Michael Boyd OBE

Thanks to all the amazing Mums and Daughters who played today and raised over £500, smashing our target for the Cancer Fund for Children in memory of Lynn Whitla.

And thanks to Sirocco Works FC and Davy Keatley for letting us use their brilliant ground for free.

Love chairing these working groups and bringing great people from across the world together to share ideas/good practice. Love seeing new partnerships and relationships develop too.

Fantastic forum today!

Great day of learning in Belfast today with the Fellowship Programme.
#designthinking
#leadership
#lobbying
#networking
#peacebuilders
#NIforAll

Brilliant week in Oxford with great people on the Fellowship Programme.

Street Soccer NI
Salvation Army Cup Winners
Homeless World Cup
#oslo2025hwc
#HomelessWorldCup
#MoreThanAGame
#GAWA

Our Street Soccer NI men play Bosnia later today in the final of the Salvation Army Cup here at the Homeless World Cup in Oslo!

Both our men's and women's teams have been a joy to support at this tournament.

#oslo2025hwc
#HomelessWorldCup
#GAWA

Four women on a video call

NIHRC staff recently recorded a new Shared Goals podcast with Dr Orna Young from @factcheckni.bsky.social.

We discussed online misinformation and disinformation, its effects on people in Northern Ireland, and how human rights can be used to address these issues.

Look out for it coming soon!

Next stops Dublin then Oslo!

Honoured to be volunteering with Street Soccer NI at the Homeless World Cup!

It was the final day of our Girls Only Football Camp today at Dixon Park in East Belfast. The girls enjoyed some great coaching by Emma Gardner, Tilly Kirkpatrick and Zara McQuillan in the glorious sunshine! A massive thanks to all the parents and players for making it such an enjoyable camp!

Day one of this wee camp ✅

Looking forward to tomorrow's session already.

Some great wee players! Today was a joy to witness. Each player gave 💯 from the start.

Thanks to Sirocco Works FC for letting us use their fantastic facilities and the free tea & coffee for the parents!

Tonight I supported a community group in Holywood with plans for their Community Games on 3rd Aug and I delivered a stakeholder workshop for Street Soccer NI.

Lots of fun and sun today at my football camp in East Belfast!

We had a great time this morning on day one of our Boys Summer Football Camp in association with Sirocco Works FC at Dixon Park in East Belfast. We had 20 boys from Sirocco, Tw Braga, Glentoran, Greenisland and Comber all coming together to enjoy a value based coaching session.

All money raised going to Cancer Fund for Children.

Awesome 🤩

We had a blast today at our Girls Only Summer Camp at Dixon Park in East Belfast. Some brilliant young players in the group. I enjoyed coaching alongside Emma Gardner from Glentoran and the Belfast Met Football Academy Coaches Poppy, Mia, Tilly, Ruby and Zara. Thanks all ♥ ⚽

Another fun value based football session with the Belfast Asian Women's Academy. We practiced some dribbling and passing, then played 3v3. Amazing progress made and a joy to coach.

@cahr-york.bsky.social brilliant conference Towards a Network of UK Cities Working on Human Rights.

The Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York is offering one scholarship worth £7,300 for the 2025/26 academic year.

Deadline: 15 August 2025, 23:59 BST.

Find out more and apply 👇

www.york.ac.uk/cahr/news/20...

Day 2 at Queens
#business
#humanrights

Professor John Ferguson presenting.

Professor John Ferguson from the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social discusses how businesses should approach human rights due diligence, and the steps they need to consider.

David Russell, Chief Executive at NIHRC.

David Russell, Chief Executive at @nihrc.bsky.social, emphasises the importance of collaboration between businesses, government and civil society in business and human rights work.

Very interesting first day, well done all.

Room with attendees. A presentation is being screened while a speaker is presenting, next to it a NIHRC pull-up banner can be seen.

Today is the first day of the Business and Human Rights in NI workshops, organised by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and supported by @nihrc.bsky.social.

NI riots: Ballymena school absence rates spike in the wake of violence Paul Givan says there are cases where some children taking part in the riots in Ballymena attacked the homes of classmates.

This is a problem of adult origin: some of us are giving children the idea that attacking their peers is is acceptable behaviour.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

4 workshops delivered today!

What a great school ♥

sMYTH BUSTING the Green Party, part 2: The Greens want to ban cars. No we don't.

We want to strengthen public transport & active travel. Our roads are congested & filled with dirty air. 34% of people in Belfast don't have access to a car. Is this really the best we can do?

We had more than 80 girls playing at our Strandtown Academy today. Our coaches Zara, Tilly, Emma B, Emma G, Clara, Poppy, Jazmin and Maisy did an amazing job leading the session.
#fun
#safe
#inclusive