VIEW, Issue six, 2012


VIEW Back home


Pages 8-9 The Derry- Londondery Clipper vessel is our selection for The Big Picture as it sails into Derry


Wait for a win


Page 10 Columnist Frances A Burscough tells VIEW why she is still waiting very patiently to win the National Lottery


Fighting back


Website: viewdigital.org CONTENTS


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Co-operation


Pages 16-17 Una Murphy reports on the recent conference in Belfast organised by the Co-operative movement


Walk appeal


Page 21 Ash rock member Tim Wheeler (left) urges the public to support a Memory Walk on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Society


Thumbs up


Pages 14-15 Reporter Lucy Gollogly reports on a recent protest at Stormont over planned changes to the welfare benefits system


Editorial By Brian Pelan, editor E


tary sector in Northerm Ireland. In between issues, we use our website,


viewdigital.org, to host regular blogs and videos on current developments in the third sector. Since launching VIEW at the end of January


again carrying a story on the campaign against the the Welfare Reform Bill. All indications are that this piece of proposed legislation will have a major impact on communities


we have worked hard to promote and build the magazine and are thankful to those who have sup- ported us. In this issue, we make no apologies for once


very issue, we try to achieve an eclectic mix of news, profiles and features that captures what’s going on in the community and volun-


throughout Northern Ireland. At present the cam- paign is being led by a number of women’s organi- sations with backing from the trade union movement. Appeals, though, for the Assembly to radically


lighted to also report on the confrence, held for the first time in Belfast, by the European Founda- tion Centre. It was a privilege to sit in the distinguished


alter the bill look likely to fall largely on deaf ears. VIEW believes that the reality could be minor rather than wholescale changes to the legislation. These would then be triumphed as a ‘victory’


by some local politicians. A campaign that appeals for piecemeal


changes is likely to get just that. We await with in- terest to see whether the small campaign at pres- ent mushrooms into a larger voice that embraces all the sectors under threat. Apart from that ongoing story, VIEW is de-


Page 22 The European Foundation Centre held a conference in Belfast recently for the first time. VIEW reports on its success


VIEW, the online publication for the community/voluntary sector in Northern Ireland.


hall of the Presbyterian Assembly in Belfast (my first time there) and hear the speech delivered by the prominent South African human rights activist Albie Sachs, who lost one of his arms in a car bomb at- tack in 1988. A mixture of eloquence and humility is how


I would sum up his speech, which was delivered to an audience who listened with total attention. For those not present, a video of the talk is


available in the magazine and on our website. It’s worth taking a few minutes out of your


life to watch it.


Alternative formats – audio, DAISY, mp3, braille, large print or Word document of anything can be produced by: RNIB NI Accessible Media. T: 028 9050 1888 E: amni@rnib.org.uk W: www.accessiblemedia.co.uk


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