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A programme introducing basic research skills for voluntary and community organisations.

The Voluntary Sector Housing Policy Forum issued stark warning today, as it launched a joint briefing highlighting the potential implications of the draft budget and the draft investment strategy.

This updated advice note provides advice and information for the Community and Voluntary Sector of the workings of the EU Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation 2007 - 2013 - Peace III.

The NI Assembly has now closed for its Christmas Recess from: 15 December 2007 to 6 January 2008. The first Plenary Sitting is on 14 January 2008.

Good Community relations are being developed thanks to the recent visit by members of the Newry Falcon Club to the Dungoyne Veterans Club, Dundonald for a tour of Parliament Buildings Stormont.

NICVA, in partnership with local community networks, has completed a series of information events encouraging organisations to make the most of the consultation period on the draft Programme for Government.

The Exchanges Programme within Co-operation Ireland runs a small grants Programme. These grants are available for cross-border projects which focus on mutual benefit; peace & reconciliation; and diversity.

Tessa Jowell the Olympics Minister has confirmed that the contingency amount in the latest Olympic budget is likely to be needed. Other commentators have suggested that the current budget of £9.3 billion is itself likely to be insufficient.

Sustrans, the only project with a Northern Ireland dimension in the final four has won the £50m public vote.

The next meeting of the Voluntary and Community Arts Policy Forum is scheduled to take place on Monday 17 December at 2.00pm in NICVA. The agenda will focus on the impact of the Cultural Olympiad, part of the vision for London 2012.

All you ever need to know about accessing community transport in Belfast is contained in a short film produced by NVTV for North Belfast Community Transport.

The Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) and their learners are celebrating having been recognised as an Essential Skills Centre of Excellence by CCEA (Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment).

Northern Ireland Rural Women’s Network were awarded the Progressive Award for "Innovative Action With a Particular Regional Impact" at the CFNI Community Awards 2007.

Do you think there should be a network serving the needs of youth arts organisations in Northern Ireland? Do you think there are too many already?

A new fund for language and non language related actvities for schools, colleges or youth groups has been set up to encourage young people to build links between the UK and Germany.

The Equality Commission has launched a public consultation on a draft Code of Practice on Equal Pay. The consultation will end on 7 March 2008.

It is possible to improve public health and reduce the gap between rich and poor but we are clearly not doing enough to tackle the underlying causes, argues Jane Wilde, director of the Institute of Public Health. The Programme for Government needs to be toughened across all sectors to tackle the causes of poverty and ill-health and we need to focus on social development as well as economic growth.

Like developing an ice cream, creating sustainability is all about experimentation and even making a few mistakes ...

There has been a lot of controversy about how much Northern Ireland is spending on health since the draft Budget was published. When health erupts on the public it’s usually about what the media see as a good issue – where should a maternity unit be based, should a new hospital be nearer Omagh or Enniskillen, why are people dying from MRSA in hospitals? All of these are important and emotive questions, very often a matter of life and death, but other vital issues rarely surface.

A range of community projects including a scheme supporting families in the aftermath of suicide, and an initiative for young people dealing with drug and alcohol addictions, have received more than £2 million from the latest round of Big Lottery Fund Reaching Communities Grants.
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