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from
April 2001, encourage and support greater community participation,
particularly from those groups under-represented in volunteering activities,
to increase the number of active community groups and volunteers |
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by
2002, increase by 750 the number of volunteers engaged in voluntary
activities from the current level of 6,500 |
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by
the summer of 2001, put in place locally based partnerships to administer
the Peace II Programme and any agreed related programmes with the
objective of increasing reconciliation and reducing multiple social
and economic advantage |
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from
April 2001, increase the programme of grant aid to the Housing Rights
Service and the Northern Ireland Tenants' Action Project to provide
advice, support, information and training on a wide range of housing
issues which will help strengthen the areas of weakest community infrastructure
across Northern Ireland |
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by
April 2002, produce a strategy for the development of centres of curiosity
and imagination, establishing four centres to provide co-ordinated,
community based programmes for maximising individual creativity |
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by
April 2002, implement a plan with the Arts Council to target support
which will tackle barriers to participation in the arts by socially
disadvantaged people |
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by
June 2001, establish a forum to co-ordinate and promote the cultural
arts and leisure dimension to the "Cultural Quarter" concept
of designated areas for locating cultural activity with a view to
creating synergy and co-operation |
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by
June 2001, carry out a review of community-based arts and work with
District Councils to enable them to develop integrated local plans
for culture, arts and leisure |
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by
April 2002, widen community access to information by developing the
role of libraries as community information hubs |
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from
April 2001, extend the interim Safe Sports Grounds scheme to improve
the physical infrastructure of sporting facilities. |
