Community Life

Ever wondered what people get up to in their spare time? Community Life highlights the sometimes surprising and always inspiring things going on in community groups. Barra Best presents from Fermanagh where he joins a group of cavers as they get down and dirty to retrieve litter from some of the county’s underground caves. Connor Phillips goes on a mission to find out if new chatty benches in east Belfast are helping to get people talking. Gyasi Sheppy is challenged to pick up the flute he hasn’t played since school and join an orchestra that performs only video games music. Lynette Fay is bowled over when she meets the Cloughmills community leading the way in sustainability. In the weekly appeal on behalf of local charities, Vinny Hurrell meets some of those working with Women’s Aid Armagh and Down.

Barra Best is in Londonderry, where he learns about the group of carers who meet to knit tiny hats for newborn babies at the city’s Altnagelvin Hospital. Cate Conway tries her hand at oval car racing with the Ballymoney club enthusiasts. Jo Scott meets the people who’ve found a place to belong at Belfast’s Street Soccer, and Anne Marie Wallace proves she’s game for a laugh when she takes on the stand-up challenge. In the weekly appeal on behalf of local charities, Vinny Hurrell tries his hand at being a guide for the NI Blind Golf Association.

Barra Best is in Dungannon, where he hears how the East Timorese community are making the Tyrone town home. Plus the older people who are learning new tricks at circus school.