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| Interrupted telephone service | Article | We have been made aware of a fault with our telephone service which means we are temporarily unable to make or accept outgoing calls. Please use email to contact staff. If you urgently need to reach | Draft |
| Interrupted telephone service | Article | We have been made aware of a fault with our telephone service which means we are temporarily unable to make or accept outgoing calls. Please use email to contact staff. If you urgently need to reach | Draft |
| SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (REF: SDO ’12) | Article | NICVA is recruiting a Skills Development Officer. This is a full-time, fixed term post, funded until March 2014. Salary equivalent to NJC points 29-31 (£24,646-26,276). | Draft |
| ECONOMIC RESEARCH OFFICER (REF: ERO’12) | Article | NICVA is recruiting an Economic Research Officer. This is a full-time, fixed term 3 year post. Salary equivalent to NJC scale point 29-34 (£24,646 - £28,636). | Draft |
| Social Enterprise Awards Northern Ireland 2012 | Article | The Social Enterprise Awards Northern Ireland 2012 gala awards ceremony will take place at Belfast Castle on Thursday 11 October 2012.The Awards highlight and promote excellence in the social economy sector acro | Draft |
| Joint Forum seeks new sector reps | Article | NICVA is currently seeking nominations from the voluntary and community sector to represent the sector at the Joint Government Voluntary and Community Sector Forum (Joint Forum).The Joint Forum Voluntary and Com | Draft |
| NICVA shortlisted for Irish News Awards | Article | NICVA is delighted to have been shortlisted under two categories for the 6th annual Irish News Workplace and Employment Awards: Work, Life & Wellbeing (Small/Medium Organisation) & Best Place to Work (Small Organisation). | Draft |
| The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service | Article | Volunteer Now and NICVA have participated in assessing applications for these prestigious awards since the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service was established in 2002 and would like you to nominate your local volunteer groups now. | Draft |
| Sir Kenneth Branagh speaks to NICVA on his Knighthood | Article | Sir Kenneth Branagh speaks to NICVA about his recent Knighthood for services to drama and his community work in Northern Ireland. | Draft |
| Voluntary and community nominations sought for Social Investment Fund steering groups | Article | Applications are currently being sought for voluntary and community sector representatives to sit on the Social Investment Fund Steering Groups. The closing date is 29 June 2012.The Social Investment Fund (SIF) has been set up t | Draft |
| Sector rallies to mitigate worsening financial picture | Article | Almost half of NICVA member organisations report that their financial situation has worsened over the last 12 months. However, the latest Viewfinder results show that the sector has rallied to mitigate the worst of these problems. | Draft |
| NICVA has a Hearty Lunch | Article | As part of Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke (NICHS) Hearty Lunch fundraiser, NICVA staff tucked into an array of health treats today, Thursday 14 June. | Draft |
| Coca-Cola £103,000 fund deadline extended | Article | Coca-Cola has said the high level of interest in the 'Coca-Cola Thank You Fund' means they will now be accepting entries until midnight on 20 July. £103k/€125k is available to voluntary and community groups promoting active lifestyles throughout Ire | Draft |
| U turn on tax cap a major success for charities | Article | Chancellor George Osborne has today announced the dropping of plans to introduce a cap on tax relief on charitable giving, having listened to the views and strong objections from Charities. | Draft |
| ‘Living Spaces’, Urban Stewardship and Design Manual for Northern Ireland consultation | Article | NICVA would like to invite members - and the wider voluntary and community sector - to submit an initial consultation response to inform the early stage of this design manual. | Draft |
| Five Nations representatives fight against fuel poverty at Stormont | Article | The Northern Ireland Fuel Poverty Coalition, of which NICVA is a member, met Alex Maskey MLA at a Stormont event this week. It was attended by MLAs, MPs, local government, public bodies, health sector representatives and voluntary and community organis | Draft |
| A volunteer's experience at NICVA | Article | My name is Michael Cromie and I was assigned a voluntary post in the IT department at NICVA to learn how to use drupal - a content management system used by NICVA to manage their websites. The Cedar Foundation helped obtain this job | Draft |
| Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme is a missed opportunity | Article | A government scheme to top-up small donations through Gift Aid misses the mark, according to NICVA's response. | Draft |
| NI Assembly Open Data Service launched | Article | NICVA welcomes the Northern Ireland Assembly launch of the Open Data Project on 21 May 2012. This first phase offers developers access to information about MLAs, Assembly questions and answers, names of Departments, Committees, Political Parties | Draft |
| Half price on NICVA's conference facilities | Article | NICVA is offering a 50% discount on its conference room hire for bookings in July and August. | Draft |
| Getting your finances in order | Article | Sector Matters is about to begin its second year of delivering the Building Financial Capability in the Age Sector project with Charity Bank. This project offers financial health checks for organisations who work with older people. | Draft |
| Cookies – it’s complicated! | Article | From 26 May new regulations on website cookies began to be enforced. To help organisations understand the regulations and get started on compliance we have provided some background information on the new rules, what this means for organisations and lin | Draft |
| Adult Learners' Week: being the best that we can be | Article | Guest speakers at NICVA’s certificate presentation ceremony - held as part of Adult Learners' Week - spoke of their confidence after taking part in training to deliver more effectively in their organisations. | Draft |
| Training for groups working with older people | Article | NICVA is delighted to promote training opportunities available from other voluntary and community sector groups for those working with and on behalf of older people. | Draft |
| Celebrating Adult Learners' Week | Article | NICVA is celebrating Adult Learners' Week this year - beginning 12 May - with various training events. | Draft |
| Fundraising advice staff coming to a town near you - Book now for an appointment | Article | NICVA's fundraising advice team is coming to a town near you. If you are in Ballycastle, Antrim, Banbridge, Castlereagh/East Belfast or Enniskillen you could benefit from direct one-to-one advice on a funding application or fundraising proposal. Early | Draft |
| Giving more to communities in difficult times | Article | New research shines a light on Northern Ireland as a giving nation and highlights the appetite many people have to respond to increased need in their community by giving more money, time or energy to the causes they care about. | Draft |
| Consultation on Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme opened | Article | Could what started as a great idea to simplify the claiming of Gift Aid on small cash collections become the latest Gift Aid headache for small charities, local groups and "newbies" to Gift Aid? NICVA has prepared a briefing paper on the Small Donation | Draft |
| Springfield Charitable Association Tri-age West Belfast launch | Article | Springfield Charitable Association launched its Tri-Age west Belfast project on Friday 20 April 2012 in the Farset International. | Draft |
| Community bridge builder – a project offering hope to thousands of older people with mental health problems | Article | A new outreach project designed to help the tens of thousands of older people across Northern Ireland who are actively engaged with mental health services launched at the Long Gallery, Stormont on 26 April. | Draft |
| Data Protection training for COP groups | Article | Recently, NICVA's Information Officer Seana McAuley designed and delivered a data protection training session to groups funded by The BIG Lottery Reaching Out: Connecting Older People programme. | Draft |
| Tackling Educational Disadvantage | Article | Draft | |
| Launch of Crossroads ‘In Your Prime’ Project | Article | Tuesday 27 March 2012 saw the official launch of Crossroads ‘In Your Prime’ Project in their state of the art premises at 432 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast. TV Presenter and journalist Lynda Bryans officially launched the project and highlig | Draft |
| Inspire, engage and celebrate: Adult Learners' Week | Article | The launch of Adult Learners' Week takes place on Tuesday 15 May in the Long Gallery at Stormont. The designated week is the UK's largest annual festival of learning, inspiring thousands of people every year to find out how learning can change their li | Draft |
| NICVA staff get set for Sunshine | Article | What are you doing on May Day? The Belfast City Marathon is one of the biggest fundraising events in Northern Ireland, attracting runners of all abilities to raise money for their chosen charities. NICVA staff have entered relay teams to the | Draft |
| NICVA Acts Up | Article | On 24 April NICVA held ‘ActUpNI: Campaigning Lobbying and Dissent’ bringing the voluntary and community sector together to discuss the effectiveness of its campaigning and lobbying strategies, investigate what has worked, where improvements could b | Published |
| NICVA hosts voluntary and community sector tweetup | Article | The pizza crumbs are barely hoovered up and already people are talking about the 'next Tweetup', after the success of the meeting hosted by NICVA on Wednesday for over 95 representatives of the voluntary and community sector on aspects of using social | Draft |
| Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme consultation | Article | HMRC has launched a consultation to seek responses on the proposed ‘Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme’. | Draft |
| Assembly Extra gives insight to the work of the NI Assembly | Article | Go behind the scenes with this new web-based programme produced by the NI Assembly and find out, among other things, how a Bill becomes law. | Draft |
| CEE Bursary for Schumacher Ireland Summer School | Article | NICVA’s Centre for Economic Empowerment is pleased to announce bursaries of up to 95% for attendance at the Schumacher Ireland Summer School at Glencraig, Co Down from 11-15 June 2012. The theme of the | Draft |
| NJC Pay Freeze Likely to Continue for 2012/13 | Article | The Local Government Association confirmed a pay freeze for 1.6 million local government employees for 2012/13. | Draft |
| Accountability of government under scrutiny at special seminar | Article | NICVA held a special fringe event today (Thursday 5 April) as part of the prestigious Political Studies Association conference, which was addressed by The Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr John Bercow and The Lord Speaker, Baroness D’Souza. | Draft |
| NICVA backs the 'Give it back George' campaign | Article | NICVA has recently added its name to the Give it back George campaign, which is calling on the Chancellor to reverse his decision and exempt charitable donations from the plans to cap personal tax reliefs. | Draft |
| Sector Matters - Redundancy and ‘Winding up’ advice | Article | In the current climate organisations may be in the unfortunate position of having to make staff redundant or even go so far as closing down the organisation itself, known as ‘winding-up’. Sector Matters has drafted some overview advice for th | Published |
| Re-Advertisment Economic Analyst | Article | ECONOMIC ANALYST CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT (REF: EA2’12) Full-time, fixed term 3 years post. Salary equivalent to NJC points 29-31 (£24,646 - £26,276 Candidates will normally be appointed on the first point of the scale). | Draft |
| W@ve 2.0 project seeking participants | Article | As part of NICVA's involvement with Reaching Out: Connecting Older People, we're glad to share news from EGSA, who are looking for participants for the pilot programme of W@ve 2.0. | Draft |
| A look at the 2012 Budget | Article | Taking a step back from the detail of the budget it is perhaps worth looking at what it affirmed or changed in the bigger picture of the UK economy and public finances. | Draft |
| Welfare Reform Conference: relive the debate | Article | Relive the action and debate from the welfare reform conference held at NICVA on Tuesday 6 March 2012 in conjunction with Law Centre (NI). | Draft |
| Welfare Reform: Q & A with Northern Ireland politicians, Neil Couling DWP, and Professor Ruth Lister | Article | Welfare Reform: Q & A with Northern Ireland politicians, Neil Couling DWP, and Professor Ruth Lister. | Draft |
| Welfare Reform: Baroness Ruth Lister in conversation with Paul Clark | Article | Welfare Reform: Baroness Ruth Lister in conversation with Paul Clark | Draft |