The Triax Neighbourhood Management Team encompasses several community development projects: The Bogside and Brandywell Initiative, The Peace Barriers Project, Better Together and Tús Maith. Although we are a constantly evolving organisation our overall ethos remains. To recognise and address the challenges faced across the communities we support.

 

Originally established in 1996 as a community based coalition of 30 community and voluntary organisations from the Bogside, Brandywell, Bishop Street and Fountain areas aiming to address the poor community infrastructure and facilities in the area. This, together with a commitment to explore the potential of community development practices to address the areas' high levels of deprivation, were the founding principles of the Bogside & BrandywelI Initiative (BBI).  We got our start in helping address problems facing local residents as they emerged from decades of conflict through improvement of community infrastructure with the provision of new facilities and the upgrading and refurbishment of existing facilities. As infrastructure improved our focus shifted towards residents in the area, with the BBI merging with Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership in 2006 and became the leading community development organisation in the area. 

 

As our engagement with residents increased we became more involved in environmental improvement schemes at both the residential and communal level. A major focus of this work was based on the broken window theory to improve the physical appearance of areas where people lived and worked, through the rapid removal of graffiti and illegal dumping and assisting individual residents in the maintenance of their gardens. This in-turn lead to the establishment of the Tús Maith project, which has seen 4 environmental workers employed by the BBI. Also managed by BBI, the Peace Walls Project has been operational between Bishop Street and the Fountain since 2012. It focuses on building community capacity, developing initiatives in the local area to build community confidence within and between communities, and has the overall aim of working towards cross-community agreement around barrier alteration, removal or de-classification.

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