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Campaigning Roundup

The Women's Regional Consortium is involved in various campaigns to drive change. You can keep up to date with campaign progress below. Cliff Edge Coalition Siobhán continues to work as part of the Working Group for the Cliff Edge Coalition…

Campaign Update – Cost of Living Coalition

Siobhán has joined the Cost of Living Coalition Belfast.  This is a group of trade unionists, anti-poverty campaigners, environmentalists and activities who want to see action on cost of living issues.  The Coalition believe that the Stormont…

Campaigns Update – Cliff Edge Coalition

Siobhán continues to work as part of the Working Group for the Cliff Edge Coalition on extending and strengthening the welfare mitigations package in Northern Ireland.  The focus of Cliff Edge work will now be on strengthening the mitigations…

Work & Pensions Committee – Call for Evidence on Cost of Living Crisis

The Work & Pensions Committee at Westminster issued a call for evidence on the Cost of Living Crisis. Siobhán has submitted a Consortium response to this call for evidence using the evidence from the Women and Debt report which focused…

British Irish Secretariat visit NIRWN

Louise Coyle welcomed Dianne Wilson, Deputy Secretary of the Independent Reporting Commission of the Irish Secretariat and Joint Secretaries Chris Atkinson and Nicholas Murphy to the NIRWN offices on Thursday 30th June. The IRC came from…

NIRWN Members Have Their Say on Rural Development

NIRWN staff and members attended a conference on Thursday 23rd June on the future of Rural Development Delivery which was jointly organised by NIRWN and RCN.  NIRWN members had an opportunity to give their opinions on the future of their rural…
Funding

June Funding Update

JUNE 2022 Scheme Funder Note Date Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Wingate Foundation Application deadline 5pm on 1 Jun 2022 Young Women's Mental Health Plus Pilgrim Trust UK Stage 1: Discuss eligibility with…

Event: AONTAS Northern Ireland Consortium Meeting

Tuesday, 7th June 2022 11am - 12.30 pm Zoom This Consortium has been established to address the need of community learning providers in Northern Ireland to have a space where they can share experiences and information, support one another…

Event: Lets Talk About Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

What is best practice for employers whose staff report sexual harassment in the workplace? And what’s the gap between that best practice and what actually happens in workplaces? Register Here For the past two years, WRDA has been working…

NIRWN Meeting with NIO Officials

NIRWN hosted NI Office officials in NIRWN on Tuesday 17th May.  Issues raised on behalf of membership were: Impact of no functioning government The lack of female representation at high level civic society engagements; women are 51%…

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