Tuesday 22nd & Thursday 24th March
10:00am-12:00 noon
This will be an in person event taking place at DiverseCity Community Partnership, Bishop Street. Light lunch & refreshments provided!
Social media can be a cost effective asset to any organisation. If used to full advantage it can reach a wide audience, publicise specific events and attract new volunteers or clients. This is an opportunity to be guided through the process of developing an effective social media plan, creating engaging content while recognising and avoiding the pitfalls.
Over two short sessions develop your social media voice and find the platform that is right for you. Please note that you must commit to attending both sessions.
If you are interested in attending, please email info@nwcn.org to book your place
If you would like to renew your NWCN membership please complete our membership form
As part of a new Climate Clever Communities project, Live Here Love Here is administering grants to groups that want to adopt an active role in combatting the climate emergency.
The overall aim of the project is to (a) educate the wider community about climate change through free Carbon Literacy Programmes training, in order to (b) empower and inspire civic action that can help Northern Ireland tackle the climate emergency.
If you can demonstrate how your application meets any of the criteria below, we would love to hear from you.
Involves and benefits your local community
Increases your community’s understanding and awareness of climate change, and how everyone can help to make a difference
Results in a measurable reduction in CO2 emissions
Includes information about how carbon awareness will continue after the initial project is implemented
Applications for the Climate Challenge Fund must be submitted by Friday 08 April, 12pm.
We're looking for five community groups to create urban space transformations with a £2000 grant from Grow Wild
Are you part of a community, youth or voluntary group? Has your group got a project idea to help connect local people with the natural world? Do you know an urban space that would be ideal for a transformation?
If the answer is yes - apply for a community project grant from Grow Wild and bring your group's ideas to life. You'll be helping us on our mission to bring people together to value and enjoy UK native plants.
Application deadline: 10am on Monday 4th April 2022
6Free vouchers and opportunities with The Big Lunch and The Big Jubilee Lunch
A: Celebrate a Month of Community June 2022
The Big Jubilee Lunch will be the official community celebration for The Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend and The Big Lunch will once again kick start a whole Month of Community so there are plenty of opportunities for EVERYONE to reconnect and celebrate the power of community this June!
Take part in The Big Lunch order your pack at www.thebiglunch.com
Your get together can be held anytime in June 2022 as part of the Month of Community and could celebrate any of the following or simply be an opportunity to get to know people where you live:
Volunteers Week
Neighbourhood Watch Week
Loneliness awareness Week
Carers Week
Small Charities week
Refugee Week
Mental health day
June is full of reasons to celebrate community and say thankyou to the people who make a difference where you live! Remember your own activity can be as simple as a few neighbours or friends getting together – size really doesn’t matter!
B: The Big Jubilee Lunch 2-5 June
Register your Jubilee plans and get free materials at www.thebigjubileelunch.com You can register even if you’re planning a small gathering to watch the activity together. You’ll receive a note in your pack from HM The Queen and you can have your activity whether private or public listed as an official part of the celebrations and added to the map.
Remember a Big Lunch is anything from a few neighbours getting together, to a celebration with the whole community.
Winners will be notified ongoing weekly from February on our Facebook page.
D: Platinum Champions Did you spot us on The One show?
The Platinum Champions Awards will be a celebration of volunteering spirit and how volunteering plays an essential role in building communities and improving quality of life for millions of people across the UK.
Watch this space for further updates and to find how you can get involved and nominate a volunteer!
Together with Royal Voluntary Service President, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, and in partnership with The Big Jubilee Lunch, the awards will celebrate outstanding volunteers across the country who are making a difference every day.
Those who take home the prize will also be invited to sit at a very special table for The Big Jubilee lunch on Sunday, 5 June, the end of the official national Jubilee celebration.
For more info click here E: Platinum Party at the Palace
Broadcast live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and supported across the entire BBC network, the Platinum Party at the Palace on Saturday, June 4th, will bring together the world's biggest entertainers to perform in front of Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace
10,000 tickets are being allocated randomly. You can register for the ballot here:
7Making it Work - More and better jobs for disabled people
The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Union for Supported Employment (NIUSE) are hosting an online webinar designed to assist employers promote positive action and reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities. The webinar will be held on Tuesday 29 March 2022 from 10am – 11.30am.
The webinar will include speakers from a range of companies and organisations and will focus on good practice and the support services available to employers from all sectors and size of employer. For further information and to register click here . For a copy of the Making it Work Booklet click here
Monday, 14th March 2022, 15:00 – 17:00 at Stormont
At our Women Delivering Change Conference you will have the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of MLAs. The questions you ask will be developed by the Consortium into a resource accessible to all women in Northern Ireland. Women will be able to use this resource during the upcoming Assembly Election campaign to challenge candidates in their area and ensure they are voting for people who will deliver for women.
Anne McVicker, Director the Women’s Resource and Development Agency will introduce the Women’s Regional Consortium Annual Report. You will be able to find out how the Consortium has been working for you in the last year.
Key Note Speaker
Prof. Gráinne McKeever, Chair of the Independent Review of Discretionary Support
A special workshop will take place on Monday March 14 at 10am in the Everglades, exploring how a 'Rights of Nature' approach could potentially benefit future environmental strategies for the City and District.
The event will bring together Council's Local Development Plan and Community Planning teams, and a range of speakers from the local construction sector, Friends of the Earth, RSPB and the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
Local organisations and individuals are invited to come along to the event, which is being held at the Everglades, to hear more about how a formal 'Rights of Nature' approach to future plans and frameworks would impact on the environmental objectives already being progressed by Council. Participants will have the opportunity to contribute towards the next step in forming a Rights of Nature declaration for the District.
This is the second of two workshops that follow the passing of a motion by Elected Members in June, to note the legal and social movement globally for the 'Rights of Nature' aimed at strengthening protections for people, place and planet. Members agreed to work with the local community and stakeholders, to draw up a Declaration for the Rights of Nature for the Council area to be brought back before Council for adoption.
This event will look at the global Rights of Nature movement and how it could be adopted locally.
12 National Energy Action NI - Free Energy Efficiency Information Sessions
Energy Efficiency in the Home Information Sessions: March 2022
At National Energy Action (NEA NI) we are concerned that higher energy prices, reduced incomes, and leaky, inefficient housing could put many households in Northern Ireland at increased risk of fuel poverty. These increases come at a time when many household budgets are already stretched thin.
However, at NEA we know that some simple changes to day-to-day activities could make big differences to household bills.
To assist households, NEA, supported by the Consumer Council (CCNI) are providing FREE Energy Efficiency information sessions online across Northern Ireland.
The following topics are included:
Impact of living in a cold, damp home
Taking control - understanding your heating system
Energy efficiency low cost/no cost top tips
Keeping the heat where it is needed – reducing heat loss
Causes of and remedies for condensation
Comparing and switching energy suppliers
Advice and Support
Events listed below are delivered online via zoom so you’ll need an internet connection and access to speakers so you can hear us.
The next 3 events are a taking place on the following dates:
Monday 14th March 10-1130am click here to book Thursday 24th March 2-3.30 pmclick here to book Monday 28th March 11-12.30pm click here to book
For further information contact, Nichola MacDougall, NEA Training Officer
Email: Nichola.MacDougall@nea.org.uk Phone: 028 9023 9909
Friends of the Earth are exploring the potential of a environmental community organising programme in NI for young people called My World My Home which has been developed and delivered in further education colleges in England and Wales.
As part of this Karin Eyben is doing a small piece of work exploring how/whether/if climate change and species loss is an issue for young people from different demographic/cultural/identity/economic backgrounds.
Karin would be interested in having an informal chat with anyone working with young people about how they see these issues at the moment.
16Introduction to Body Wisdom Movement for Over 50s
Tuesday evenings 7pm - 9pm at Echo Echo's studios on Magazine Street
Join Echo Echo for a short introductory evening course in Body Wisdom Movement and Dance for the over 50s led by Echo Echo's Artistic Director Steve Batts.
Of course moving is healthy, physically and psychologically but we aren't striving for those benefits. In our experience they come best as a by-product of exploring movement as a shared, poetic artistic process. The approach we take is that older people have enormous poetic potential embedded in their movement lives. We take away the expectations that are usually attached to dance as an art - extreme mobility, athleticism, agility - and we begin from where people are.
Any men and women 50 years and upwards can join us, no matter the level of physical ability or experience.
If you want more information or would like to ask about any concerns you have about joining in please don't hesitate to call Steve Batts on 07946586941 or email him at steve@echoechodance.com
17 Join #Challenge22 this World Autism Awareness Week!
World Autism Awareness Week: 28th March - 3rd April 2022
Get creative this World Autism Awareness Week and walk 22k, bake 22 buns, take on a 22 hour sponsored silence of hold a quiz with 22 people. It’s entirely up to you… as long as it’s 22!
The number 22 is significant as there are currently 1 in 22 school age children with a diagnosis of autism in Northern Ireland. We want to highlight the importance of this statistic in raising autism awareness, understanding and acceptance with the wider society.
We would love for you to take on this challenge as an individual, with family or with colleagues.
The monies raised from this challenge will help us continue to deliver services to the autism community in Northern Ireland.
18 Access Newsletter - Millennium Forum - March 2022
Please find attached our first Access Newsletter for the Millennium Forum. This will be a monthly publication which will include information on all our accessible events and projects.
RT @FoyleHospice: Do you have a few hours to spare?
We are in urgent need of Volunteers to help out at the Summer Raffle Stalls in… https://t.co/BBKZ2RmOyZ —
1 year 5 months ago
RT @YouthActionNI: We are delighted to invite you to our art exhibition and critical youth research hub and hear stories from young pe… https://t.co/QjcN2U5cr1 —
1 year 5 months ago
RT @YouthActionNI: As part of empathy day, we have an art exhibition at Waterside Library this week and school workshops in Newry and… https://t.co/zoGEkjiBPe —
1 year 5 months ago
RT @ApexHousingAssn: 📣 Join our team! We're looking for a manager who will be responsible for the daily running of our sheltered housing… https://t.co/5U1eOQZNiR —
1 year 5 months ago
RT @SuppCommunities: Join us for this popular session online 7 June at 10 am.
Learners will gain an understanding of the key processes… https://t.co/W4bfd0E2CK —
1 year 5 months ago
RT @ConsumerCouncil: Our latest free newsletter is now out. This month we have information on:
📺Save money on household appliances
🍳 5… https://t.co/6Wz1wBT6X9 —
1 year 5 months ago
RT @NIAntiPov: @NWCN01
Hearing from local elected reps in Derry about the cuts to the community and voluntary sector. A lot of un… https://t.co/mrNL7fwGdD —
1 year 5 months ago
RT @CRJDerry: This morning we attended a meeting organised by @NWCN01 with our local elected reps to discuss the potential impact… https://t.co/1u8zOTaRZY —
1 year 5 months ago
A huge thanks to all who came along to our meeting about the funding crisis in the sector, good conversations were… https://t.co/UGzifowO2O —
1 year 5 months ago
