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Photo Caption: Linda Dillon, MLA, Sinéad McLaughlin, MLA, Angela Phillips, Carers NI, Siobhán Harding, Women’s Regional Consortium and Nuala McAllister, MLA at the launch of Women, Unpaid Care and Employment.

RESEARCH LAUNCH – Women, Unpaid Care and Employment

The latest Consortium research paper on Women, Unpaid Care & Employment has now been published in collaboration with Carers NI.  The final report includes a wealth of feedback from women who took part in focus group sessions over the last…
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March Funding Opportunities

MARCH 2024 Scheme Funder Note Date Mid Ulster District Council: Strategic Arts and Culture Grant Mid Ulster District Council Application deadline 12pm (noon) on 8 Mar 2024 Mid Ulster District…
Community Campaigners,

New research published: Career or care? Women, unpaid caring and employment in Northern Ireland

There are over 220,000 people providing unpaid care for sick or disabled family members in Northern Ireland, representing 1 in 8 of the population. This includes over 180,000 unpaid carers of working age. What do we know about women, unpaid…
Community Campaigners,

Campaigns Update

Campaigns:  Guarantee our Essentials Siobhán 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…
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RESEARCH & CSW68 – The Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on Women

The 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place in New York from 11 to 22 March 2024. As part of CSW68, Women’s Platform have organised a side event entitled Gender Budgeting: a solution to women’s poverty. …
Research launch.

RESEARCH LAUNCH – Women, Unpaid Care and Employment

The text of the next Consortium research paper on Women, Unpaid Care & Employment has now been finalised in collaboration with Carers NI.  The final report includes a wealth of feedback from women who took part in focus group sessions over…
Community Campaigners,

Campaigns Update: February

Campaigns:  Guarantee our Essentials Siobhán 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…
Community Campaigners,

The Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on Women in Northern Ireland & the Healthy Start Scheme

Following the launch of the Consortium’s research paper with the Ulster University Law Clinic in June 2023, Siobhán has been working with Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick and Dr Alexandra Chapman from Ulster University and a group of women from Atlas…
Community Campaigners,

Women’s Centre Derry: Moving Forward in 2024

As we begin a new year its good to reflect on the successes and challenges of the year before. We have endured a lot this past 12 months and worked hard on Making Change and breaking down barriers. The regional consortium is committed to challenging…
Community Campaigners,

Ground-breaking course helps women to campaign against social injustice

Women in Belfast are being given an opportunity to gain the campaigning skills necessary to improve the lives of people in their communities. The Community Campaigners Course, run by the Women’s Resource and Development Agency (WRDA), offers…

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