VCSE Capacity Building Workshop - 23rd October 2024

Connected Voice are offering capacity building workshops for VCSE organisations working in specific areas of the North and Outer West of Newcastle. 

The workshops will be interactive and activity based, covering the following areas:

• Strategy
• Good Governance
• Funding
• Community Engagement
• Technology
• and more...

The workshops are free to attend and funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund with the North East Combined Authority as the lead authority.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. 

Before signing up, please check your organisation fits within the catchment area for these workshops by checking the Community Partnership interactive map. Your organisation must either be based in the highlighted areas, or deliver specific projects in these areas.

To sign up to this session, please follow the booking link form below.

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

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 will be delivered in-person at Church of the Holy Nativity, Hillhead Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE5 1DR (an accessible venue).

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.

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.