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Did you know that 21 September each year marks the International Day of Peace? Springboard Opportunities has launched its local campaign to raise awareness and increase civic observance of Peace Day each year, and invites you to come on board.

'Check and check again children are being protected’ The Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, Patricia Lewsley, today expressed her deep shock at the findings of a report into the tragic deaths of Madeline and Lauren O’Neill.

Eileen Sung, Head of the Gender Equality Unit within the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, will be speaking at the women's policy forum on 22 April at NICVA.

The Arts Council has announced that it has fulfilled its pledge to plough the hard-won uplift of £1.7m it secured through the NI Budget 2008-11 straight back into the arts in Northern Ireland.

The Department of Finance and Personnel has indicated that the consultation in Northern Ireland on dormant accounts funding will not now take place as planned early in 2008.

The Minister for Social Development, Margaret Ritchie, has announced on 10 March 2008 the next steps in tackling deprivation in Northern Ireland’s 36 most disadvantaged communities. Among the measures announced are plans to move Neighbourhood Renewal under the remit of local Councils.

The Government has announced in its Spring 2008 budget that Gift Aid will remain at 28p in the pound for a 3 year transitional period. Awareness campaigns on Gift Aid however are only being supported in England.

Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Edwin Poots, MLA and the Chairman of the Ulster-Scots Agency Mark Thompson have met to discuss the increased funding in the budget for the Ulster Scots Agency.

A new policy forum for organisations working with men met for the first time in NICVA on 4 March.

Revisions have been made to the funding priorities of some of the Big Lottery Fund's Awards For All distributors, and will be effective from 1st April 2008, the Guidance notes and application forms are currently being updated.

The Sports Minister Edwin Poots MLA has announced that the NI Assembly will provide £4.2million to sport to compensate for Lottery sports money which has been redirected to the 2012 London Olympics.

NICVA estimates the loss of revenue to Good Causes due to the London 2012 Olympics as £2billion across the UK or £80m in Northern Ireland.

Details are emerging of how the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust will slash funding to vountary sector organisations delivering frontline services.

A total of 52 projects across Northern Ireland have so far been awarded grants totalling £2,571,045 through the Big Lottery Fund’s £5m Improving Community Buildings programme.

The Community Development and Health Network is opening a new round of funding through its Building the Community-Pharmacy Partnership Programme (BCPP)

Is your organisation faced with a cut in funding because of efficiency savings your statutory funder is required to make? Let us know.
The Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister has opened the 2008/2009 funding round for work with ethnic minority communities.

The Department for Social Development has released its research into the work of support organisations within the voluntary and community sector, originally completed by Deloitte in February 2007.

The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) is currently consulting on a revised grant scheme for the Historic Buildings grant aid scheme.
Nationwide Building Society has teamed up with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to launch the Nationwide Community and Heritage Awards 2008, inviting the public to nominate people or groups who deserve recognition for community or voluntary work that has made a real difference to people’s lives.
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