Yoga provider becomes first Northern Ireland community interest company

By Ben Cook, Third Sector Online, 23 October 2007

An organisation specialising in yoga-based personal development training has become the first community interest company to be registered in Northern Ireland.

Skills for Life runs its training sessions in what it describes as “a range of community, educational and work settings”. In order to become a CIC, a company has to satisfy a community interest test, which stipulates that it must pursue activities that benefit a wider community than just its...

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