Connected Voice Newcastle and Gateshead Funding Fair 2024

Our Annual Funding Fair is for organisations serving Newcastle and Gateshead - meet with potential funders and bring your ideas to life!

Our annual Funding Fair returns for 2024 at Northumbria University Students Union, and gives attendees the opportunity to speak one-to-one with regional and national funders and pitch your ideas. With a full day and planned lunch break, there will be plenty of time to network with the 100 plus attendees, meet with other specialist support organisations or chat with our friendly team about how we can help make your ideas for positive change happen. We will have more details to share about this event soon, so please keep an eye out for updates across our social media and news platforms!

Arrival and registration is from 10:30 for a prompt 11am start.

You'll have the opportunity to book one-to-one slots with funders on the day. We'll share details about how to do this closer to the time. Please be aware that we have some funders attending virtually via Zoom. 

If you have any accessibility or mobility considerations, it is very important that you let us know as soon as possible so that we can arrange to book slots with your preferred funders.

The following funders are confirmed so far:

• National Lottery Community Fund
• Heritage Lottery Fund
• Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
• Newcastle Building Society Fund
• The Key Fund
• The Ballinger Charitable Trust
• Newcastle City Council Ward Grants
• Lloyds Bank Foundation
• Hadrian Trust
• BBC Children in Need
• Sport England
• Big Issue Invest
• The Joicey Trust
• People's Postcode Lottery
• LGBT Consortium

Connected Voice Support and Development helps organisations to run successfully and make a positive difference in their communities. This event is for voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations serving Newcastle and/or Gateshead.

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.

You can keep up to date with the latest training and events from Connected Voice by subscribing to our fortnightly email bulletin.

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 method This is an in-person event taking place at Northumbria University Students Union, 2 Sandyford Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8SB. This is an accessible building and is suitable for wheelchair users.

Accessibility Due to the nature of this event, it is very important that you let us know if you have any accessibility requirements that would help you get the most out of the day. 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.