North East Together event 28: It's a netPARTY not a netWORK

It's a netPARTY not a netWORK: celebrating ten years of North East Together, celebrating ten years of mutual support, inspiration and collaboration

North East Together launched in November 2014 with a mission of mutual support, inspiration and collaboration for leaders of social change in the north east. We think it's about time we celebrated all that we've been up to over the last ten-ish years.

We've met in-person and online, all with a focus on informal networking, platformed inspiring speakers and helped members have their own voice, asking questions and reflecting together, maximising opportunities for everyone to take part. Together we've scraped through a global pandemic, supporting NET members with coaching and action learning. We've formed collaborative working groups, led and inspired new initiatives, and hosted collaborative events and conferences.

We've tweaked things a little over the years - from leaders of social change to social change leadership shifting from a noun to a verb, from something you are to something you do. And to using more systems and complexity informed language.

But most of all we've seeded and nurtured relationships and connections, the essential building blocks of social change and collaboration.

This is all something to celebrate.

Our netPARTY in July includes connecting and nurturing relationships, portrait making, comment wall, a screening of North East Together members' memories and thoughts on the themes of mutual support, inspiration and collaboration, as well as conversation and socialising. We'll share more of the programme soon as well as how to contribute your memories and thoughts to the short film.

Our outline timings are

• 17:00-17:30 - arriving, settling in, mingling and informal networking

• 17:30-19:00 – it's a netPARTY not a netWORK

• 19:00 to later - more informal networking, socialising, and conversation

We can't wait to see you in July.

About North East Together

North East Together is the network for social change leadership in the north east.

Our collective mission here at North East Together is to create the conditions, and platform for, collaboration to become the norm in the north east and to nurture a healthier social change system. Together we can do this.

We believe that bringing people together to tackle social injustice will create positive change - in our communities, organisations and the social systems we live and work within. Our network offers mutual support, enables collaboration and inspires social leaders. We offer a series of dynamic network events; whole day events, self-organised collaborative working groups; pathways into coaching; and independent social change events. It’s for leaders from the voluntary, charity, social enterprise, education, public and private sectors. It’s for experienced, new and future leaders of organisations, work, and ideas.

North East Together is hosted by Yes We Can. We’re grateful for the support Yes We Can gives to North East Together.

How we use your data

We use your name and email address to run the event. We will send you a confirmation email when you book, the advance information a week or so before the event, and an event follow up email. We will not use your email address for anything else. If you ask to be added to the NET mailing list when you book, we'll add your name and email address to our mailing list, which we run via JISCMail.

We will share information about how to join North East Together if you are not already a member in the confirmation, pre-event and follow up emails. You can also join at the event.