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Help the Aged and New Lodge Forum were the winners of the overall categories at the 9th Annual SCOPE Awards. The Awards aim to improve the quality of publications, websites, promotional concepts and campaigning and to celebrate their successes.
Comedian Nuala McKeever (middle) presents the SCOPE Communication awards to Seamus Lynch, Help the Aged, and Katrina Newell, New Lodge Forum
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Devolution of power in Northern Ireland is a great achievement but the voluntary and community sector must make it work for them, the editor of SCOPE said today.
Speaking at the presentation of the SCOPE Communication Awards to 16 voluntary and community groups at NICVA, Paul McGill noted that 101 pressure groups are up at Stormont making their case.
"Voluntary groups need to campaign with the people they represent, lobby politicians, get on the media and push our priorities up the agenda. One thing that doesn’t change with devolution is that a problem is not a problem until it is made public and there is pressure to solve it.
We cannot begin to achieve a fair, just, harmonious and sustainable Northern Ireland unless we expose the injustices and inequalities and failures of policies and public services and force Ministers to take them seriously and act on them.
So communicating well and campaigning actively will be even more important in the coming years as the Executive and Assembly decide their priorities and allocate their limited funding."
SCOPE is a monthly social policy magazine published by the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action.
Awards were presented in nine different categories. Comedian Nuala McKeever presented the awards to the winners. This year the awards are sponsored by GPS Colour Graphics, Iconi Software and Weber Shandwick.
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