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Monday, 14 November 2016 -10:30am to 12:00pm

Thursday, 10 November 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm

This interactive course covers all aspects of current welfare reforms including PIP, ESA changes, Discretionary Support, and changes to housing related benefits. It explores sanctions, mitigations, and challenging decisions (e.g. mandatory reconsideration

This half day training course provides participants with a dynamic overview of the changes initiated by welfare reform and the mitigations tabled by the Welfare Reform Mitigations Working Group (January 2016).

Current scheduled sessions include the following and can be booked via our website at www.adviceni.net

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Over 65s are being offered free home safety checks thanks to a Public Health Agency (PHA) partnership with Belfast City Council, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and Bryson Energy.

New partnership to grow charitable giving.
Two Northern Ireland organisations dedicated to promoting charitable giving have launched a new partnership to boost philanthropy over the next three years.

Volunteer Now hosted a series of workshops to hear the views of members about volunteering in the light of the current Department for Communities consultation paper on proposals for the provision of strategic support to the voluntary & community sector.

A summary of Include Youth's 2015-16 year, where as an organisation we continued to deliver excellent services to those most in need despite reduced resources and greater competition.

Advice NI is celebrating its 21st birthday by hosting a unique preview screening of the recent Palme D’Or winner ‘I, Daniel Blake’ in association with the Belfast Film Festival.

Does your organisation work towards improving the health and wellbeing of the people of Belfast?

A centuries-old wood, at the foot of Cave Hill in north Belfast, is set for a facelift thanks to funding of almost £48,000 from the Alpha Programme, administered by Groundwork Northern Ireland.

Leading charity Cancer Focus Northern Ireland is calling on local people to hold a pink event during October – breast cancer awareness month - to raise vital funds for pioneering research at Queen’s University Belfast.

As you may know the Department for Communities (DfC) is rolling out measures to ensure the advice sector is prepared to assist the general public through the implementation of the ongoing changes to the welfare system.

The Training for Women Network Ltd (TWN) invite tenders from suitably qualified persons to deliver heritage classes as part of our Heritage Lottery funded project which looks at the role and lives of women during the First World War – ROWW1.

The Consumer Council has launched an online survey to help find out more about NI consumers’ experience of delivery exclusions, restrictions or surcharges as a result of ordering online.

Over fifty members of the legal profession and representatives from community and voluntary groups were in attendance at the launch of a new solicitor group set up to raise awareness of disability issues amongst solicitors and their clients.

Over 200 members of the legal profession attended a conference held in Belfast entitled ‘Perspectives on Mediation - International and Local Views’.

Business in the Community has launched a new Mental Health Toolkit for Line Managers to support local organisations to deal with mental health within the workforce in light of new research

Hundreds gathered for a glimpse of the future at ‘Tomorrow’s World’ Responsible Business Summit

Advice NI is celebrating its 21st birthday by hosting a unique preview screening of the recent Palme D’Or winner ‘I, Daniel Blake’ in association with the Belfast Film Festival.

Watch the community life television Appeal on behalf of Hands That Talk. The programme also features Women'stec and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

Rural and farming charity, Rural Support, along with CSR partner, Simple Power, recently rolled into the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area for the ‘Rural Support Roadshow – Call to Action’ at the Coleraine Town Hall.

Citizens Advice and the Law Centre (NI) are working together to offer a comprehensive programme of welfare reform training designed to fully equip advisers to advise clients who are affected by the various changes.