WSN Policy Worker Siobhán Harding spoke at the second ever Women’s Parliament event held in Stormont in February 2025 about Consortium research on women and unpaid care. Siobhán highlighted the research work carried out in partnership with Carers NI which showed that many women have given up work to care, decreased their working hours due […]
Siobhán continues to lobby around the findings and recommendations of the Women’s Regional Consortium’s latest research paper Women, Skills & Barriers to Work. In partnership with the NI Anti-Poverty Network (NIAPN) Siobhán launched the research paper in Derry~Londonderry. This included a rich discussion with women and service providers in the North West on barriers […]
NIRWN in partnership with Community Foundation NI, Falls Women’s Centre and Reclaim the Agenda were winners of the NI Hummingbird Awards for Allyship for their work on the ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ project. The award recognised the inclusion of rural women and the diversity of women across our region who were supported to […]
NIRWN supported our members to attend and make representation in the NI Assembly Chambers at the Women’s Parliament held at Parliament Buildings, Stormont Estate. NIRWN members Edel Gribbin, Denise Kelso and Barbara Campbell had the opportunity to speak on issues affecting rural women in their areas. They members provided powerful testimony and advocacy on behalf […]
We know from our research work that women often bear the brunt of poverty in their homes as we have detailed in Section 2.0 of this response. Women often act as the shock absorbers of poverty going without heat, food and other essentials to protect their children and family members when money is tight. The […]
NIRWN in partnership with PL20NI (20 Years of the Polish Community in NI) will be running a five-week programme, 11pm – 1pm in Armagh City and it is free to participate. The venue is still to be chosen but will be accessible to all. Tuesday 4th March 11am – 1pm, Tuesday 18th March, Tuesday […]
On Friday 7th March for International Women’s Day. All organisations will be present with a table providing information about FREE services and support available for women. We would encourage all women and girls to attend. We feel it would be very beneficial for secondary schools and youth organisations to bring young girls along. This event […]
‘Anything a boy can do, a girl can do better…’ – the Holy Cross girls learning to be builders, joiners and plumbers. We were delighted to be featured in the Irish News this week, highlighting our work with the incredible pupils of Holy Cross Girls’ Primary School as part of our #NotJustForBoys programme. The article […]
On the 14th of January, a motion on gender budgeting was passed in the Assembly, a significant step in Northern Ireland’s gender budgeting journey. Put forward by the SDLP alongside a number of other motions relating to gender equality, the motion read: That this Assembly recognises the role of gender-responsive budgeting in addressing systemic gender […]
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 […]
