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Training for project managers in the voluntary and community sector in Donegal and Monaghan

VSB is inviting applications to two of the Trust funds it administers; namely Pilgrim Trust Small Grants and The Women Caring Trust.

This month we are focusing on one of our new members - Healing through Remembering. Healing Through Remembering (HTR) is an extensive cross-community project made up of a diverse range of individual members with different political perspectives and social experiences.

With Northern Ireland now officially smokefree, the Ulster Cancer Foundation is confidently predicting that the country will reap substantial benefits from the new law.

Assembly restoration holds back the introduction of a Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Community Relations Week is an opportunity to showcase some of the fantastic good relations work being undertaken across Northern Ireland

Digital Unite is partnering with Ofcom to deliver the sixth annual Silver Surfers' Day, on Friday 25 May 2007. Devised in 2002 by DU, Silver Surfers' Day is the biggest annual media literacy campaign aimed at older people.

The International Fund for Ireland Building Bridges programme managed by the Community Relations Council is to open to Expressions of Interest in May.

BIG has begun a review of the Reaching Communities Northern Ireland programme.

A draft code of governance was launched for consultation by the Developing Governance Group at a special seminar held in NICVA.

Today saw the final event in the joint ARK/NICVA initiative to provide an introduction to basic research skills to voluntary and community sector organisations.
Offers a programme of grant–giving to charities, hospitals and individuals in the UK. Funds in the areas of Neurology, Haematology and Literacy only.

Lisburn has celebrated the efforts of its volunteers at a gala dinner and awards ceremony for the Mayor’s Award for Volunteering 2007, organised by Lisburn City Council and held in Lagan Valley Island.

NICVA’s calendar of half or full day workshops on topics that have been identified as an area of demand or need in the voluntary and community sector.
NICVA | Sandra Bailie | 23 Apr 2007

The Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) is hosting a public consultation event at the Glenavon House Hotel, Cookstown on Thursday 26th April as part of its consultation on the proposed new INTERREG Operational Programme. The event will take place between 12.30pm and 4.30pm and will comprise a series of presentations on the proposed programme and a question and answer session.
John McKeever from Belfast and former advisor to organisations such as WHO & UNAIDS, is one of only four people chosen by the Vodafone World of Difference programme

More and more people are seeing that there is plenty we can do to help become more sustainable, whether as individuals and families or through local groups and in our communities. A new website can help you to make more environmentally friendly choices by working together with others.

The Consumer Council says that customers here could have paid anything up to £210 million in unauthorised overdraft charges over the last six years. However, the true payout may never be known because some customers are being asked to sign confidentiality agreements to gain refunds.
The Rayne Foundation has today announced major changes in its focus and how it works. All these changes are explained on a brand new website.

An extremely useful consultation day was held at NICVA on the ICT Strategy for the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland.
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