
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Search begins for Northern Ireland’s most responsible businesses as 2026 Awards open for entries
Business in the Community (BITC) has officially opened entries for the 2026 Responsible Business Awards in Northern Ireland, celebrating organisations that lead the way in responsible and sustainable business practice.
These Awards - in partnership with Henry Brothers - reward and recognise businesses large and small and from every sector who go beyond profit to be a force for good.
Business in the Community calls for business volunteers to support early intervention programmes
Business in the Community Northern Ireland (BITCNI) is urging businesses to enable employees to step forward and volunteer for its impactful early intervention programmes – Time to Read, Time to Code and Time 2 Count.
Currently, just over 300 volunteers support more than 6,000 pupils in 100 schools across Northern Ireland, supporting children to improve their overall ability levels, boost their confidence and self-esteem, and help them achieve their full potential. The programmes help inspire young people about future careers and link the skills they learn in the classroom to different jobs.
Business in the Community’s green schools project awarded SSE Airtricity support
Responsible business network Business in the Community (BITC) is proud to announce that its Generation Green Schools work inspiration initiative has secured funding through the Generation Green Community Fund by SSE Airtricity, one of 56 projects to receive funding across Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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Belfast City Airport Young Minds and Trees Project
In 2025, Belfast City Airport’s Community Fund enabled The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) to delive [...]
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ABP’s Read Meat Sustainability Programme achieving results for NI Farmers
ABP’s £1.5m farmer-led programme aimed at helping beef and lamb producers cut their environmental [...]
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Encirc: a looped walkway for people and nature
Encirc employs almost 2,000 people and each year produces around 3 billion glass containers for lead [...]
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Time to Read and Time 2 Count Training
14 Apr 2026
Are you passionate about helping children succeed? Could you spare just one hour a week to support l [...]
Book NowOpening Doors: Driving social mobility to broaden access to meaningful employment
14 Apr 2026
Opening Doors is an inclusive recruitment campaign that identifies five keys to unlocking employment [...]
Book Now2026 NI Environmental Benchmarking Survey | Opens for entries
14 Apr 2026
The 2026 NI Environmental Benchmarking Survey opens for entries on 14 April 2026. [...]
Book NowSPECIAL EPISODE: Ndidi Okezie, CEO, Business in the Community
- In a special episode of The Lens, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Ndidi Okezie OBE, CEO of Business in the Community.
In Ndidi’s first month as Chief Executive Officer of Business in the Community, we find out who our new CEO is, what she’s achieved so far in her career, and where her passion lies in taking Business in the Community and all of our members forward on the responsible business journey.
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