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Campaigns Update: Coalition of Carers

The Consortium is represented in the Coalition of Carers by the Women’s Support Network. Siobhán continues to attend regular meetings of the Coalition of Carers which is chaired by Carers NI.  The Coalition is made up of a number of organisations all working to highlight the key issues that carers are facing across Northern Ireland.

Campaigns Update: Guaranteeing Our Essentials 

The Consortium 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. The Campaign is planning a number […]

Consultation on The Executive Office Budget Allocation for 2024-2025 – Equality Impact Assessment

The Executive Office has published an Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) on the proposals for the Department’s budget allocation for 2024-2025. The process aims to avoid any adverse impacts and where possible take action to mitigate these. The EQIA examines the options for budget reductions and the equality impacts of these. The deadline for responses to […]

NEW RESEARCH – Women, Skills & Barriers to Work

Siobhán is currently working on the write up of the Consortium’s latest research paper on Women, Skills & Barriers to Work.  This follows the completion of 10 focus group sessions with 60 women.  The research paper will include the experiences of women across Northern Ireland and also reflecting the views of rural women and women […]

October Funding Opportunities

October 2024 Scheme Funder Note Date NFU Mutual Charitable Trust NFU Website Application deadline for November meeting 4 Oct 2024 Belfast Harbour Community Awards Application Guidelines Application deadline 4 Oct 2024 Laughology: THE HAPPINESS FUND THE HAPPINESS FUND Application deadline 4 Oct 2024 Jerwood Foundation https://jerwood.org/funding/ Winter application deadline 5pm on 4 Oct 2024 Lord […]

Feminist Responses to Climate Change

Are you concerned about the impact of climate change, and the mainstream response to it, on women? We have the group for you! Over 3 sessions we will look at the climate crisis as a type of gender-based violence, we will chat about the reproductive rights response to climate change, and the power of individual […]