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On 19 June the Assembly’s Social Development Committee will hold its weekly meeting at NICVA’s premises, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast. NICVA will make a presentation to the DSD Committee on funding for the sector, as it has already done with the Finance and Personnel Committee.
We will use the opportunity to point out that many organisations are facing the end of funding programmes in the very near future and there are few alternative sources of funding available. Vital work such as peace building, work with victims, community development and community learning will be left under threat, with no mainstream government money filling the hole left by the ending of funding streams.
NICVA will strongly recommend that the Northern Ireland Executive must take a co-ordinated and strategic approach to the sector and its future needs. Otherwise important work will simply disappear in a piecemeal fashion as funding ends, leaving vulnerable groups without services or collective voices and leaving organisations seriously weakened in their capacity to act.
As with most Committee sessions, this is open to the public. There will be much less restriction on space than there normally is at Stormont so voluntary and community organisations are invited along to observe the proceedings in action. The meeting starts at 11.00am and groups are invited to take seats from 10.30am.
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