Insight and latest updates from our team

This briefing highlights the key areas of both the statutory guidance on public benefit and the charity registration guidance.

NICVA has been involved in a number of voluntary and community sector consultation events across Northern Ireland on the development of a Childcare Strategy for Northern Ireland.

It is critical that organisations correctly determine whether the individuals providing services are employees, self-employed or volunteers.

NICVA brought together the statisticians and the sector to see what the Census has to offer, what information can be mined from it and how it might help form evidence based policy positions.

Transforming Your Care (TYC) has been described as the biggest change in health and social care delivery in a generation and will have a massive impact on the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland.

It’s been a very exciting day in NICVA's policy and research team following the release of the 2011 Census data.

NICVA’s Centre for Economic Empowerment (CEE) hosted its second annual economic conference in Belfast yesterday focusing on the issue of job creation in Northern Ireland. 

In the final Viewfinder survey of 2012 the uneven impact of the current financial situation in the voluntary and community sector over the last year continued to be apparent.

Will to Give, the organisation that promotes legacy giving in Northern Ireland, has launched a will notification service at their conference in Belfast. The WillGiftsNI service will for the first time inform charities who have been named in wills proba

NICVA is currently seeking nominations for voluntary and community sector representatives on the Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Consultative Forum, linked to the Criminal Justice Board. The Board’s membership consists of Chief Executive l

Social Development Minister, Nelson McCausland, has addressed the Joint Government Voluntary and Community Sector Forum at NICVA this morning.

The concept of ‘personal responsibility’ is commonly invoked in discussions of social, moral and economic matters.

Tuesday 9 October saw the debate about welfare reform carry on late into the night as members deliberated over the proposed amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill by Sinn Féin.

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.

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.

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

New session – new members! 

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

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

NICVA is very pleased to announce that State of the Sector VI, the only comprehensive picture of the scale and scope of the economic activities of the Northern Ireland voluntary and community sector, is now available.