Islington Council’s new Challenging Inequality Strategy is setting out a long-term ambition for challenging inequality, inequity, discrimination and promoting inclusion. Islington Council is determined to improve life chances for the residents and staff, ensuring no-one is left behind and the council will listen and work alongside their staff and the community to understand the issues, plan and take action together ensuring the council will monitor and evaluate the impact of their actions.
At the special meeting of the Voluntary and Community Sector grants committee held on 12th December it was agreed to extend current grants from the VCS Grants Fund and the Advice Fund for one year to 31 March 2016. Check out the full report. Over the coming months the...
On 1st December Voluntary Action Islington organised a briefing with the Big Lottery about their Reaching Communities funding programme. You can view the presentation from the briefing here
At its AGM this evening, attended by over 100 Islington volunteers and representatives of community organisations, Voluntary Action Islington announced a new chair. Andy Murphy is to step down after 5 years in the role. The new Chair will be former Islington...