Connected Voice Networking Event - Making Your Building Work for You - Newcastle

This Connected Voice Networking Event is for organisations based in Newcastle. 

Making Your Building Work for You is a networking event about the potentials, successes and challenges of owning and managing property in the VCSE sector.

For many organisations, owning, leasing, or managing space is an essential part of delivering the important work that they do. Community hubs, social spaces, cafes and shops; buildings are an important part of the VCSE sector. They allow people to come together, and help organisations to deliver long-term, embedded work with communities. However, balancing the cost of running a community-focused building with the benefits that it can bring can be a significant challenge.

Whether you’ve managed your own building for years or are just looking to take the next step into renting your first space, this networking event will give you opportunities to share knowledge, make connections, and learn about how other people are making buildings work for them.

There will be opportunities to hear from exciting speakers, as well as an extended structured networking activity to help people build connections. We will have speakers from:

The Lighthouse Project
Newcastle Council
Northern Powergrid Foundation

This is for voluntary organisations across Newcastle and Gateshead. There will be two events- one focused on Newcastle-organisations, and one focused on Gateshead-based organisations. Each event will have different speakers. You are welcome to attend either event, or both!
The event will take place at One Strawberry Lane

Address: 

One Strawberry Lane

Newcastle upon Tyne 

NE1 4BX

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 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 This event will take place at One Strawberry Lane (an accessible venue). For more information about the venue see their website. 

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.