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☀️ Let’s keep Belfast beautiful this summer! 🏞️♻️As we hopefully head into some warmer summer days, many of us will be e...
07/06/2026

☀️ Let’s keep Belfast beautiful this summer! 🏞️♻️

As we hopefully head into some warmer summer days, many of us will be enjoying sunny backyard barbecues, park picnics, and tackling household clear-outs.

Here's how you can recycle right this summer:

🌷Picnics and trips: Out and about in the city centre or enjoying our beautiful parks? Be sure to recycle your plastic bottles and aluminium drink cans.

🍗Summer barbecues: Make sure to completely extinguish and cool any disposable barbecue trays before disposing. Give plastic condiment bottles and burger packaging a quick rinse before placing them into your home recycling.

📦Summer clear-outs: Doing a big household refresh? Remember that all our recycling centres and civic amenity sites are open late every Wednesday evening! Save time by separating your items into bags and boxes before arriving.

🛋️Bulky waste: Got a larger item like an old mattress or outdoor furniture to move? Don't dump it! You can book a free collection through our website.

🌿 Discover Belfast’s wildlife this June! 🌸Looking for a way to unwind, connect with nature, and explore our local parks?...
06/06/2026

🌿 Discover Belfast’s wildlife this June! 🌸

Looking for a way to unwind, connect with nature, and explore our local parks? Join us for our free Wildlife Wellbeing Walks throughout June.

Led by local environmental expert Dot Blakely, these relaxing, guided sessions are the perfect opportunity to meet new people and learn about local plants and wildlife.

📅 Walk schedule:

Wed 10 June at 6pm: Barnett's Demesne
Fri 19 June at 6pm: Strangford Ave Fields
Wed 24 June at 6pm: Lower Crescent Park

Be sure to wear suitable clothing and footwear.

Email [email protected] to secure your place.

Clear your clutter for FREE! 🛋️Seeing items dumped on our streets is frustrating, especially when we will collect them f...
06/06/2026

Clear your clutter for FREE! 🛋️

Seeing items dumped on our streets is frustrating, especially when we will collect them from your house for free!

👍What we can collect

You can book up to seven items per collection:

Furniture: Beds, wardrobes, sofas, and armchairs.
Appliances: Fridges, freezers, cookers, and washing machines.
Electronics: TVs, kettles, and vacuum cleaners.

🛑 What we can't collect

DIY Waste: Bricks, tiles, plasterboard, and bathroom suites.
Hazardous items: Liquid waste, paint, oil, and gas cylinders.

These items must go to a local recycling centre.

💻 Ready to book your slot? Find out more and arrange your free collection by searching 'bulky' on our website.

Belfast is celebrating the gift of lifelong learning from Monday 8th to Sunday 14 June with the Belfast Learning Festiva...
05/06/2026

Belfast is celebrating the gift of lifelong learning from Monday 8th to Sunday 14 June with the Belfast Learning Festival. 🤓

There are tons of classes, workshops, activities, presentations and talks taking place all over the city, in all sorts of different places. Libraries, community centres, men's sheds, university campuses, nature reserves, craft centres and schools. Learning can happen anywhere!

So whether you like to listen to an expert, read a book, get your hands dirty, or learn by doing - check out the full programme on our website and try out something new, or develop a skill you already have.

All events during the festival are FREE. 🥳
Get involved, make connections and discover the joy in lifelong learning.

It's nearly the weekend! And if you haven't made plans already, here are a few suggestions. For more info, search 'event...
05/06/2026

It's nearly the weekend!

And if you haven't made plans already, here are a few suggestions. For more info, search 'events' on our website.

🍔This evening, Friday 5 June, head to the Night Market at Barrow Square, Clarendon Dock & enjoy street food & music from 5pm-10pm as part of the Sailortown Festival

📚Sign up for a Belfast Book Festival reading, talk or panel discussion at Crescent Arts Centre

📸Check out Belfast Photo Festival exhibitions & workshops

👾Book a ticket at The MAC for one of the Irish Video Game Orchestra events this Saturday, supported by our Teenage Kicks cultural funding programme - sure to be a hit with gamers & music fans alike!

🎁And if you fancy a market visit to round off the weekend, St George's Market, Belfast is open from 9am on Saturday, 10am on Sunday & the Sunday Market at Writers’ Square is also perfect for a bite to eat, gift-buying & people-watching.

Remember Translink's late night services on Friday & Saturday too🚎

Have a great weekend in the city 🙂

Calling all gamers and music fans! 🎮👾🤖🎶Don’t miss two thrilling events at The MAC this Saturday 6 June - made possible w...
04/06/2026

Calling all gamers and music fans! 🎮👾🤖🎶

Don’t miss two thrilling events at The MAC this Saturday 6 June - made possible with our Teenage Kicks grants scheme, funding music events for under 18s.

The Irish Video Game Orchestra will be performing spectacular scores from Pokémon, Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and others in a family-friendly environment, including:

🔹Start Quest (2.30pm to 3.30pm) - spectacular video game music from the 90s to today, featuring soloists and an exciting visual display.

🔹Press Play (7pm to 9.30pm) - join the orchestra on a journey through the realms of video game music.

Other upcoming events made possible through this scheme include:

🔹Zoe Conway and John McIntyre, live at The Commons, Ormeau Road - Thursday 18 June

🔹Summer Assembly music showcase, Crescent Arts Centre - Saturday 20 June

Search 'events' on our website for more details and ticket info!

Belfast Music

With Belfast being a European City of Sport this year, we're delighted to be supporting Ride on Belfast once again🚴🚴‍♀️T...
04/06/2026

With Belfast being a European City of Sport this year, we're delighted to be supporting Ride on Belfast once again🚴🚴‍♀️

The popular cycle ride will take place next Friday 12 June - starting at Queen's University Belfast and ending at City Hall.

This free event runs during Bike Week to encourage more people to leave their car at home and get on their bike.

And, with a big summer ahead for Belfast, it's the ideal time to try out cycling and discover a whole new way to commute if you work in the city centre.

After the ride, you can get some advice on bike maintenance and active travel and enjoy a free breakfast too!

Meet at Queen's University at 7.45am for departure at 8am.

Olympia Leisure Centre and Spa ACES Europe Belfast Bikes

02/06/2026

Fancy doing something a bit different with your evening, for free?

This Thursday 4 June sees the return of Late Night Art - when galleries, studios and creative spaces across Belfast open late on the first Thursday of each month for an experience that's fun, friendly and inspirational!

No tickets required, there's no set route and you'll find a warm welcome wherever you pop in - making Late Night Art the perfect date to explore the city with friends, family, or solo!

This month, there's a host of exhibitions to check out, including:

📸Belfast Photo Festival
🖌️Room 2 Gallery and GoldenThread Gallery on Queen Street
📸Outpouring, a new immersive exhibition by Joe Caslin at Riddel's Warehouse on Ann Street
🖌️Catalyst Arts on Joy's Entry
🖌️Cathy Scullion's 'We Influence Everything' at Black Box on Hill Street

Enjoy!

Looking for a new career on the road?Our Transport Employment Academy is supporting unemployed and under-employed resid...
02/06/2026

Looking for a new career on the road?

Our Transport Employment Academy is supporting unemployed and under-employed residents to gain their HGV or bus driving licences and move into sustainable employment.

Participants will receive training, support and direct links to employers in the transport sector.

We are now accepting Expressions of interest via our website: https://online.belfastcity.gov.uk/eoi-employment-academy/

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