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PlayBoard NI

As society emerges from a lengthy lockdown, where a number of School Age Childcare (SAC) providers had to close temporarily in order to survive, we are keen to understand the future needs of SAC-provision.
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AbilityNetNI

Gordon Curry from Northern Ireland, a volunteer with AbilityNetNI has recently set up Alexa for a Lady living with Multiple Sclerosis and confined to bed.
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Consumer Council for Northern Ireland

University of Sussex are looking for study participants in Northern Ireland for a research project.
‘AT HOME’ SUPERHEROES WANTED!
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Leonard Cheshire

Grab your mask and cape and stay super-active this summer from the convenience of your own home!
Pictured from left to right: Vickie Chambers, Supporter Relationship Manager at Ulster Wildlife, Martin from Outwork, and Alpha tenant Val.
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Open Strategic Communications

Alpha Housing has joined Ulster Wildlife’s ‘Let Nature In’ campaign to help reverse the decline in wildlife by creating nature-friendly gardens in its 40 sites across Northern Ireland.
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Easilink Community Transport

NEW Transport Scheme to help people access local hospital and health appointments!
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NICVA

Interested In A FREE Leadership Course With ILM Accreditation? If you are aged 18 or over and living or working in the Belfast City Council area, the Transformative Leadership Programme is for you!
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Open Strategic Communications

Allen & Overy’s Belfast Grants Committee is calling for charities that promote access to justice, or which support and develop education or employment projects in Northern Ireland, to apply for a share of GBP40,000 funding.
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Sonya Cassidy PR

New Big Bus gears up to travel to 200 locations across NI, delivering 2,000 health checks and 5,000 breast screenings in the next 12 months.
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Eden Project Communities

Commissioned by The Big Lunch this poll of 4,000 UK residents shows that millions of us are worried about increasing social pressure now that lockdown measures are beginning to lift, but we can all do something where we live with The Big Lunch this June.
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Social Enterprise Northern Ireland

Social Enterprise NI (SENI) is delighted to announce that local Radio/TV/Video/Webinar Presenter, and businesswoman Cate Conway has agreed to join an Ambassador panel with immediate effect.
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Did you know that MS Teams used to be Skype for Business? Teams has certainly come a long way since the old Skype days and works wonderfully with a host of integrated software packages. Learn more about combining free MS Teams with cutting-edge solutions.
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Volunteer Now Enterprises Ltd

As part of our new Training Schedule, we have included a NEW Leadership Series of courses!
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Volunteer Now Enterprises Ltd

Volunteer Now Enterprises Ltd have just released new training dates for the forthcoming year! All training will be online, delivered via Zoom.
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AbilityNetNI

Technology plays a vital role in keeping people connected as Covid-19 keeps us apart and it’s led to a record year for AbilityNetNI’s FREE tech help who have helped 6,878 individuals, which is 27% more than the previous year.
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AbilityNetNI

25 Years As A Volunteer. David Brew reached an exciting milestone this month;
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Sonya Cassidy PR

The funds will support the charity's ongoing support services which have experienced greater demand during the pandemic.
Telecoms and Brexit
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Customs checks, border controls, new tariffs, paperwork & contracts and renewed pricing. To be honest, it's all been a bit of a headache.
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Eden Project Communities

Save the date for The Big Lunch 2021
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The King's Trust

A new report from The Prince’s Trust and the Learning and Work Institute warns that young people will increasingly bear the brunt of the unemployment crisis, at a growing cost to the UK economy.
NICVA's Individual Giving 2021 research
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NICVA

People in Northern Ireland gave significantly less to charity during the last 12 months compared to the same period in 2019. That’s according to new research from NICVA into charitable giving in Northern Ireland.
Free Transformative Leadership Programme
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NICVA

If you are aged 18 or over and living or working in the Belfast City Council area, the Transformative Leadership Programme is for you.
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Belfast Central Mission

Lisburn man David Gallagher is undertaking the herculean task of having informal catch ups via Zoom for a period of 36 hours in a fundraising effort for Copelands, a new residential and dementia care project from Belfast Central Mission (BCM).
Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review Celebrates its Fifteenth Anniversary with a Special Collection
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Centre for Global Education

Policy and Practice has become one of development education’s most articulate vehicles for debating inequalities both within and between the global North and South, encouraging active engagement on the part of learners to address these injustices. 
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Office headphones have come a long way since the late 1900s. Now they can be wireless or bluetooth, built to last and designed for comfort. And with so many of us working from home, they deliver noise-cancelling solutions just when we need them the most!