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The Cedar Foundation has become the 1st Northern Ireland Charity to win the EFQM (European Foundation in Quality Management) Award. As well as winning the Excellence Award the charity also walked off with a special judge's award for Best Customer Focus.
The Big Lottery Fund will provide up to £25 million in the UK over 2007-2009 to fund social and medical research grants for UK voluntary and community organisations.
Thanks to a £430,000 donation from NICVA and financial support from the Atlantic Philanthropies the new Turkington Fund will encourage active participation in society by older people.
NICVA First Line Management participants were given their coveted and highly regarded award certificates at a function in NICVA.
The radically revamped and updated website of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) launches on Monday 1 October has a host of new features that users will appreciate.
A Belfast woman who was employed by Action Cancer has been awarded £30,892 by an Industrial Tribunal which found that she suffered sex discrimination in a recruitment exercise and was unfairly dismissed from her post with the charity.
The Volunteer Development Agency today published research into volunteering in Northern Ireland. The main findings revealed that volunteering here is worth around £937 million, but that volunteering levels have declined since 2001.
Following a very lively and informative session held in NICVA on 4 September you still have an opportunity to give us your perspective on skills needs and training development in the voluntary and community sector.
The WEA (Workers’ Educational Association) is winning the fight against gremlins through their Essential Skills courses. 1 in 4 adults in Northern Ireland have problems with reading, writing and maths. One learner who has overcome these problems with the WEA is Rab Robinson.
The NJC employers made an improved offer at a meeting of the NJC Executive on 24 August 2007. The offer consists of a 3.4% increase on scale point 4, giving a new bottom rate of £6 an hour and a 2.475% increase on all other pay points. The offer is not staged.
The Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation [NICTT] in conjunction with the DHSSPSNI is offering the Accredited Certificate in Cognitive Therapy Methods (CCTM) to mental health and social care practitioners working in the Northern Ireland community and voluntary sectors.
All banks and building societies should be covered by a new scheme to give dormant accounts to good causes, the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action said today.
Take the opportunity to shape the development of skills in the voluntary and community sector.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has welcomed the Treasury Select Committee report on unclaimed assets, particularly its support for the creation of a Social Investment Bank.
Loughguile Millennium Centre provided the backdrop for Triangle Housing Association to present 16 staff with First Line Management Certificates. This management programme delivered by NICVA represents the organisation’s commitment to continuous professional development and ensuring delivery of high quality services.
CIVICUS has warned that funding has become increasingly complex for US grant-making bodies and those they fund around the world since the attacks on the World Trade Centre on 9/11.
It may be the middle of the holiday season but people flocked to a meeting organised by the Department for Social Development to give details of the new £15 million Modernisation Fund for capital works.
Transparency and accountability in voluntary and community organisations are essential for ensuring public confidence in the sector. An organisation’s reputation is often one of its most valuable assets and conflicts of interest or perceived conflicts of interest can severely damage this reputation.
The IOF fundraising skills survey is closing to online responses on 31 July 2007. It only takes a few minutes to complete the survey.
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