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A further major contract has been secured by the Department for Communities (DfC) with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The £7 million contract will deliver Universal Credit services to claimants in Great Britain and will secure an additional 125 jobs in Northern Ireland.

The Heritage Angel Awards are the first of their kind in Northern Ireland. This exciting initiative is led by the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (UAHS), with funding for the awards from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Department for Communities.

The Department for Communities (DfC) today released the publication, ‘Volunteering in Northern Ireland 2017’.

Women in Sport Week 2017 runs from 19 to 25 June and is a national initiative which is supported locally by amongst others the Department for Communities, SportNI and the Female Sports Forum.

Ballycopeland Windmill’s heritage will be celebrated on a new postage stamp issued today, as part of a range of special stamps featuring some of the UK’s surviving historic windmills and watermills.

The Department for Communities has recently designated a number of historic sites around Rathlin Island.

As part of Volunteers Week, European Heritage Open Days, organised by the Department for Communities, are seeking volunteers to help out at different properties on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September 2017.

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland’s (PRONI) Document of the Month for June has a gardening theme.

The term of appointment of the Chair of NILGOSC (the Committee), Mr Trevor Salmon OBE, and the Committee members, has been extended to 31 December 2017.

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has just launched its own Facebook page providing the latest information on what is happening at PRONI and to let people know how they can book for forthcoming events.

The Northern Ireland Benefits Statistics Summary, providing an overview of the main Department for Communities (DfC) administered benefits, was published by the Department for Communities today.

The Department for Communities (DfC) today released headline figures on engagement of adults in culture, arts and leisure in 2016/17.

The term of appointment of the Chair of the LGSCNI (the Commission), Mr Brian Hanna CBE, and the Commission members, has been extended from 1 April 2017 until such times as the Commission is officially dissolved.

The Steps 2 Success statistical bulletin, providing an overview of referrals, starts and employment outcomes for the programme, was published by the Department for Communities today.

The term of appointment of the following Members of the Board of Trustees of W5 have been extended from 1 May 2017 to 30 November 2017:

A report entitled “Northern Ireland Housing Bulletin October – December 2016” was published today by the Department for Communities (DfC).

The Department for Communities (DfC) will be facilitating a series of stakeholder engagement events to seek views on the development of a programme providing support for women wishing to be involved in community transformation.

Placemaking: Context, culture and vision

A publication entitled “The Northern Ireland Poverty Bulletin 2015/16” was published today by the Department for Communities (DfC).

The Department for Communities is reminding landlords who registered with the Landlord Registration Scheme in 2014 that it is time to renew their registration if they are still a landlord.