Recovery Month Coffee Morning in the “Secret Garden” - a Newcastle Support into Volunteering Project Celebration

This event is for Volunteer Coordinators and any other staff that support volunteers in Newcastle.

Join us for a special Recovery Month celebration!

Recovery Month is a time to recognise and celebrate people on their recovery journey, as well as the organisations and services that support them.

This year also marks one year of the Newcastle Support into Volunteering project, a service from Connected Voice that helps people in recovery build confidence, learn new skills, and make a difference through volunteering.

Venue: Ouseburn Parks Visitor Centre, Red Walk, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DD

Come along for a relaxed and friendly coffee morning where you can:

• Celebrate Recovery Month with others from across Newcastle
• Hear from Project Coordinator Laurie Zebik about the project's first year
• Listen to volunteers share their experiences of getting involved
• Workshop from the Northumberland Wildlife Trust
• Meet other organisations and volunteers supporting recovery
• Visit the beautiful Secret Garden behind the café (weather permitting), which volunteers from the project have helped to create and care for

Who can attend?

This event is for:
• Organisations that support people in recovery
• Organisations that have taken part in the Newcastle Support into Volunteering project
• Volunteers involved in recovery services or the project itself

As places are limited, we ask that each organisation sends:
• One member of staff only, and
• Up to three volunteers

If your organisation does not meet these criteria but you would still like to come, please contact Laurie at laurie.zebik@connectedvoice.org.uk. If there are spaces available closer to the date, we will do our best to welcome you.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

Connected Voice is committed to reducing our environmental impact and want to champion environmental sustainability to all organisations in the VCSE sector.

To reduce the carbon footprint of our events, we would like to politely request that all attendees make the best effort, where viable, to travel to our events in the most environmentally friendly way possible.

• The Ouseburn Parks Visitor's Centre is located off Red Walk within Jesmond Dene and is part of Millfield House.
• Nearest metro station is Jesmond and the number 306, 308 and 351 bus stops are around a 10 minute walk away.
• There is paid for street parking along Red Walk.

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 method This session is designed as an in-person event, held at Newcastle Volunteer Centre, The Grainger Hub, Maybrook House, 27 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 5JE. For more information on the venue, please see the Contact Us page.

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.