ON July 19 2025 we returned to Brooke Park for our family fun day, hoping to recreate the magic of the year previous when 300 people joined us.

It is hard to gauge how many families and individuals came along this year but one way of doing it is this: We brought with us 250 burgers and even more sausages for hotdogs. By the end of the day there wasn’t a burger or a sausage to be found!

It was another very successful day for us as an organisation and we enjoy immensely seeing smiles on faces, both young and older and from both the local community and those only now making a life for themselves in Derry.

Thank you to everyone who came along and everyone who helped make it such a wonderful event. To our funders, National Lottery Community Fund, Esmeé Fairbarn, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Co-op Foundation, without you none of this would be possible. To our facilitators, our volunteers, St John’s Ambulance and Derry City and Strabane District Council who look after Brooke Park, we are immensely grateful for all your help and support.

All being well we will be back next year. Hopefully we’ll see you then if not before. For now, enjoy our photo gallery, the majority of which were captured by Marie McGrellis.