Connected Voice Newcastle and Gateshead Funding Fair 2025
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 2025 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.
Funders confirmed so far:
- The Key Fund
- Newcastle City Council- Ward Grants
- Easyfundraising
- Big Issue Invest
- The Joicey Trust
- Northumbria PCC
- Northern Powergrid Foundation
- The William Leech Charity
- Lloyds Bank Foundation
- Greggs Foundation
- National Lottery Community Fund
- National Lottery Awards for All
- Sir James Knott Trust
- The Heritage Lottery Fund
- Newcastle Youth Fund
- LGA Foundation
- LGBT+ Consortium (virtual)
- The Newcastle Fund
- Newcastle Building Society
- Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
Other services include:
- Volunteer Centre Newcastle
- Social Enterprise Academy
- All Connected Voice service areas
You'll have the opportunity to book one-to-one slots with funders on the day. Please be aware that appointments will be offered on a first come, first served basis and will be available to book from 11:10am onwards. These are always very popular, so please arrive on time to secure your slot, and don't be disappointed if you don't manage to speak to every funder on your list. There will still be plenty of time and opportunity for networking and browsing the stalls!
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.
This event is being held at Northumbria University Students Union. 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 venue is just over 5 minutes walk from Haymarket metro station
- The venue is less than a 20 minute walk from Central Station
- The venue is close to 1, 35, 37, 38, X39, 306, 351, 352, Q3 bus links
- Many city centre bus links are within 10 minutes from the venue
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.
