Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Northern Ireland Rural Women's Network (NIRWN)
EU Transparency Register
956456631352-41 First registered on 26 Apr 2018
Goals / Remit
Northern Ireland Rural Women’s Network (NIRWN) was established in September 2006 ‘to promote and support rural women in rural Northern Ireland. We are a membership based organisation.
Mission
‘To amplify and articulate the voice of rural women at local, regional and strategic level’
Objectives
• To increase the voice of rural women at a policy level
• To advocate and lobby on behalf of rural women
• To provide information and networking opportunities for rural women
• To represent rural women on the Women’s Regional Consortium
• To pilot innovative projects to further the vision of rural women
• To hold statutory bodies to account to measure their impact on rural womenMain EU files targeted
Meetings and communications with MEP's and representatives of the EU to raise awareness of rural women's issues and concerns in relation to European policy e.g. Rural Development Programming; BREXIT; Peace IV; justice and fundamental rights.
Respond to EU policy and consultation on behalf of rural womenAddress
Head Office
NIRWN
Unit 13a Ballysaggart Business Park
Dungannon BT70 1BS
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
NIRWN is a small organisation with a regional remit for the benefit of rural women in Northern Ireland. We are an NGO charity non profit organisation and we are led by our membership which comprises of rural women from across the NI region.
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Majella Murphy (Co ordinator)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Majella Murphy (Co ordinator)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Women's Regional Consortium
http://www.womensregionalconsortiumni.org.uk/
Rural Community Network
http://www.ruralcommunitynetwork.org/
NIWEP
https://blog.niwep.org/Member organisations
Our members are comprised of: individual rural women and local rural women's groups both constituted and not constituted.
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
NIRWN is primarily financed by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs through the Department for Communites NI to support rural women in NI through the Women's Regional Infrastructure Programme NI. We apply from time to time to charitable foundations such as Community Relations Council https://www.community-relations.org.uk/and Halifax Foundation for NI https://www.halifaxfoundationni.org/ for small amounts of programme monies.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 01 May 2018 Location Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland Subject Meeting with the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU DG Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Attending - Michel Barnier (Head of Task Force)
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