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Calling All Rural Women – The Department for Communities Wants to Hear Your Views

‘People and Place – A Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal’ was launched in June 2003. It was aimed at targeting those communities in Northern Ireland suffering the highest levels of deprivation by bringing together the work of all Government…
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Agreement+25: Where next for women in Northern Ireland

Where Next for Women in NI?  - Tuesday 6th June at 12.00pm at Parliament Buildings, Stormont Women played a unique role in achieving the Good Friday Agreement, both at the negotiation table and through their work in families, communities,…
Funding

Funding Opportunities for June

JUNE 2023 BW Social Affordable Housing: Community & Sports FundingBW LtdApplication deadline2 Jun 2023 AIB Community FundAllied Irish Banks PlcNominations close4 Jun 2023 Arts Council NI: National Lottery Project Funding 2023-2024Arts…
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Opinion Piece by Women’s Centre Derry: We Voted, Now its Time for Politicians to Make It Count

Election season is just over and we are a country that’s divided in our religions, political views, and political parties yet we all need the same thing; a working Government. Our country and its people are in crisis, we can barely keep…
Cliff Edge Coalition NI

Campaigns Update: Cliff Edge Coalition

Siobhán continues to attend meetings of the Cliff Edge Coalition Working Group which is working to strengthen the existing mitigations package for Northern Ireland.  Cliff Edge recently relaunched their key asks and Siobhán spoke at the launch…
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Campaigns Update: Coalition of Carers

Siobhán has joined the Coalition of Carers which is chaired by Carers NI and continues to attend regular meetings of the Coalition.  The Coalition is made up of a number of organisations all working to highlight the key issues that carers…
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Campaigns Update: NI Child Payment

Siobhán continues to the meet with the working group for the Northern Ireland Child Payment Coalition.  The introduction of a NI Child Payment was a recommendation by the Gender Equality and Anti-Poverty Expert Panels and in the Feminist Recovery…
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Campaigns Update: Guarantee our Essentials

Siobhán is now part of a new 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…
An Essential Guarantee

Consultation on Department for Communities Budget 2023-24 allocations

Following the announcement of the Budget 2023/24 by the Secretary of State the Department’s Equality Impact Assessment details the Department for Communities proposed budget allocations and how it will impact on the Department’s ability…
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Media Coverage of Consortium Research Used to Lobby Department for Communities

Siobhán has carried out a number of media interviews in relation to proposed cuts to the Department for Communities (DfC) funding particularly in relation to cuts to Discretionary Support.  Siobhán was able to draw on research carried out…

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