Connected Voice Networking Event - Partnerships with Education

Join Connected Voice on 5th December for our next networking event with the theme of: Partnerships with Education 

From research partnerships that improve health outcomes for people in our community, to enriching volunteering experiences for young people, to collaborations that help organisations to deliver innovative work, partnerships with the education sector are a huge site of potential for the VCSE sector. This networking event will draw together organisations who are already doing interesting work through these partnerships and organisations who are interested in how they might work in partnership with the education sector. 

The event will have presentations from:  

• Julia Heslop from Dwellbeing and Newcastle University, sharing her experiences of Participatory Action Research as a tool for community empowerment. 
• Kasia Kurowska and Greta Brunskill from NIHR, discussing the work that NIHR has done in partnership with the VCSE sector. 
• Ronnie Burn from Newcastle College, discussing the potential for VCSE partnerships in developing holistic education.

The speakers all have experience of effective and interesting partnerships that bring together the education sector and the VCSE sector. There will also be time for attendees to network with each other and share the interesting work they are doing

Please note our Networking Events are for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations serving Newcastle and/or Gateshead. They aim to:

• Showcase and celebrate good and innovative practice
• Inspire participants with new ideas and ways to meet the needs of their communities
• Connect people and organisations to forge new partnerships and ways of working together for the same goals

This is an in person event at Recovery College Collective (ReCoCo), No 1 Carliol Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6UF 

Our training and events are funded from a variety of sources, allowing us to offer them for free to eligible organisations. Please check the eligibility requirements for each session before signing up, as this varies from course to course. If your organisation is not eligible for a free session you may be interested in one of our tailored training packages.

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Attendance and value Our team have dedicated significant time and resource to create and deliver our excellent range of training and events. Connected Voice is funded for this work, allowing us to offer these events free of charge. However, we expect people who have registered to prioritise attendance and let us know as soon as possible if there is a barrier to attending. We may follow up with you if you are absent without letting us know.

Delivery This event will take place at Recovery College Colleactive (an accessible venue). For more information on how to find them, please see their website. 

Accessibility Please let us know in advance if you have any accessibility requirements that would help you get the most out of this session. We will do everything we can to accommodate them. We can provide a BSL interpreter for training and events on request, but ask you to give us enough advance notice to enable this to be organised. To maximise resources, we are unable to provide BSL interpreters for all sessions unless we know this is essential.

Evaluation This event is free to attend but all participants will be required to complete a short evaluation on completion. This feedback enables us to continue delivering a free programme of training and events.

For security and practical reasons: You can only book one place for yourself. If a colleague wants to attend, they will need to book separately themselves. You must give us all the essential information requested so that we know your registration is genuine.

If circumstances change, you must advise us as soon as possible so that the place isn’t wasted as we have limited spaces for each event. You must also advise us if a substitute person from your organisation is attending in your place. We will be monitoring non-attendance, and may not accept future bookings from regular non-attenders.