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FWIN BOOK CLUB PRESENTS: Hush-A-Bye-Baby and Director’s Q+A with Margo Harkin (23rd October)

FWIN’s Book Club Book of the Month is Sinead O’Connor’s Autobiography “Rememberings.” What better way to remember Sinead, than to speak with the Derry Girls that worked with her?Set in Derry in 1984, “Hush-A-Bye-Baby” follows the…
NI women's budget group.

The Fiscal Situation on the Island of Ireland: A Gendered Analysis

The NIWBG is hosting an afternoon webinar where we examine the fiscal situations of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with a gendered analysis, following the announcement of the ROI's Budget 2024. We will be joined by two brilliant…
Siobhán pictured with Jonny Currie, Trussell Trust at the launch of the Guarantee Our Essentials Billboard in Belfast.

Appointments to the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB)

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is seeking to appoint a Chair and Two Independent Members to the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB). Public bodies, and their boards, play an important role in the lives of…
Siobhán pictured with Jonny Currie, Trussell Trust at the launch of the Guarantee Our Essentials Billboard in Belfast.

NIHE Youth Forum

The NIHE Youth Forum enables youth voices to be promoted within the Housing Executive. They engage with and hold seats on the Housing Community Networks and Central Housing Forum. The impact of this work has included enabling young people…
Cliff Edge Coalition NI

Cliff Edge

Siobhán continues to attend meetings of the Cliff Edge Coalition Working Group which is working to strengthen the existing mitigations package for Northern Ireland.  Cliff Edge recently relaunched their key asks and Siobhán recorded a video…
Siobhán pictured with Jonny Currie, Trussell Trust at the launch of the Guarantee Our Essentials Billboard in Belfast.

Coalition of Carers

Siobhán has joined the Coalition of Carers which is chaired by Carers NI and continues to attend regular meetings of the Coalition.  The Coalition is made up of a number of organisations all working to highlight the key issues that carers…
Siobhán pictured with Jonny Currie, Trussell Trust at the launch of the Guarantee Our Essentials Billboard in Belfast.

NI Child Payment

Siobhán continues to the meet with the working group for the Northern Ireland Child Payment Coalition.  The introduction of a NI Child Payment was a recommendation by the Gender Equality and Anti-Poverty Expert Panels and in the Feminist Recovery…
Siobhán pictured with Jonny Currie, Trussell Trust at the launch of the Guarantee Our Essentials Billboard in Belfast.

Guaranteeing 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…
Siobhán pictured with Jonny Currie, Trussell Trust at the launch of the Guarantee Our Essentials Billboard in Belfast.

Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Consultation

The Department of Education (DE) has launched a consultation on the circumstances and arrangements which would enable a parent or carer to excuse their child (opt-out) from receiving age-appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically accurate…
Siobhán pictured with Jonny Currie, Trussell Trust at the launch of the Guarantee Our Essentials Billboard in Belfast.

Women and Equalities Committee Inquiry into the Impact of the Rising Cost of Living on Women

The Women and Equalities Committee (Westminster) has launched a new inquiry examining the impact of the rising cost of living on women, as households continue to come under pressure from increased costs.  The Committee will examine the impact…

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