Homelessness is rising in Northern Ireland, with thousands of households presenting as homeless each year. Between April and September 2025 alone, more than 8,200 households reported homelessness. When people are homeless in Northern Ireland, the Housing Associations can place them in temporary accommodation, including hotels and bed & breakfasts, while they wait for social housing […]
WRDA have teamed up with Menstruation Matters to launch a new survey to shed light on the issue of restricted bathroom access in schools across NI. The survey, closing at 5pm on Friday, 13th February 2026, seeks input from pupils, parents, and medical professionals to gather information in the extent and impact of bathroom access restrictions in our […]
This Strategy set out the Department for Communities’ commitment to achieve better employment outcomes for disabled people, people with health conditions, and people who are neurodivergent. In 2023/24 the employment rate for disabled people in Northern Ireland was 43.4% around half of the employment rate for people without disabilities (83.7%). The difference between these two […]
Campaigns: Guarantee our Essentials Siobhán is part of a campaign from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust calling for an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit. The Essentials Guarantee would embed in the social security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials. You can read […]
There are very few policy wins these days but the scrapping of the two-child limit is a really important one. The scrapping of this cruel policy by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Autumn 2025 Budget has been the result of many years of campaigning by the women’s sector, the Community & Voluntary sector and […]
Three new funds from the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland The Randal Foundation will offer grants to support grassroots activity that directly save or significantly improve lives. Grants of up to £3,000 available. The Inspiring Growth Fund aims to help organisations in the community sector take the time and space needed to focus on their […]
Campaigns: Guarantee our Essentials Siobhán is part of a campaign from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust calling for an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit. The Essentials Guarantee would embed in the social security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials. You can read […]
This Strategy sets out the Department for Communities’ commitment to achieve better employment outcomes for disabled people, people with health conditions, and people who are neurodivergent. In 2023/24 the employment rate for disabled people in Northern Ireland was 43.4% around half of the employment rate for people without disabilities (83.7%). The difference between these two […]
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves MP announced the scrapping of the two-child limit in Universal Credit in her Autumn Budget 2025 speech. The two-child limit will be scrapped from April 2026. This is testament to many years of campaigning by the women’s sector and the wider Community and Voluntary sector. The two-child limit has a greater […]
Siobhán has carried out a number of focus group for the next Consortium research paper which is on Women and Mental Health. The aim of the research is to highlight a number of areas: The problems with poor mental health in Northern Ireland. Women’s increased likelihood to experience poor mental health. The contributing factors to […]
