NEW PROGRAMME SECTOR NEWS
NEWS, DEBATE & UPDATES
14 CDPs lose State funding 4 Report: Poor people still dying younger 4
10-11 BENEFITS
The new Programme has “critical mass” Positives about the new Programme Alphabet soup just got thicker!
New Ministers, new Department, new Head 5 Bealtaine Festival, 1-31st May 6 Cork Volunteer Week success 6 CSOP: Simple alarms still saving lives 6
12-13 -ADDRESSING VOLUNTEERING O’Cuiv believes volunteering must be strong Dept. interested in Limerick’s alternative model
GAELTACHT COMMUNITIES 7
14 - FACTS & FIGURES
Community groups in Gaeltacht face change
Timeline: The story so far LCDP goals in detail
NEW NETWORK 8
New network for 53 local development companies
15-17 COMMUNITY CONCERNS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & EQUALITY 9
British speaker at CDP Conference Opinion: Take away the tracks and your community will sink! The Programme could be developed, but...’ A real voice in real decisions needed Programme ‘forsakes’ people on the ground Knockanrawley: One project’s battle for independence
LGBT Code of Conduct for community groups goes national
18 - ROLE OF CES
CES hopes its work will be valued in time
24 NEWS & RELATED
Dublin Inner City Partnership loses funding 11 projects retain independent status Community reps meet Atlantic NCDF mandate poll Volunteers’ dismay
FEATURES HELP ME HORACE! 7
Letters to Horace - Our Agony Uncle!
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE 19-21 A real solution for Ireland
INTERNATIONAL 22-23
Gearóid Fitzgibbon reports from Palestine
Ó CUÍV’S NEW IDEAS FOR VOLUNTEERS 25
Minister has moved but still working to support Communities
Wanted: News reporters
NEW MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCES 26
We’re on the lookout for aspiring news reporters who have an eye for Civil Society and/or Community Development stories. Ideally, you should work as a volunteer or paid worker in a CDP or local development company. Contact the editor. If we print it, we’ll pay for it.
Online fora, facebook, real books, video
RESOURCE SECTION 27
How to hold quicker meetings
THE HAPPY PAGE 28
Thank you!
Martine Brennan discovers happiness is just a habit!
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