Biography
Baroness May Blood works to address the totality of problems facing communities on Northern Ireland’s peace line, particularly as they affect disadvantaged youth. She is chairperson of Impact Training, an organization that guides the education of young people at risk, and chair of the Campaign Executive of the Integrated Education Fund. Baroness Blood is a member of the Springfield Inter-community Development Project and the Blackmountain Action Group, both located on the peace line and working to find new approaches to deep-rooted violent conflict through cross-community development. Baroness Blood is a founder and former member of the Women’s Coalition Party, a cross-community party working for inclusion, human rights, and equality in Northern Ireland, with members from diverse political, religious, gender, and age groups. In 1999, she became the first woman in Northern Ireland to be given life peerage. (04.2005)
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Email: bloodm at parliament.uk
Phone: + 011 44.28. 90. 874.000