Northern Ireland equality

The Big Lottery Fund publishes equality reports for Northern Ireland in line with our legal duties, and to communicate important developments in our equality work.

The scheme sets out how we will comply with our legal duties under Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act (1998). It is available at the moment in draft.

Read the final equality scheme

This plan sets out how we will comply with new disability equality duties. The plan will be reviewed and updated annually. We welcome any comments on the plan, which we will be pleased to consider as part of the review process. The Northern Ireland plan is complementary to the UK-wide Joint Race and Disability Equality Scheme.

Read the Northern Ireland Disability action plan

Read the Joint Race and Disability equality scheme (UK)

We publish annual screening reports that set out the details and outcomes of policies, programmes and functions, which are screened using our Equality Assurance Process. Read the Screening 3 report

Our previous screening reports are still available:

Screening 2 report

Screening 2 report: summary

Screening 1 report

We report annually to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland on our equality compliance work, such as our equality assurance process and progress on implementation of our equality schemes and plans. We are committed to making these annual reports publicly available.

Read our Annual Report to Equality Commission 2006-2007

If you would like to discuss any aspect of our equality reports for Northern Ireland, or if you would like to request the documents in other formats, please contact our equality adviser Joan Reid on 028 9055 1440 or email her at joan.reid@biglotteryfund.org.uk