Faith Based Charities and religious designation
Posted By: Sarah Burrows
Faith based charities should consider whether they wish to apply for religious designation. If they do it is the charity’s responsibility to provide evidence to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland that they meet the conditions set out in the Charities Act 2008. Religious designation wa...
Economy Minister announces investment in Firefly Learning Limited
Posted By: Sarah Burrows
On 16th June Economy Minister Diane Dodds announced an investment in Firefly Learning Limited. It is understood that the investment will create 52 new jobs. The Company is GB based and provides a digital education platform to support schools in delivering home learning. Invest NI has offered the com...
Covid-19 Job Retention Scheme key dates
Posted By: Sarah Burrows
The Government has outlined changes to the Scheme from 1st July until closure on 31st October 2020. 10 June- Final date that an employee can be furloughed for the first time. Employees who have already completed a full three-week furlough, remain eligible for the scheme until it clo...
Launch of £15.5 million Covid-19 Charities Fund
Posted By: Sarah Burrows
Deirdre Hargey MLA, Minister, Department For Communities has today announced the launch of a £15.5 million Covid-19 Charities Fund to help local charities facing financial difficulties as a result of the pandemic. Applications will open on Monday 15 June. The fund will provide financia...
Posted By: Sarah Burrows
Closing – 20 May 2020 Following on from the Social Enterprise NI’s Weekly Members Video Call today, SENI has stressed the importance of the following points for the Business Support Grants. • You MUST apply for either of the grants below IF YOU HAVE A RATE PAYERS I...
Posted By: Sarah Burrows
Economy Minister Diane Dodds has today announced that £40 million is to be made available for a new Hardship Fund aimed at microbusinesses which have not been able to avail of the existing support schemes and which require financial support due to the impact of COVID-19. It is estimated aro...
The Covid-19 crisis and our Voluntary Sector
Posted By: Sarah Burrows
Following on from my colleague Jenny Ebbage's blog earlier today in relation to the 5 key asks from the charity sector CO3 has now confirmed that it is organising follow up meetings with politicians to highlight the many challenges and to stress the need for urgent financial support for the sector....
