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WOMEN’STEC Unveils Brand New North West Workshop: Empowering Women & Girls to Break Barriers in Trades and Construction

WOMEN’STEC, Northern Ireland’s trailblazing champion for women and girls in non-traditional skills, is delighted to announce the grand opening of its brand new North West workshop and training hub at Ráth Mór Business Park on Friday, 26th September, 2025.   This new workshop is set to transform opportunities for women and girls across the North West, […]

November 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 security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials. You can read […]

Consultation Response Published: Consultation on NI Executive Anti-Poverty Strategy 

Siobhán has responded to the draft Anti-Poverty Strategy using the results from the Toolkit engagement with women.  This engagement highlighted serious concerns about the lack of new actions contained in the draft plan to address rising poverty levels in Northern Ireland. The Consortium also raised serious concerns about the lack of lived experience included in […]

Consultation on Disability and Work: A Strategy for Northern Ireland

This Strategy sets out the Department for Communities’ commitment to achieve better employment outcomes for disabled people, people with health conditions, and people who are neurodivergent. In 2023/24 the employment rate for disabled people in Northern Ireland was 43.4% around half of the employment rate for people without disabilities (83.7%). The difference between these two […]

Breastfeeding Bill Consultation

Linda Dillon MLA has launched a consultation on her Private Members Bill on Breastfeeding to encourage breastfeeding in public spaces.  The purpose of the Bill is to put in place stronger protections from discrimination for those breastfeeding in public places. Many people may assume that breastfeeding is already fully protected in law but the existing protections […]

NIRWN at the NI Anti-Poverty Conference

Paula McAliskey represented NIRWN and our members at the NI Anti-Poverty Conference, a sector-wide call to action for a robust and impactful Anti-Poverty Strategy for Northern Ireland. The publication of the Draft Anti-Poverty Strategy in June marks an important opportunity to embed rights-based and evidence-led approaches to tackling poverty.  Civic society engagement is essential to […]

NIRWN at T:BUC Engagement Forum – Omagh

Paula represented NIRWN at the Together: Building a United Community (T:BUC) Engagement Forum in Omagh, which explored the theme of Social Media and its Impact on Good Relations. The event featured a diverse range of speakers and a panel and small group discussions, examining both the opportunities and challenges posed by online platforms in shaping […]

October 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 security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials. You can read […]