Get Online Week Volunteer Coordinators' Digital Tools Upskilling event, Friday 24th October 10am-3pm

Join us during Get Online week for an event aimed at Volunteer Coordinators across Newcastle and Gateshead. This is also open to lead volunteers and trustees that take a role in looking after volunteers within your organisation. 

This training/event is part of the Get Online Week, 20-26 October 2025.

If you’d like to host your own Get Online Week event or training, this helpful toolkit can provide some support, ideas, and comms materials.

This event will give you an opportunity to learn hands-on skills to develop your digital literacy across a variety of tried and tested tools that will enhance your volunteer programmes and support you with capacity building. So, if there is an app, programme or online tool you have wanted to learn how to use, please do come along. 

Tools that we can discuss and show you how to use include but are not limited to software such as Loom, Google Workspace, Discord and Monday.com. We will send all registered attendees a survey to get an idea of what you would like to learn to make the session more bespoke to those attending. 

We will also be using this space to discuss all things digital inclusion related and share advice and best practise across both the Newcastle and Gateshead Volunteer Coordinators networks and we will be providing lunch for you to enjoy on the day.

Places are limited so please book early to secure a place

For more information or to be placed on the waiting list should this event be full please contact our Volunteering Voice and Engagement Manager Nimerta Virdee at nimerta.virdee@connectedvoice.org.uk

This meeting will take place in person at One Strawberry Lane, NE1 4BX

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 has secure bike storage and free to use shower facilities
The venue is within 60 seconds from St James Metro Station
The venue is less than a 15 minute walk from Central Station
The venue is close to 22, 351, 354, 40 and X1 bus links
Many city centre bus links are within 10 minutes from the venue

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 One Strawberry Lane, NE1 4BX (an accessible building). For more information on how to find us, please see our 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.