Insight and latest updates from our team

There was a great atmosphere at NICVA's first round table event for the BIG Lottery Reaching Out: Connecting Older People development and support programme. Thirty people from 16 different organisations attended the event and talked about engaging with

A conference held on 2 October, co-hosted by the Building Change Trust and CollaborationNI, explored how the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland can work collaboratively to better help the communities they serve and a new Enabling Fund w

Because of the way many projects are funded in the voluntary and community sector, a question that can arise for employers in this sector is one that relates to fixed term contracts and redundancy.

From 1 October 2013 the minimum wage will increase.

A second report from NICVA explores the links that have been forged between MLAs and voluntary and community organisations to see how they've changed in recent years.

The Centre for Economic Empowerment (CEE) held the first of its second series of masterclasses on Friday 21 September 2012. The event examined civil society’s role in influencing the global economy.

Minister for Social Development, Nelson McCausland, has welcomed a move by the Northern Ireland Executive to begin the discussion on welfare reform, and NICVA proposes that the Assembly takes this opportunity for full scrutiny of the Bill.

Will to Give, the organisation aiming to promote legacy giving in Northern Ireland is to launch a Will Notification Service in November at their Conference on the 9th November in Belfast. 

NICVA has given oral evidence and submitted its written response on the Charities Bill to the Committee for Social Development.

This is NICVA's written response to the Committee for Social Development on the Charities Bill.

The proposed amendment will not affect the requirement in the Act that no particular purpose should be presumed to be for the public benefit. 

Up and down the high street we can see the impact of the economic downturn in the number of vacant premises. But, as many of you will be aware, this is also a growing problem for some charities who are left with unoccupied properties. In this article E

Up and down the high street we can see the impact of the economic downturn in the number of vacant premises. But as many of you will be aware this is also a growing problem for some charities who are left with unoccupied premises. In this article Ed Co

New session – new members! 

Key stakeholders, including voluntary and community groups, programme delivery bodies and the Special EU Programmes Support Body, had their say on how the PEACE programme is working to date and what they would like to see in the upcoming Peace IV progr

NICVA’s Centre for Economic Empowerment second masterclass series begins this September. The series offers a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with s

NICVA’s Centre for Economic Empowerment’s second masterclass series for voluntary and community organisations begins this September.  The series will examine some of the key economic issues we face today with the aim of ensuring the sector is

In a new series of articles published in NICVA's weekly eNews Colm Burns, Policy Officer with NICVA’s 

The sector has clear views on the future of the economy and NICVA is making sure that its voice is heard. Peter Hutchinson explains.

NICVA is currently seeking nominations for voluntary and community sector representatives on the Department of Justice’s Regional Steering Group on Community Safety.