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Any voluntary or community sector organisation with experience of working the natural environment, or working in partnership with an organisation with this experience can apply for a Lottery funded Breathing Places grant

The Arts Council have launched the STart UP Initiative which is a new initiative set up to provide support, including grant aid, to those organisations throughout Northern Ireland who have not yet availed of Arts Council funding, including Awards For All.

The National Lottery will fund the newly launched Olympic Legacy Trust to the tune of £34m out of a budget of £40m.

The Food Standards Agency has launched the fourth round of the Dame Sheila McKechnie Award. The awards assist community food initiatives to develop innovative approaches to tackling issues around food inequality.

Global Peacebuilders recently made a call for submissions for potential publication in its catalogue of local and international approaches to peacebuilding.

District Policing Partnerships (DPPs) are partnerships between the local council and the community. We are looking for members of the public who can represent their community and convey local opinion on policing issues most affecting their area.

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 Cultural Olympiad and the Programme for Government.

An overview of upcoming business at the Assembly from 19 November 2007 to 23 November 2007.
NICVA | Sean Kelly | 19 Nov 2007

NICVA's briefing paper for the consultation on the first statements from the new devolved Executive about what kind of Northern Ireland they want to see, what they intend to do and how they intend to pay for it.

The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland has announced that its annual Community Awards will this year highlight the contribution of women and women’s groups and organisations. Nominations are now invited.

Help the Aged offers a cautious welcome to research on winter mortality undertaken by the Department of Social Development.

The European Commission has announced a call for applications for transnational activities to the European Refugee Fund.

DEL is pursuing a policy too narrowly focused on the skills needed for the economy at the expense of citizenship, personal and community development and creativity, argues Johnston Price, director of the Ulster People’s College, whose funding is also affected by the DEL decision.

EGSA is celebrating 40 years of educational guidance for adults, but its funding is due to end in March 2008 and there is still no timetable for tendering to provide services after that date. Eleanor Speers, assistant director, fills in the background.

The WEA, facing a decision by the Department for Employment and Learning to end its funding next year, has launched a campaign to protect learning. Director Stevie Johnston sets out the case for continued funding and calls for support.

Community, voluntary or statutory agencies from the SHSSB region is inviting applications for funding from two parts of the Children and Young People's Funding Package

SEUPB has opened calls for applications for major capital projects under the Peace III Programme. The call is primarily targeted at public bodies wishing to develop projects to the value of around €10m.

Kenneth Branagh recently threw his support behind the great work being done for Northern Ireland charities by employers, schools, colleges, clubs and societies. Kenneth also announced an extension to the deadline for the NICVA Link Awards 2008 in association with BT, now celebrating their 21st birthday.

What do young people want to say to the world? As participants in a giant national conversation what questions would they ask? What messages would they send? And how would they choose to communicate their ideas? Inspired by those questions, we invite your group to be part of Operation Soapbox, a national project to explore how we express ourselves and how new ideas form.

Shopmobility Belfast are delighted to announce they are one of only eight charities in the province to be shortlisted for the final of Peoples Milllions on UTV.
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