By Fiona Veitch from NICVA
Published on 20 Oct 2008
The theme of NICVA's annual conference this year will be 'The Value of Voluntary and Community organisations - our role in the future'.
21 November 2008
Building on the work of the Carnegie Inquiry into the future of civil society in the UK and Ireland, NICVA will begin to explore what the voluntary and community sector's role should be in Northern Ireland.
Are organisations just cheap service providers or do they bring more fundamental values of association, collaboration and build the behaviours that underpin democracy?
These questions will be asked in a Northern Ireland context to try to establish that the sector is a vitally important part of the new devolved Northern Ireland.
Speakers will include a senior government representative and George Reid, former Speaker of the Scottish Parliament and Vice-Chair of the Carnegie Commission.
This will be a half day conference in the morning of 21 November.
A special Annual Conference section of the website is now live and will be updated with further details on speakers, workshops, background information, car pooling opportunities and other items as and when they become available.
A .pdf version of the conference booking form can be downloaded here.
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