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NICVA has submitted its response to the Charities SORP-making body on The Exposure Draft Statement of Recommended Practice 2026: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (the Exposure Draft SORP). 

Finance Minister, John O’Dowd and Alison Fraser, Senior Head of Funding at The National Lottery Community Fund, have launched the third phase of Dormant Assets funding in Northern Ireland.  

East Belfast Community Development Agency (EBCDA) launch their Communities in Transition, Community Development Capacity Building Toolkit.

NICVA member The Little Forget Me Nots Trust is dedicated to ensuring no bereaved parent ever feels they have to navigate baby loss alone. Their trauma-informed, community-led support begins where clinical care ends - offering creative, compassionate spaces for families to process grief and begin learning to live with grief.

The Henry Smith Foundation, formerly known as the Henry Smith Charity, has published its new strategy, Elevate Your Impact (2025-2030) which ‘reaffirms their commitment to backing people and organisations driving change in communities across the UK.’ The first three new programmes under the new funding priorities have also been announced.

The John Ellerman Foundation has launched a new funding strategy for 2025-2030 offering multi-year core costs funding that supports work with a national relevance addressing social justice and the environment. UK charities with an annual income of between £100,000 and £10 million can apply for up to £180,000.

After nearly two decades of delays, the long waited draft Anti Poverty Strategy for NI was published this week with Communities Minister Gordon Lyons' statement before the Assembly. 

The Department for Communities has launched a public consultation on the draft strategy which is open from now until 19 September 2025. 

NICVA's Director of Policy and Insight Jonny Currie highlights the value of VCS organisations delivering economic inactivity projects, and introduces a key messages paper for continued VCS-led delivery of support for those furthest from the labour market. 

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