Northern Ireland Assembly and Business Trust

Background

The establishment, in 2002, of NIABT, offered parliamentarians and the business sector in Northern Ireland an alternative educational and information discussion forum around which each group could develop a greater understanding of respective needs. As an independent, neutral and self-financing educational charity, NIABT organises programmes for Assembly Members and Business representatives involving exchanges, seminars, visits and fellowship placements.

NIABT visit the Wright Group in Ballymena

NIABT's mission statement is:

"To advance and encourage business understanding of the Assembly and Assembly Members' understanding of business"

Activities are twofold:

• Providing Assembly Members with a better insight into how the local business sector operates thereby facilitating them in making more informed judgements on policy and legislation relating to the local economy, and;
  
• Improving the business community’s understanding of how the Assembly and devolution works and how policy and legislation is initiated and developed.