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April Funding Opportunities

APRIL 2023   Scheme Funder Note Date Ironmongers Company: STEM Projects Ironmongers Company Application deadline 1 Apr 2023 Council of Europe: European Youth Foundation Council of Europe Deadline for applications…
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FWIN / TWN Visit New York with 20 female participants from the WICT programme

Participants from diverse backgrounds drawn from throughout Northern Ireland who took part in the WICT programme exchanged experiences, knowledge and good practices under the CSW67 priority theme “Innovation and technological change, and education…
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Public consultation on services for individuals who have been bereaved by suicide

Public Health Agency (PHA) recognises the importance of reviewing current services for individuals who have been bereaved by suicide and most importantly listening to the views of service users, families, local communities and organisations…
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Women’s Policy Group’s Response to APPG on Poverty

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Poverty recently launching an inquiry looking into the (in)adequacy of the social security benefit rates, focusing on benefits for working-age people and their children. The main purpose of the…
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Unleashing the power of civil society January 2023

Over the last decade, the role that civil society plays have become ever more fundamental to life in the UK. The Covid pandemic shone a spotlight on that, and the cost-of-living crisis has highlighted it even more starkly. The ever-accelerating…
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Campaign Update: Cliff Edge Coalition

Siobhán continues to be a member of the Cliff Edge Working Group.  The Group met recently to discuss a new social media campaign, a forward work plan and to discuss changes to the working group membership.
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Campaign Update: Coalition of Carers

Siobhán has joined 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.  Siobhán will present…
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Campaign 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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Campaign 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…
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Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy 2023-2030

The Departments of Health and Justice are seeking views on a new draft Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy to cover the period from 2023 until 2030. Siobhán will be making a Consortium response to the draft Strategy.  If you have any comments…