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Campaigning Update: Keep The Lifeline

Siobhán Harding, the Policy Worker for our Partner Organisation, Women’s Support Network continues to work with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and a coalition of other organisations on the Keep The Lifeline campaign around the £20 uplift to Universal Credit.  The Coalition will be undertaking more work around this campaign towards the end of the summer […]

Connect4Women Project Launched by WOMEN’STEC, Glow NI, and Shankill Women’s Centre

Proudly supported by The National Lottery Community fund, WOMEN’STEC, Glow NI, and Shankill Women’s Centre launch new initiative to support unemployed women in North and West Belfast to access training, education, and personal development. Connect4Women is a collaborative project between WOMEN’STEC, Glow NI, and Shankill Women’s Centre. Together, we take a whole-person approach to helping […]

Funding Opportunities

JULY 2021 Scheme Funder Note Date Moy Park Community Support Fund OSI Group: Moy Park Closing Date 1 Jul 2021 Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Grant Round 3 Opening Date 1 Jul 2021 Music for All Music for All Application Deadline 1 Jul 2021 Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon (ABC) […]

Cliff Edge Coalition Update

Siobhán Harding (Policy Worker at our Partner Organisation, Women’s Support Network) continues to work with the Cliff Edge Coalition on their Working Group to take forward and lobby for the extension and strengthening of the mitigations package in Northern Ireland. The Coalition is currently campaigning to Close the Loopholes in the Bedroom Tax and Benefit […]

Women’s Support Network Call on local Government to look at the reasons behind Paramilitary lending

The Northern Ireland Executive Programme to Tackle Paramilitary Activity, Criminality and Organised Crime launched its latest ‘Ending the Harm’ public awareness campaign, focusing on how paramilitary gangs use illegal money lending as a means to control and exploit vulnerable people. Siobhán has been using social media to highlight the findings in the Consortium’s research paper Making Ends […]

Virtual Policy Forum: At the Nexus of Participation and Protection: Risks and Barriers to Women’s Participation in Northern Ireland

The International Peace Institute (IPI) and Women’s Resource and Development Agency (WRDA) are pleased to invite you to a virtual policy forum entitled “At the Nexus of Participation and Protection: Risks and Barriers to Women’s Participation in Northern Ireland,” taking place on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, from 9:00am to 10:30am EST. This public discussion launches new research on women’s experiences […]

Feminist Recovery Plan Relaunch

Register Here We are excited to announce that the Women’s Policy Group are relaunching our COVID-19 Feminist Recovery Plan on Wednesday 28th July 2021 from 10am-12pm. One year on from the WPG NI COVID-19 Feminist Recovery Plan 2020 was initially launched in July 2020, gender-neutral policy making prevails and there has been little recognition of the gendered impact of […]