New Building for Sólás

Sólás is a special needs charity in Belfast, which supports children, young people and their families with a broad range of additional needs.

We have a number of social development, educational support and parent support programmes. Some of our current programmes include, early years intervention services, afterschool clubs, youth clubs, respite services, homework clubs, back on track school support, home support, therapeutic services, play and art therapy, adult and children's counselling services, siblings club and SONA, a young adult support service.

Sólás have grew substantially over the past few years and our goal is to keep up with the demand placed on our service and grow with it. In order to do this, we require a new building on our main HQ site at 284a Ormeau Road, which will give us more room and capability to continue to provide our programmes.

As you may be aware from recent media coverage we have managed to secure £308,000 from the Neighbourhood Regeneration Fund to contribute to the first phase of building. We had originally been earmarked for £800,000, leaving us with a shortfall of £492,000 which we are hoping to raise through additional pots of funding that we may be eligible for, however, we are also asking for the wider public to consider fundraising on our behalf or alternatively you can make a small donation.

We do recognise the financial struggle that some may face so please be reassured that every single penny, no matter how small, will go towards helping us achieve our goal of having a purpose built facility that can meet the needs of the children and families across our community.