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 caring and employment in Northern Ireland? Unpaid carers are a diverse population, encompassing child and […]
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 […]
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. This side event will feature a presentation on the Consortium’s research into the Impact of the Cost of […]
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 the last few months as well as the results of survey data from Carers […]
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 […]
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 Women’s Centre on awareness raising around the Healthy Start Scheme in Northern Ireland. During the research, […]
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 Government, elected officials and MLA’s about the barriers facing women […]
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 free online training to women to provide them with the tools to campaign for better services for their […]
FEBRUARY 2024 Scheme Funder Note Date Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Round 1 opens 1 Feb 2024 Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation Skipton Building Society Application deadline 1 Feb 2024 Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council: Community Festivals Fund Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Application deadline: 12 noon, Friday […]
The Big Youth Survey is live on CitizenSpace. As you may be aware, the new Youth Assembly is up and running and they will be choosing issues to focus on over their two-year mandate. They are asking young people, aged between 12-21, to help them decide. It is live from 8 January until midnight 26 […]
