Insight and latest updates from our team

Minutes and the Communique from the Joint Forum meeting on 3 May 2013.     

The Forum for Adult Learning NI, as part of Adult Learners' Week 2013, hosted a conference to look at the current health of adult learning in Northern Ireland and draw comparisons with the situation in neighbouring regions and countries.

Earlier this week I attended the launch of a booklet on Northern Ireland’s alleged ‘double transition’ to peace and neoliberalism (the ideology that society should be modelled on the market).

The first FabLabs in Ireland were officially launched on 22 May at the Ashton Centre in Belfast. FabLabs are community based workshops that give people access to the latest digital fabrication technologies.

The Executive must do more to tackle the damaging and dangerous levels of payday and illegal lending in Northern Ireland, according to a report produced by NICVA and Advice NI.

The first Viewfinder survey of 2013 continues to demonstrate the uneven impact of the current economic conditions in the voluntary and community sector.

The hottest topic in fundraising in Belfast this week is the potential of crowdfunding. Over 30 people from a wide range of charities attended NICVA’s workshop on Wednesday 1 May 2013 to hear from a number of experts in the field.

In September 2008, further to receipt of Royal Assent, the Charities Act (NI) 2008 came into being.  This article offers a brief explanation of the progress of the implementation of the main provisions of the Act.

This is NICVA's response to the Charity Commission’s 2013 consultation on the 'public benefit statutory guidance'.

A new VCG was selected in August 2012 by a sub group of the NICVA Executive Committee and the new membership spans the sector.

The Joint Government/Voluntary and Community Sector Forum, commonly known as the Joint Forum, was established in October 1998.

The chairs were barely stacked away after last year's successful Tweetup before people started asking when we could have another one, so on 10 April, over seventy people gathered at NICVA to share their experiences and advice on using social media.

NICVA started delivery of the first ILM social enterprise programme in Northern Ireland this month, when 14 people from a range of organisations joined the ILM Level 5 Certificate in Social Enterprise Support.

In the wake of Margaret Thatcher’s death much of the commentary has focused on the impact of her economic policies.

Assembly Monitor is changing! 

Have you thought about setting up a social enterprise? Have you heard people talking about the social economy and wondered ‘what is that?’ If you have, then NICVA’s training in social enterprise support might be for you.

NICVA and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have joined forces to provide a short series of free seminars on data protection for the voluntary and community sector.