Insight and latest updates from our team
Will the BBC get blown away by the gathering storm?
By ScopeNI 19 Aug 2015 Nick Garbutt
Just how serious is the threat to the BBC posed by the Westminster government and should we be worried about it?
NICVA staff and Board saddened by the death of our Honorary Vice President Dr Jeremy Harbison CB
By NICVA 17 Aug 2015 Seamus McAleavey
It is with great sadness that NICVA learned of the death of our Honorary Vice President Dr Jeremy Harbison on Saturday 14 August 2015.
The difference development makes
By NICVA 17 Aug 2015 Sandra Bailie
NICVA has been working with The Big Lottery Fund Reaching Out Connecting Older People (ROCOP) grant holders since 2011 supporting them to deliver their outcomes and effectively manage and deliver their projects.
Whatever happened to Heenan Anderson?
By ScopeNI 14 Aug 2015 Nick Garbutt
Whatever happened to the Heenan-Anderson Commission?
Two years of death and serious injury on Northern Ireland’s roads
By NICVA 14 Aug 2015 Andrea Thornbury
The second Detail Data story Two years of death and serious injury on Northern Ireland’s roads was published yesterday.
NI's rejection of marriage equality 'a breach of religious rights'
By ScopeNI 13 Aug 2015 Ryan Miller
Local failure to bring forth marriage equality legislation matching the rest of the UK is set to be challenged in the High Court this autumn, on the basis that it is an infringement of the right to freely practice religion.
GrantTracker users find funding success
By NICVA 13 Aug 2015 Sandra Bailie
In June NICVA surveyed all GrantTracker subscribers to ask them what they thought of GrantTracker, what funding they had sourced through GrantTracker, the impact of GrantTracker and any suggestions they had for improvements.
Mental health charities working Together for You in Northern Ireland
By NICVA 13 Aug 2015
In 2013, nine leading mental health organisations came together to bid for an innovative mental health and wellbeing contract funded by the Big Lottery Fund. There was a recognition that together they could offer much more to beneficiaries.
Why we need to know the truth about Kincora
By ScopeNI 12 Aug 2015 Nick Garbutt
Why is Secretary of State Theresa Villiers so determined to ensure that allegations about child abuse at Kincora Boys Home in Belfast does not form part of the UK investigation?
How good is your governance?
By NICVA 7 Aug 2015 Denise Copeland
Recent media coverage of a large charity in England having to shut down because of financial issues has hopefully prompted those sitting on boards of charities to think about their own governance practice.
Shifting sands: NI's political landscape on marriage equality is changing
By ScopeNI 6 Aug 2015 Ryan Miller
Last week Scope highlighted the view that marriage equality in Northern Ireland is "inevitable" - are changes in the past week a sign of this inevitability in action?
Should we have the right to die on our own terms?
By ScopeNI 5 Aug 2015 Ryan Miller
Debate about right to die - and the right to help our loved ones do so, if they wish - is growing in the UK. Scope looks at a deceptively simple point of principle and its complex fine details.
Crisis Fund: can a little go a very long way?
By ScopeNI 31 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
Earlier this year OFMdFM released a small amount of funds to help vulnerable ethnic-minority migrants in crisis. Scope speaks with fund administrators the Red Cross about its success.
Automatic Enrolment Compliance and Enforcement
By NICVA 30 Jul 2015 Una McKernan
Key Points from The Pension Regulator’s Automatic Enrolment Compliance and Enforcement quarterly bulletin: 1 January – 31 March 2015.
Cancer Focus gets its message across
By NICVA 30 Jul 2015 Sandra Bailie
Social media training was delivered to a group of Reaching Out: Connecting Older People grant holders to help build their confidence using social media and give them tips and techniques as to how to use Facebook and Twitter more effectively.
Improving skills and confidence through TQUK
By NICVA 30 Jul 2015 Sandra Bailie
NICVA delivered the three -day TQUK Level 3 Award in Education and Training as part of the Reaching Out: Connecting Older People (RO:COP) development and support contract.
Featured Member - Start360
By NICVA 29 Jul 2015 Shauna O'Neill
Start360 puts YOU - their clients and stakeholders - at the centre of everything they do. They are Northern Ireland’s leading provider of support services to young people, adult offenders and their families.
Does automatic enrolment apply to you?
By NICVA 29 Jul 2015 Una McKernan
All employers will need to work out if automatic enrolment (AE) applies to them. If you have at least one member of staff who is paid via a PAYE scheme, AE duties apply.
The inevitable equality - why NI will embrace same-sex marriage
By ScopeNI 29 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
A key figure in the successful marriage equality campaign in the Republic of Ireland says Northern Ireland will move into line with the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
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