Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership

Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership was established in 1995 to provide direct services to both the residents and the groups within the Creggan area. Its aims are to build the capacity of community organisations in the Creggan area and to work to counteract deprivation and disadvantage and weak community infrastructure through the promotion of social and economic regeneration and community development. CNP works in partnership with community, private and statutory organisations and service providers to deliver resources and initiatives to improve the quality of life for residents. CNP also deliver a number of programmes and projects aimed at building the skills, employment, and capacity of residents and run programmes aimed at marginalised youth to build their capacity and promote relations between older residents. Its focus is also on building a strong and vibrant self-supporting community. CNP run capacity building programmes for residents including, IT, essential skills, personal development courses, peace and reconciliation training, capacity building among young people and relationship building within the community between young people and older residents. The Creggan area has been identified as an area of multi disadvantage. It ranks in the top 10% multi-disadvantage Super Output areas by the Northern Ireland, Multiple Deprivation Measure. Contained within the Multiple Deprivation Measure the SOAs rank high for Economic Deprivation; Education and Skills; Employment and Health.