BEST COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTRE FINALIST - Clonard Youth Club

Your Name: Danielle Murray
Your Organisation/Company: Clonard Monastery Youth Centre

Your favourite thing about West Belfast: My favourite thing about West Belfast is the people, especially young people. They are welcoming, energetic and enthusiastic about life. One of their most admiring traits is how they embrace and accept individuals for who they are.

Your First Job: Youth Worker

What it taught you? It taught me to accept young people as they are. We all come from different homes and have diverse experiences which make us who we are. This encouraged me to take people at face value and embrace all our similarities and differences as well.

What do you think are the key ingredients needed to make a person or organisation the Best of the West? Unconditional Positive Regard and Love. I suppose it all depends on the category.

Clonard Monastery Youth Centre has been around from 1971, catering to the community and young people's needs. We offer drop in, various programmes targeting specific topics as well as hosting summer schemes, trips, residentials and internationals to NYC, SA and Disneyland.