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How to help shape future Lottery grants

30 Jun 2022

Paul Sweeney, Chair of The National Lottery Community Fund’s Northern Ireland Committee and UK Board member talks about the organisation’s plans to develop their grant making in the future and how you can get involved.

We urgently need political leadership if we are to reduce or prevent homelessness

Photo by Ev on Unsplash

30 Jun 2022

Following deaths of six people who were sleeping on the streets of Belfast over just two weeks, Homeless Connect CEO Nicola McCrudden writes for Scope about how we can best address the complex set of issues that can lead to such tragedies.

Why your health really is your wealth

23 Jun 2022

Whenever we discuss how to improve health we invariably neglect the biggest factor of all in making us ill: poverty.

Measuring the impact of Northern Ireland’s charities: a work in progress

22 Jun 2022

Best practice has moved from counting outputs to measuring outcomes. However, change takes time. The local third sector is moving in the right direction but more needs to be done.

Doctors' Orders: the crisis in our GP service

17 Jun 2022

Anyone who has tried to book an appointment with their GP since the pandemic will be all too aware of how difficult that has become.

The Rwanda asylum policy is working perfectly for Boris Johnson

15 Jun 2022

With no good ideas to improve people’s lives, the Westminster government has nothing left except its ability to fabricate arguments and make people angry.

Who cares for the carers?

10 Jun 2022

Our health care system is completely dependent on a vast unpaid army of carers.

Northern Ireland needs to learn to communicate

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash

9 Jun 2022

Local people know the crippling effect relationship distress can have on their lives. However, most are reluctant to discuss their problems – and many don’t even know how.

Stormont can stretch the bounds of process and at least do *something*

Roll up, roll up! (Photo by Becky Phan on Unsplash)

1 Jun 2022

Is Stormont about to get weird? Maybe. Is weird better than silent? Yes.

The cost of living crisis

1 Jun 2022

The cost of living crisis is causing devastation for the least well off.

Young people: why they need to take the lead

27 May 2022

 Young people, defined as those under 30, comprise 50% of the world’s population. This will rise to 75% by 2030.

Is Northern Ireland moving away from paramilitarism? Maybe, maybe not

A mural on the Lower Newtownards Road (image from UU's CAIN database)

25 May 2022

While the headlines are filled with stories that feel out of time, local perceptions about the reach of Loyalist and Republican gangs are changing slowly, if they are changing at all.

The cost of living and the cost of governmental collapse

Photo by Nicholas Cappello on Unsplash

19 May 2022

There is no magic fix for the cost-of-living crisis. Plenty of things might help but, with no Executive in place, Stormont can’t do any of them.

Citizenship education: what's gone wrong

18 May 2022

What sort of young people do we want emerging from our schools?

The DUP's great gamble

13 May 2022

The DUP is smarting from an election defeat.

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