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You as a business can become involved with the work of the Belfast Hills by:

• Your team learning about family fun activities like geocaching, orienteering, treasure hunting or seasonal delights such as collecting wild bilberries and making pancakes (above), picking wild garlic in spring and berries or wild hazelnuts in autumn.

• You and your staff becoming Friends of the Belfast Hills - making a tangible difference to the quality of the hills sites. Your company could become a life member and/or donate an amount to our Friends group so your staff can enjoy a discount on the annual fee. (Individual membership - £10 - Group/family membership - £20 - Junior/unwaged - £5 - Life membership - £150)

• Sponsoring our newsletter and e-newsletters that boast a combined database of almost 3,000 local people. We will take pictures of your staff out on the Belfast Hills and include their efforts on our website, e-newsletter and newsletter with a great article.

• Letting us bring your staff into the Belfast Hills to show them a series of chosen sites.
• Supplying your staff for volunteer days - removal of invasive species, path and drainage works, planting trees and environmental clean-ups and building barn owl boxes to help local endangered wildlife.
• Becoming involved in our fundraising days - bring a pound to work, coffee morning, informal dress day or whatever your staff suggest!
• Your company making a donation.
• Staff taking part in wildlife sightings and recording species, reporting environmental issues.

Contact Partnership Manager Dr Jim Bradley 

You may have or intend spearheading an initiative to improve the health of your staff.

• We are well-placed to help employers improve the health of staff. We show your team how to access the Belfast Hills and enjoy the great outdoors.
• Your employees may wish to form a walking club for general health and weight loss. We can show them how to access the various sites in the hills.
• We promote and are qualified to take walks that promote safe, moderate and weight-loss exercise. A workplace walking workout!
• Hill walking will compliment in-house initiatives you may have in mind to help your employees and their families relieve stress and get healthy.
• If you already have a staff health intranet initiative or health hub we are happy to supply a link to our website.

The Belfast Hills are here to help and support the local business community

The Partnership supports businesses in and around the Belfast Hills and we are noted by NIEA as a model for good practice.

The Belfast Hills Partnership looks after the specific area of the Belfast Hills. We help people discover the Belfast Hills.

The Partnership is involved in a number of initiatives to boost the local economy including tourism, rural development, landscape and volunteer schemes.