EastSide Partnership (ESP) is a charity leading the regeneration of east Belfast. We work alongside community-based organisations, elected representatives, statutory agencies and local businesses, to deliver a wide variety of projects seeking to benefit residents, visitors and our neighbours.
We were formed in 1995 and founded in 1996. Our work is governed by a parent board through a Chief Executive and a core central team providing shared service support to the following projects:
- EastSide Arts - whose aim is to create an east Belfast where the arts are valued, creativity is for everyone, and people are connected with each other and the wider world.
- EastSide Greenways - whose aim is to promote the sustainable development, management, improvement and use of open green spaces and routes, parks and rivers for the benefit of the public.
- EastSide Learning – whose aim is to reduce educational underachievement and raise aspirations in east Belfast. Supporting children, young people and their families to reach their potential, whatever their background.
- EastSide Property - whose aim is to contribute to the physical regeneration of east Belfast through the strategic acquisition, development and management of sites and properties.
- EastSide Tourism - whose aim is co-ordinate and deliver responsible, sustainable and impactful culture-led neighbourhood regeneration through tourism, putting east Belfast on the map for visitors.
- In addition, we deliver the Neighbourhood Renewal contract with the Department for Communities (DfC) by firstly ensuring that all of the above projects engage with the communities identified within the contract, as well as providing ongoing support to the Inner East & Tullycarnet Neighbourhood Renewal Partnerships.