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Department for Communities – Independent Advice and Debt Services 2025-2030 workshops

The Department for Communities is carrying out a programme of work aimed at refreshing the policy frameworks for the voluntary and community sector support. The Department is committed to engaging with a wide range of organisations in the sector, including those supported through its existing funding programmes as well as those that are not. They […]

‘Where’s Our Democracy?’ Campaign

In February 2023, the Women’s Policy Group launched the ‘Where’s Our Democracy?’ campaign, which is a campaign focused on improving the quality of democracy in Northern Ireland by restoring the spirit of the Belfast/ Good Friday Agreement and achieving stable, functioning government in the long term. Currently, Northern Ireland does not have a stable, functioning […]

Women are struggling to feed their children and heat their homes – demand Stormont gets back to work to help

Over the last few weeks Women’s Support Network on behalf of the Women’s Regional Consortium have been carrying out research with women across Northern Ireland on the impact of the Cost of Living Crisis. We have talked to around 250 local women about the impact of rising prices on them personally, their children and families. […]

New Campaign: Guarantee Our Essentials

Siobhán is now part of a new 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.  The UK Government would be […]

April Funding Opportunities

APRIL 2023   Scheme Funder Note Date Ironmongers Company: STEM Projects Ironmongers Company Application deadline 1 Apr 2023 Council of Europe: European Youth Foundation Council of Europe Deadline for applications midnight CET 1 Apr 2023 European Youth Foundation: International Activity Grant European Youth Foundation Application deadline midnight on 1 Apr 2023 Austin and Hope Pilkington […]

FWIN / TWN Visit New York with 20 female participants from the WICT programme

Participants from diverse backgrounds drawn from throughout Northern Ireland who took part in the WICT programme exchanged experiences, knowledge and good practices under the CSW67 priority theme “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.”   TWN / FWIN held two […]