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Delivering Social Change Update

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  • On March 3, 2015
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Northern Ireland Executive’s Delivering Social Change Update PROPOSED NEW AGE DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION  On 19 February, Junior Ministers Jennifer McCann and Jonathan Bell announced proposals on the way forward for new age discrimination legislation on the provision of goods, facilities and services. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to extend legislation to give legal protection […]
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Quaker Storytelling Project

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  • On March 3, 2015
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A Poem written by one of the women participating in the Storytelling project. Behind those closed doors Scared to say anything wrong Afraid of what might happen Behind those closed doors. Demon dark eyes The expression on his face I was his punch bag, until I lay unconscious. He would rid his anger, beating me […]
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Quaker Storytelling Project

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  • On March 3, 2015
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Rory Doherty from the Quaker Service who designed and delivered the project, gives an in-depth description of the work and thanks VSB for their support of the project. Emotional Journeys – Back to the Future If you could tell a story what would it be? How would you tell it? Who would you share it […]
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Quaker Storytelling Project

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  • On March 2, 2015
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VSB and The Pilgrims Trust has contributed funding towards The ‘Quaker Storytelling Project’ Janette McKnight Director of Quaker Service – This is our 4th published storytelling project using art as a means to enable people to communicate their journey through life, past hurts and future hopes.  Each publication has taken on its own character, and […]
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The Carnegie UK Trust & Fields in Trust

  • Posted by VSB Foundation
  • On February 27, 2015
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The Carnegie UK Trust and Fields in Trust launch new #FieldFinders campaign The Carnegie UK Trust and Fields in Trust are today launching our new #FieldFinders campaign to find the UK’s lost playing fields. Between 1927 and 1935 the Carnegie UK Trust gave grants worth £200,000 – the equivalent of around £10 million today – […]
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Make It Work Campaign an update from Stratagem

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  • On February 27, 2015
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The ‘Make it Work’ campaign is a spontaneous civil society response to the political impasse at Stormont. Make it Work is an initiative in which individuals and groups from across the community are encouraging politicians to come to agreement in the inter-party talks on contentious issues. Make it Work was a spontaneous response to the […]
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Journeys with Convictions Programme

  • Posted by VSB Foundation
  • On February 17, 2015
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Funding has been allocated to the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre (BURC) to support NIACRO in delivering ‘Journey’s with Convictions’ programmes. The programme is designed for women to support progression and resettlement across NI. BURC and NIACRO together have estabilished a need for Women on Day Release or on Probation to engage in a participant-led Social […]
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Make It Work Youth

  • Posted by VSB Foundation
  • On February 16, 2015
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The youth strand of the ‘Make It Work’ campaign; a spontaneous civil society response to the political impasse at Stormont, funded by VSB continues to meet on a regular basis at the Crescent Arts Centre. The Crescent arts centre provides an informal space to discuss how the campaign is going and how we can expand the […]
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Prison Arts Foundation’s ‘Inspiring Change’ project at the MAC

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  • On February 13, 2015
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The Pilgrim Trust have contributed funding towards the continued work of the Prison Arts Foundation. PAF work with some of Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable and marginalised groups. In partnership with the MAC, PAF aim to continue and grow with the launch of a new and innovative project ‘Inspiring Change’. ‘Inspiring Change’ at the MAC ‘Inspiring […]
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