Two-fifths of older people are doing their bit for charities and their communities by engaging in voluntary work. A poll by the Royal Voluntary Service found that one in five - around 2.2 million...
Tuesday 13 August 2013
Painting Leith with memories
Morvern Cunningham, Event Coordinator and Festival Producer for LeithLate writes a blog post for us explaining how their new mural came about and the part that older people had to play in ensuring it reflected the history and memories of the … Continue reading →
Craft Month Workshops for the over-50s
Enjoy an exciting range of creative workshops programmed by the Live and Learn project for those aged 50 years and over. You will learn new skills, renew old ones, meet new people and explore the...
Walkies!
On 14 September, my lovely daughter Poppy and I are walking 10Km at Holkham Hall in Norfolk to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society, in memory of her gran and my mum, who had Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia for...
Further delay on Welfare Reform
The progress of the Welfare Reform Bill in Northern Ireland has been further delayed until Spring 2014.
The Welfare Reform Bill needs to pass through a number of key legislative stages before it can become law. Discussions are continuing amongst the political parties and Minister McCausland has stated that he will only move the Bill into the next stage, Consideration Stage, when he believes there is sufficient consensus within the Assembly to do so.
This means that changes to the benefits system will not happen in October 2013, but will be delayed until Spring 2014 at the earliest.
The Department for Social Development has announced a revised timetable as follows:
• The introduction of Universal Credit: Summer 2014
• The introduction of a Benefit Cap: Spring 2014
• The introduction of Personal Independence Payment: Spring 2014
• Changes to housing benefit: Spring 2014
• The introduction of new fraud and error powers: Spring 2014
• Changes to Employment and Support Allowance: Spring 2014
• Reform of the Social Fund system: Spring 2014
• Introduction of changes to the Appeals process: Spring 2014
Write to your MLA
This delay gives carers more opportunity to tell MLAs of their fears about welfare reform. Check out our Bedroom Tax Campaign
Read more about Welfare Reform at: www.nidirect.gov.uk/welfarereform and see how the Welfare Reform Bill is progressing at www.niassembly.gov.uk/Assembly-Business/Legislation/Primary-Legislation-Current-Bills/Welfare-Reform-Bill/.
Elderly woman airlifted after two-car crash closes A5
An elderly woman was airlifted to hospital and a main road was closed for more than six hours after a two-car crash near Oswestry.
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