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Repair Grants for Places of Worship
This programme is designed to help sustain and conserve heritage at risk, through urgent repairs to places of worship. The UK-wide scheme is delivered through four separate programmes in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
HLF will only offer grants for urgent repairs to the fabric of the building. They will not consider applications for other work (including proposals for new facilities) for a grant. It may be possible to apply for a grant for projects other than fabric repairs concerning places of worship under their other grant programmes, as long as any urgent structural repairs have been done. Grants range up to a maximum of £100,000 with a minimum of 25% match funding from another source.
All grants will be based on a two stage process and they will only support urgent repair projects. If it is clear that the application is appropriate and there is an urgent need, they will consider requests for a full award decision to be made without the two stage process. Stage one development funding may be available for those projects that successfully meet the assessment tests and seem most likely to qualify for a stage two grant towards the main repairs. They will only provide repair grants when projects are fully developed and you know the actual costs.
They will divide applications into two competitive batches each year. This will make sure that the Lottery money that is available goes to urgent repairs to buildings. They recommend that you contact their office in Belfast to check the dates when you should send them your application and when they will make their decision.
Guaranteed public access: One of their main priorities is to promote a wider appreciation of historic places of worship. Repairing important buildings can benefit the community, but visitor access is an important way of providing for increased understanding and enjoyment of their heritage. They welcome applications from all faith groups and denominations, Christian and non-Christian. However, you must be a formally constituted religious organisation. Your building must be listed. In all cases, the building must be regularly used as a place of public worship on at least six days of the year. They expect that any building they offer a grant to will stay in use as a place of regular public worship for at least 10 years after the grant-aided repairs have been completed.
Important Dates: Repair Grants for places of worship - 31 March 2010 Repair Grants for Places of Worship - September deadline - 30 September 2010
Contact details: Una Duffy, Development
Officer, Heritage Lottery Fund (Northern
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RoSPA / BNFL Scholarship Programme
RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, has a scholarship programme for two to three scholarships a year over the next 10 years to provide grants to researchers in the UK working in the fields of safety and accident prevention. The scheme is competitive and is financed by a bequest of £500,000 from BNFL to fund 2-3 scholarships a year. These will enable students to carry out research into safety and accident prevention that will produce defined, practical and influential outcomes to help save lives and prevent injuries.
Applications are invited for projects in the range of £6k to £20k addressing any of the following: Road: ‘To improve standards of driving behaviour' Home: ‘To reduce home and leisure accidents' Work: ‘To raise standards of health and safety management' Water and Leisure: ‘To reduce injuries in water and leisure activities' Safety Education: ‘To enhance risk understanding and awareness' General Safety: ‘To increase public awareness of safety and accident prevention'.
Applications should be made on no more than two sides of A4, setting out the aims of proposed research, methodologies to be employed, timescales, anticipated costs and benefits and supervisory arrangements. Summary biographical details of researchers and supervisors should also be included.
RoSPA / BNFL Scholarship Programme - 2010 Deadline - 2 April 2010
Contact: Roger Bibbings, Royal
Society For The Prevention Of Accidents NI, RoSPA Head Office,
Edgbaston
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Women’s health and wellness - A US study visit
Up to fourteen individuals (from Ireland and from Northern Ireland) including health, public policy, NGO, and counselling professionals will be selected to go on a study visit to the US to examine the ways to promote women’s wellness and mobility in society, including encouraging continuing education, training for returning to the workforce, achieving work/life balance, financial management, domestic violence prevention, health maintenance and routine medical checkups. The visit is to Boston and Detroit and will run from 11 to 21 May 2010.
The programme is sponsored by the Irish Institute at the Centre for Irish Programmes, Boston College and the US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Programme related costs include travel, accommodation, tuition, and the majority of meals are provided.
Shortlisted applicants must be available for interview on either 9 March 2010 in Belfast or 10 March in Dublin. Please note that the programme is by necessity highly selective, and that consequently, not all applicants will be interviewed and not all interviewees will be invited to participate.
Visit www.bc.edu/irishinstitute for an application form, in addition to a letter of interest, must be returned by email to: Ms Thea Gilien at gilien@bc.edu before 5.00pm on 01 March 2010.
The letter of interest should include: reason for application, your ability to contribute to the programme, and potential for sharing your experience upon your return home. |
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Practical ways to help small businesses stop wasting profits - Switch off and Save £s
Tuesday 2 March 2010, 1:45 pm – 4:45 pm, The Guildhall, Derry/Londonderry
If you’re wasting resources, you’re not just losing money; you’re also damaging the environment. By cutting costs, successful businesses can increase profitability and survive the recession. Reducing the energy and water bills of your business will help you make instant savings and a positive contribution to the environment. Better waste management can also have a positive impact on your bottom line -improving your green reputation can help win more customers, reduce your carbon footprint and can even earn you money. Business in the Community, in partnership with the Federation of Small Businesses and Derry City Council, cordially invite you to a practical, information seminar to find out how your business can reap instant benefits from reducing energy bills, cutting water consumption and recycling more waste.
Connections Best Practice Seminars for Small Businesses aim to help small businesses achieve responsible growth. Connections is a three-year programme providing mentoring and support to SMEs by bringing together owner-managers of small businesses with experts from larger companies to help address specific development issues. Connections are sponsored by ESB Independent Energy.
Who is the seminar for? Small business owners and managers interested in saving money, saving energy and saving the planet. What will I gain from attending? Instant ways to save money; How to operate more efficiently ; Increased competitiveness; Enhanced company profile; Improved environmental performance ; Access to specialist experts in the field of environmental, waste and energy; Ways of encouraging responsible behaviour from staff ; How to gain staff 'buy in' to maximise cost savings and long-term sustainability
To book a place - Book online, email Heather Major or call (028) 9046 0606 |
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Community Relations through Sport
Donegal Sports Partnership wishes to invite you to the launch of our Community Relations through sport on 12th March 2010 at 10.30am in the An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny. RSVP: Office No 7, River Front House, Pearce Road, Letterkenny Tel: 074 911 6078 / Email: michael@activedonegal.com
Community Relations through Sport proposes to address social exclusion, racism and sectarianism through the medium of sport and physical activity. There is widespread belief in the key role sport can play in combating social exclusion at community level. The project seeks to address these social exclusion issues by engaging young people between the ages of 14 and 18 years of ages from all religious backgrounds through a programme of capacity and confidence building, improving self esteem thus contributing to a more vibrant and inclusive community. The programme will operate in partnership with the established community/ youth organisations within the identified areas in order to empower young people to provide answers to building trust within divided communities. The programme model will include the practical support from national governing bodies of sport from majority sports and minority sports including FAI, IRFU, Cricket Ireland, Athletics, Badminton Ireland and Cycling which will be twinned with community relations and cultural diversity workshops to allow young people to explore their own cultures beliefs and traditions and challenge the stereotypes in order to acknowledge and address difference. Two integral education courses will run alongside the sporting sessions. One from FETAC called Living in a Diverse Society and The Community Sports Leadership Award from Sports Leaders UK.
The project objectives include; Promoting a model of sport and education to raise an awareness of the social exclusion issues and prejudices, which currently exist within border communities of Newtowncunningham, St Johnston, Lifford and Raphoe in Co Donegal and communities within the Strabane and Derry City Council areas. Empowering and providing a forum for young people irrespective of culture, belief or tradition to explore stereotypes. Set up a Youth Forum to discuss relevant topics surrounding the project. E.g. racism, sectarianism, culture. Creating a steering group within key personnel of the existing community and sports organisations in the identified areas in order to share the principles of the programme. Providing a specialised sports specific training module in each identified areas of a cross section of majority, minority and traditional sports including soccer, rugby, Gaelic games, cycling, cricket and badminton. Provide young people involved in the programme with The Community Sports Leadership Award from Sports Leaders UK. Allowing the young people to develop their leadership and teamwork skills in coordinating, developing and delivering a festival of multi sports and physical activities in each location and on a cross border basis. Bringing young people together for residential sessions in order to develop social contacts and promote the ethos of the programme. Providing a club/school link in each of the identified areas. Creating a forum for coaches and sports organisations to come together to share ideas for future development within the area.
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£1.2 Million Scheme for Faughan Valley Area The Rural Area Partnership in
Derry (RAPID) is conducting research on the extent to which residents in
the Derry City
Council Area
(and surrounding hinterland) are accessing heritage sites and facilities
in the Faughan Valley Area. This is part of an overall project which
will see investment of almost £1.2 Million into the rural areas of
Derry City
Council Area
from the foothills of the North
Sperrins, along the River Faughan Area
(see further notes at
bottom). - The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced an earmarked first round pass of £1.2million for the Faughan Valley in Londonderry through its rural regeneration and landscape conservation scheme. The first round pass is an endorsement of the outline proposals by the Rural Area Partnership in Derry Ltd (RAPID) in partnership with The Woodland Trust and Derry City Council, and will allow the applicant to progress to the second round to submit a further, fully-developed application to secure the full award. - Landscape Partnerships is Heritage Lottery Fund’s initiative offering grants for schemes led by partnerships which aim to conserve areas of distinctive landscape character throughout the UK. They act as a catalyst to bring organisations and communities together to form partnerships that create a shared vision for the conservation and management of our landscape heritage, enabling people to tackle the heritage needs of their local landscapes in a co-ordinated and effective way. - The Faughan Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme covers a large area of 100 square kilometres (nearly 10,000 hectares). The proposed area extends from the foothills of the North Sperrins along the River Faughan. Within the area, there are a variety of landscape patterns including natural habitats, built heritage as well as archaeological and historical features. The river and its hinterland form the basis of the partnership area. |
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Working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse - One Day Introductory Workshop
This workshop is for practising counsellors and student counsellors who have an interest in working in this area of therapeutic provision. The participants will gain a wider knowledge of the impact of childhood sexual abuse on the child and how this can manifest in later adulthood with debilitating and often crippling effect.
NEXUS has 25 years of experience providing therapeutic intervention to those suffering as a result of recent or historic sexual violence. The workshop will be validated and certificated by NEXUS. The workshop is aimed at those who would like to work in this area but have limited experience, to those who would like to know more of the subject in order to help ascertain if it is an area they could work in and those who wish to update their skills and add a further competency to their professional development.
www.nexusinstitute.org / info@nexusinstitute.org / 028 9032 6803
Areas covered in the workshop • What makes the child vulnerable? • How the child’s sense of self is determined by the abuse? • The choices the child now has • Adult manifestations • The neurological effects of trauma
Workshop Details • Interactive one day workshop • Handout material will be provided • Limited in size to enhance learning and accessibility • Cost £45 including certification & tea/coffee • Regional locations Belfast, Derry, Portadown & Enniskillen
The one day workshop can be run for groups by arrangement in other locations. For more information or to register an interest contact: Clinical Manager David Lyttle @ 028 9032 6803 |
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R.E.A.C.H Across To New Friends and New Skills
Local youth group R.E.A.C.H Across are currently seeking 200 young people (14 – 17yr olds) from throughout the W.E.L.B area, for cross-community activity residentials during March and April. The principal aim of the residentials will be to allow young people from a wide area to make new friends and provide opportunities to gain new experiences, social skills and qualifications.
The 2010 residentials will take place in Tobermore, Ballycastle, Portrush and Portadown and activities will include assault courses, go-karting, inflatable games, ice-skating, banana boat, laser quest, indoor caving, trampolining etc. The cost to members for a residential is £30 and this covers accommodation, food, activities and transport.
After the residential weekends, members can take part in a range of activities, day trips and training courses such as drugs and alcohol awareness, guitar skills, acting lessons, cheerleading, basic first aid, trampolining, canoeing, catering skills, youth leadership training etc. Members can also attend weekly group meetings, some of which will be held in Strabane, Omagh and Enniskillen. These meetings will allow members to meet up with their new friends on a regular basis and to be involved in planning activities for the remainder of the year. There are also day trips to theme parks, projects with other youth groups, weekly meetings, talent nights etc.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME:Since 1999, R.E.A.C.H. Across have been involved with international projects in Sweden, Portugal, Poland, France, Belgium, Denmark, Romania, Bulgaria and Estonia. We are currently planning a 10 day youth project in Romania this Summer. During an international exchange, members visit tourist sites, participate in a range of activities, sample international food recipes and learn about respective cultures and traditions. However, members who do not wish to be selected for international projects, can attend outdoor activity camps for a week in July or August.
TRAINING PROGRAMME: Training courses will include drugs awareness, youth rights, child protection, photography, drama, guitar skills, driving lessons, cooking skills, suicide prevention etc.
FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information or an application form to become Member, Assistant Leader or Leader, please contact R.E.A.C.H Across by telephone ( 028 71 280048 ) or e-mail: reach_across@hotmail.com You can also check the web-site: www.reach-across.co.uk |
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One Good Reason Newsletter - Spring Edition
Please see attached One Good Reason Newsletter. This newsletter illustrates our campaign to encourage people aged 60+ to consider getting involved in volunteering opportunities in and around the North-West. There are current opportunities included in the newsletter and contact details of the North West Volunteer Centre should anyone want to investigate other or further volunteering opportunities. People can also check-out opportunities on www.volunteernow.co.uk |
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Mon – 10am-12 Computers, 4-5.30pm Irish Dancing, 6-7pm Aerobics, 7-9pm Oil Painting, 7.15-8.15pm Boxing Juniors, 8.15-9.15pm Boxing Seniors Tue – 11am-12 WH&SCT Dispensary, Pilates 6.30pm, 6.45pm Indoor Cycling, 8-9pm Ceili Dancing Wed – Citizens’ Advice Bureau & Kickstart to Work 10am-12, 10am-12 Slimming World, Children’s Drama Starts again 24th March, 6-8pm Aerobics, 6.45pm Indoor Cycling, 8-9.30pm Boxing, 8.15-9.30pm Tai Chi Thur – 10am-12 Computers, 3-5pm Sewing/Dressmaking, 5.30 & 7pm Slimming World, 6.45pm Indoor Cycling, Circuit Training 8.30pm Fri – Children’s Guitar 5-6pm; Sat – 12.30-2pm Irish Dancing
Healthy Lifestyle - three free classes – times to be confirmed Let’s Talk – parents promoting sexual health Alcohol Awareness Positive attitudes and mental health
Public meeting Faughanvalley history and heritage - 8pm Thursday 4th march
GO FOR IT – Advice, support and training to start your own business – ring for appointment
Typing, photocopying, ring binding, hall for hire for children’s parties etc. Tel 71812303, eglintoncommunity@tiscali.co.uk |
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ICT - It is now Essential (90% of all jobs require ICT skills*) - Find your way around the computer - Start up and shut down correctly - Create files and save them - Implement safety and security - Load, use and close software applications - Create letters, reports, spreadsheets, charts - Use email and the Internet
For more information Contact Gabrielle at Disability Action on:- 028 71 360811 - Textphone: 028 71 372077 Email: derry@disabilityaction.org |
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Ceol agus Amhráin ó Albain - Music and Song from Gaelic Scotland
Featuring / le Anne Martin agus Ingrid Henderson Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, 37 Mórshráid Shéamais / 37 Great James’ Street, Doire Déardaoin / Thursday, 4 Márta / March 2010 @ 8.00p.m. Táille: £10; £7 (le lacáiste /concessionary); £22 (teaghlach /family)
For our first concert of the new series of Ceol cois Feabhail concerts, we welcome back two of the celebrated artists of Scotland’s musical tradition. As a professional singer, Anne has sung and presented song workshops in many countries throughout the world and in Scotland is one of the main song tutors working in the innovative arts development programme Fèisean nan Gàidheal Ingrid is a wonderfully versatile instrumentalist, who has been immersed in the Scottish Gaelic tradition of music since childhood. At present, she teaches Traditional Music in Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s premier Gaelic university campus.
In addition to this concert, they are offering two song workshops – one for schoolchildren at 10.30 a.m. and one for adults at 12.00 – on the same day. These workshops are available free of charge thanks to Colmcille’s support, and places are limited and can be booked in advance by contacting Ann-Marie at the Cultúrlann (00442871264132).
T: 02871264132 / M: 07759711057 / www.culturlann-doire.ie |
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Latest production from Sole Purpose - Clouds on a Mountain Road
We are delighted to bring you news of our latest production, Clouds on a Mountain Road, by Orna Akad. There will be a performance in The Playhouse to celebrate International Womens Day on March 8th at 8pm. Tickets cost £8/£6 and are available in person from the box office or by telephoning 02871 268027.
There will also be a performance in the Gasyard as part of a conference on Women's Role in War and Peacebuilding starting at 10am on Monday 8th May. For information on the conference, contact 02871 262812 |
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30th City of Derry Drama Festival, 5th – 13th March 2010
Adjudicator: Donn McMullin Waterside Theatre Box Office 028-7131-4000 Tickets £8. Conc. £6. Special Offer:
Buy two nights, get third night Free! Affiliated to Association of Ulster Drama Festivals & Amateur Drama Council of Ireland
Fri 5th March: 8.00p.m. - By The Bog Of Cats, by Marina Carr - performed by the Breffni Players Co. Leitrim
Sat 6th March: 8.00p.m. - The Banshee of Crokey Hill , by Tommy Marren - performed by the Crokey Hill Club, Co. Sligo
Sun 7th March: 8.00p.m - Mauritius, by Theresa Rebeck - performed by the Bradán Players, Leixlip. (* contains strong language)
Mon 8th March: 8.00p.m. The Gentle Island, By Brian Friel - performed by the Backburner’s Drama Circle, Co. Tyrone
Tues 9th March: 8.00p.m.- Philadelphia Here I Come, by Brian Friel - performed by the Lifford Players, Co. Donegal
Wed 10th March: 8.00p.m. - Where There’s a Will, by Val Gough - performed by the Clanabogan Drama Circle, Co Tyrone
Thurs 11th March: 8.00p.m. - Our Town, by Thorton Wilder - performed by Rosemary Drama Group, Belfast
Fri 12th March: 8.00p.m. - The Field, by J.B. Keane - performed by the Newpoint Players Co. Down
Sat 13th March: 7.30p.m. - Three Tall Women - by Edward Albee - performed by Theatre 3 Newtownabbey (*Contains adult material)
Please see attached for synopsis of plays and groups. |
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