Bernadette McAliskey

Since her time as an MP in the late 60s and early 70s, Bernadette McAliskey has devoted herself to the building of a successful community infrastructure in her local area of South Tyrone.

 She has been a keen community activist on a number of subjects including Equal Opportunities, Womens’ issues, Discrimination and more recently Racial Equality. As Co-ordinator of South Tyrone Empowerment Programme (S.T.E.P.) since 1997, she has assumed management of the organisation’s four distinct but inherently linked

Departments – Community Development, Tutor-led Training, Interpreter Services and Migrant Workers Support Services.

Despite the demands on her time and resources with S.T.E.P. Bernadette still maintains an active role in a number of Community and Voluntary sector organisations in the area.

Speaking on her work, Bernadette says: 

“There are probably not many people in any employment sector who could honestly say that they feel fortunate to go to their work every morning to do something they enjoy doing - and get paid for it. The work I do with S.T.E.P. is the type of work I have been doing most of my life so I am delighted that organisations like S.T.E.P. exist so that valuable community work can continue”