British Council Northern Ireland brings the best of international education and arts to Northern Ireland and helps students, teachers, artists and others connect professionally with people around the world.

We enrich people’s lives here in Northern Ireland and abroad by encouraging and supporting this interplay of ideas, skills and experiences.

We are a Royal Charter charity, established as the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations.

Our 7000 staff in over 100 countries work with thousands of professionals and policy makers and millions of young people every year through English, arts, education and society programmes. A quarter of our funding comes from a UK government grant, and we earn the rest from services which customers pay for, education and development contracts we bid for, and from partnerships.