
Minister Goggins has announced that children across Northern Ireland are to benefit from an additional £1million for speech & language therapy services. [This funding was first announced in March 2006.]

Health Minister Paul Goggins, announced an additional £0.5m for Young Carers from the Children and Young People Funding Package. [This is some further detail on the programme first announced in March 2006]
Minister for Children and Young People, Maria Eagle, has announced further detail of the £4 million funding package targeted at families and parents first announced in March 2006.
The final report of Bertha McDougall who was the Interim Commissioner for Victims and Survivors has been formally submitted to the Secretary of State today.

The Sports Council would now like to invite stage one applications for other elite facilities, relating to a number of sports.

The Deutsche Bank Spotlight Awards are created to recognise, encourage and reward young people who have spoken out and taken action to change, create or improve something in their school, club or community.

Consultation is currently open on the Operational Plan for new round of mainstream structural funds for Northern Ireland.

Combat Poverty is the lead public body for promoting research on poverty. As part of its research programme, Combat Poverty annually invites applications for its Poverty Research Initiative from qualified individuals and organisations with a background in social policy research.

Finance Minister David Hanson and Irish Finance Minister, Brian Cowen welcome the launch of the Peace III Consultation Launch

The Community Festivals Fund has developed an extensive range of training opportunities for organisations and individuals involved in running community festivals. Two levels if fundraising training are available.