Want to reach out to your local community but fed up doing the same old thing? Need some fresh ideas to support families, older people or even prepare for the next seasonal event? ROC’s 101 Community Ideas resource has, yes you guessed it, 101 tried and tested innovative ideas of projects, events and activities to … Continue reading 101 Community Ideas

Town’s Mayor and people unite on world famous iconic seaside pier to host a Christmas Carol celebration - to end a devastating COVID-19 year with an explosion of hope. In one of the most challenging years for generations, ROC WSM aims to bring a little hope and light to our communities with an online service … Continue reading Town’s Mayor and people unite to host a Christmas Carol celebration

2020 has been a tough year for many communities and it gives us even more reason to share some ideas which might bring joy and hope this Christmas. Our ROC action groups around the country are putting many of these ideas to good use. Please let us know if you decide to use any of … Continue reading CHRISTMAS IDEAS

November 19th saw our first ever online ROC Conversation. We held the afternoon and evening Community Engagement events in Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh. Keeva Watson and Victoria Duncan, from ROC Northern Ireland, worked tirelessly to ensure that the events were a success. Cllr John Coyle welcomed us to Enniskillen and spoke of his admiration for … Continue reading ROC Conversation Goes Online.

by Keeva Watson ROC now have two new mentoring projects in Northern Ireland. This is a significant moment in ROC’s work as ROCNI Regional Development Manager Keeva explains… ‘When ROC+COACH Community Mentoring launched a couple of years ago I was keen to bring it to Northern Ireland. So you can imagine my excitement when we … Continue reading TELE-MENTORS UPDATE

Newly extended community hub’ - following a successful ROC Conversation in Holt’s, Oldham in 2018 we identified the problem of lack of community spaces. We took over a local shop which was being used as a cafe and opened it as a community hub. The space was named the ROC n Rolls cafe. However we … Continue reading COMMUNITY HUB – OLDHAM

Back in March, before lockdown was announced, ROC Dawlish 'jumped the gun', so to speak, and approached the Town Council to ask how we could help the town through collaboration. As churches, we could see what was coming - the need for food, for friendship, for hope - in what was going to, at least, … Continue reading CHRISTMAS ISN’T CANCELLED

ROC delivers restorative justice projects in Manchester in partnership with Remedi. Restorative Justice gives both the victim and the offender a chance to be restored. The offender can say sorry and make amends. ROC restore gives people who have done wrong and who have made mistakes a second chance. A chance to apologise to the … Continue reading RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

We launched at the Reebok Stadium in September 2004. We had a dream to see crime rates dropping and communities thriving across Greater Manchester. But the vision grew, and we launched nationally at the NEC in Birmingham in 2006 with 7000 people attending the national launch as part of the Trumpet Call event. Projects and … Continue reading 16 Years of ROC