
Do you need furniture for your organisation? Can you get to Ballymena on 12 December to pick it up?

Culture Minister Maria Eagle MP has had discussions on 8 November 2006 with the Ulster-Scots Agency.

Belfast City Council has opened its Development and Outreach Initiative to applications.

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has launched the implementation plan for sustainable development in Northern Ireland.

New services are available to asssist community groups and non-profit organisations interested in installing renewable energy technologies.

The countryside of Northern Ireland is changing. Rapid development is putting our countryside and the quality of our environment under greater and greater pressure.

Student representatives scored notable successes in a recent lobby with assembly members at Stormont.

Operating grants are now available from the European Commission for European public policy research and civil society organisations.

The Charity Commission has issued a warning about a fake email charity lottery that it says is more plausible than many because it uses the names of two bona fide charities.

The search is on for the highest achievers in business performance from across Northern Ireland as the part of the EXCEL Management and Leadership Award 2006.

As the creation of a Bill of Rights re-emerges as a live issue in Northern Ireland, the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland will enable and enliven debate on the creation of the Bill.
The first organisations to receive funding through the Department for Social Development’s £3 million Modernisation Fund have been announced.

STOP PRESS -- These events have now been rescheduled: See this article.
1st December 2006 is World AIDS day.

UCD is conducting research into the therapeutic use of farming and horticulture or animal assisted therapy. We would be very interested in hearing from any group or individual, no matter how small that is involved in work of this nature.

A conference at NICVA has considered the implications for the sector in an era when, increasingly, voluntary organisations are delivering Public Services.

The Government made a commitment at St. Andrews that it will establish a forum on a Bill of Rights and convene its inaugural meeting in December 2006. Take part in the consultation.

Gordon Brown and the Cabinet Office have joined forces to praise and support social enterprises in the United Kingdom

L8 and Live on UTV would like a full audience for the last show in the current series.

The arts sector is rallying together in the face of further cuts to Northern Ireland’s arts budget.