Call me a cynic, but I wasn’t impressed when I first saw Coca-Cola’s new advertising campaign. ‘Share a Coke with a friend’? Who would want to share a Coke? Surely this was going to backfire hugely. Instead it has been incredibly successful. Partly because I was right: people don’t share a Coke with their friend, […]

Our Table Quiz and Meal has now become a much anticipated annual event! It started about 7 or 8 years ago when it was used as a fund raising event for the young people’s summer teams and has gone from strength to strength. We have held them in the Sixth Form Centre at Ballymena Academy, […]

There is an area of the gym I don’t venture into all that often; the heavy weights area for the wannabe bodybuilders! Large muscle sculptured physiques covered in tattoos, lifing twice their body weight…and that’s just the females!! Don’t get me wrong, I can lift weights…I can comfortably bench press a weight that any teenage […]

“It was a wintry Tuesday night. I was counselling all day and had taught for three hours in the evening. I was driving home about ten o’clock, dreaming about an hour or so of relaxation before I hit the bed. I silently hoped that for some inexplicable reason, the whole family had gone to sleep […]

We invite all ladies to join us on Thursday 16th and 23rd May at 7:30pm for our Fit 4 Life programme. You can walk, join the fitness session or the craft group. We have a guest speaker each evening for a short epilogue and finish with supper. These nights are free and informal! We hope […]

Focusfest Women’s Conference was founded in 1993 and has become Northern Ireland’s largest event for Christian women, drawing women of all ages together from different denominations, backgrounds and locations. The desire of Focusfest’s heart is that it will be a tool for equipping and mobilising women of all ages to make a difference in their […]

The Football Fun Week will take place between 17th – 21st June at Ballee Playing Fields from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Due to high demand, we cannot accept any more registrations.

On Saturday 20th April Ballymena Battalion Boys’ Brigade met to celebrate 125 years of Boys’ Brigade in Ireland. Approximately 100 boys and officers from the Battalion climbed Slemish and enjoyed a BBQ in the car park afterwards.