​County Armagh Community Development (CACD) has successfully secured funding through the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council PEACE IV Partnership under the Building Positive Relations theme.
 
Appointment of Facilitator
CACD wishes to recruit an experienced facilitator or facilitators with the necessary skills, qualifications and experience to facilitate building positive relations workshops.
The remit of the facilitator(s) will be to creatively engage with individuals in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon and Monaghan Council areas:

• to deliver 12 workshops researching and examining the conflict period 1917 – 1925 
• To deliver a further 12 workshops with story gathering methods to enable people to consider their own story, background and history and to engage and investigate the story, background and history of others on a cross border / cross community basis.Participants will be trained in story collecting and applied heritage methods with Open College Network Level 3 Accreditation. Workshops will be held in both council areas.

For full Terms of Reference please telephone CACD office on 028 37552103 or email info@cacd.org.uk

This position is supported by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) 

VOLUNTEERING SMALL GRANTS SCHEME
(source Dept of Communities)
To be eligible for grant assistance (minimum award £200 – maximum award £1,200) organisations must not have an annual income exceeding £100,000 per year and must demonstrate how their proposal delivers on the programme outcomes below:
Objective 1 – Increase Volunteer activity by groups under-represented in the volunteering population, including people not in paid work.
Objective 2 – Innovation – Increasing Diversity and Numbers
Objective 3 – Increase in numbers of new Volunteers
Objective 4 – Benefit to your local community
Examples of grant awards – volunteer out of pocket expenses, supporting the recruitment of new volunteers, providing travel, training or small running costs like heat or light etc.
Please check following link for application form and guidance notes http://www.volunteeringnorthwest.co.uk/small-grants.

​CACD plan to have three information events

• Wednesday 22nd August Edenderry Orange Hall 8pm
  
• Wednesday 22nd August Altnaveigh House at 8 pm
  
• Thursday 23rd August Mullabrack Orange Hall at 8pm

If you wish to attend please let us know sending an email to admin@cacd.org.uk as soon as is possible.
Closing date for applications is Monday 3rd September at 12 noon