Thank You Margaret – Leaving Women’s Centre Derry after 40 Years Service
This month we are saying goodbye to our centre director Margaret Logue and it’s hard, she was one of the founding members of the Women’s Centre in 1981. She is a leader, a force of nature and an absolute feminist in every sense of the…
Shaping future support: the health and disability green paper
The Department of Work and Pensions has issued this Green Paper which is exploring how the benefit system can better meet the needs of disabled people and those with long term health conditions and the ways in which the welfare system can help…
Autism Strategy Questionnaire
The Department of Health invites those with lived experience to share their views on the key priorities which should be included in the development of an autism strategy for 2023-2028.
You may be an autistic person or a family member or carer…
September Funding Deadlines
September 2021
Scheme
Funder
Note
Date
Wolfson Foundation: Health & Disability
Wolfson Foundation
Round 2: Stage 2 Application deadline
1 Sep 2021
Kelly Family Charitable Trust
Kelly Family Charitable…
Would you like the chance to influence future policy on major issues that will shape your rural community?
Would you like the chance to influence future policy on major issues that will shape your rural community?
DAERA’s Draft Rural Policy Framework is an opportunity for you to express your views on what is needed and help shape the future…
Keep the Lifeline Campaign Update
Siobhán continues to work with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and a coalition of other organisations on the Keep the Lifeline campaign to keep the pressure on Westminster Government not to cut the £20 per week increase to Universal Credit…
A Skills Strategy for Northern Ireland – Consultation Response
The Department for the Economy launched a consultation on a Skills Strategy for Northern Ireland with the ambition for a decade of innovation which aims to deliver a ten times better economy with benefits for all people. The objectives are…
Independent Review: Discretionary Support Scheme
The Minister for Communities, Deirdre Hargey MLA, has appointed an independent panel to carry out a review of the Discretionary Support scheme. They have been asked to identify areas of improvement and to make recommendations to the Department…
Climate Change (No. 2) Bill – Call for Evidence and Views
Climate Change is one of the most challenging issues facing our society, and how we address it will have implications for how we live, work and travel. It is a global problem and many countries around the world have, in recent years, introduced…
Inaugural meeting of the All-Island Women’s Forum
Led by the National Women’s Council (NWC), The Women’s Forum aims to address the under-representation of women and further develop women’s role in peacebuilding and civic society. Funded through the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation…
