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(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

Help with Health Costs Consultation

The Department of Health has issued a consultation on Help with Health Costs.  The purpose of this consultation is to outline the potential changes to the eligibility criteria for automatic support being provided under the Help with Health…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

Draft Budget 2025-26 Consultation

The Department of Finance has issued a consultation on the draft budget for 2025-26.  The Draft 2025/26 Budget sets out the proposed funding for all the different Government departments for the financial year.  The NI Executive is encouraging…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

Consultation on a new Fuel Poverty Strategy for Northern Ireland

The Department for Communities is consulting on a new Fuel Poverty Strategy for Northern Ireland.  The draft Fuel Poverty Strategy proposes a framework for addressing fuel poverty and its impacts. Fuel poverty is the inability of a household…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

Consultation on policy changes to the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Scheme

The Department for Communities is consulting about policy changes to the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Scheme, to limit the annual Winter Fuel Payment in Northern Ireland to pensioners in receipt of Pension Credit or other means tested benefits. The…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

Holiday Hunger Survey

Sinn Fein have launched a Private Members Bill on Holiday Hunger.  This Private Members’ Bill (PMB) is about legislating to provide direct support to children and young people entitled to free school meals and their families throughout school…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

Heritage Skills in Action with WOMEN’STEC and #NotJustForBoys

WOMEN’STEC and #NotJustForBoys were delighted to take part in another Heritage Skills Joinery. Taster Day, hosted by the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division. This incredible event offered participants the…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

Violence and Safe Societies – EVAWG Event

As we begin another new year it’s good to reflect upon the year we have left behind and how much we have managed to survive and what we have accomplished in that year. One of the Consortiums most significant pieces of research this year has…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

Hospital reconfiguration framework – public events

The Department of Health is inviting people to attend a series of public events as part of the consultation on the hospital reconfiguration framework. The consultation, “Hospitals – Creating a Network for Better Outcomes”, was launched…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

School Uniform Focus group

NIRWN will be hosting a rural focus group on Free School Meals and Uniform Grants.  Siobhán Harding, Women’s Support Network will be facilitation the focus group to listen to and gather the views and experiences of rural women so they can…
(Participants and their finished pieces alongside the joinery team at the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Historic Environment Division.)

4th National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security

NIRWN represented rural women working with the Department of Foreign Affairs Ireland on the Irish government’s fourth National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security. We attended a Civil Society consultation online and followed up with…

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