Connected Voice brings together the voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations serving Newcastle and Gateshead with the second of our Autumn 2021 Networking Events.

These events:

• Showcase and celebrate best and innovative practice
• Inspire participants with new ideas and ways to meet the needs of their communities
• Connect people and organisations to forge new partnerships and ways of working together to the same goals

After careful consideration, Connected Voice has decided to continue delivering our Networking Events via Zoom for our Autumn series.

This time we're focusing on the variety of ways that local VCSE organisations are taking action to tackle climate emergency and climate change.

Introduced by our Chief Executive Lisa Goodwin, and hosted by one of our Connected Voice trustees, we'll have a range of speakers from environmental, climate change and green specific VCSE organisations, and mainstream organisations working to address these issues too - amongst beneficaries, volunteers, staff and trustees and across the work of their organisations.

Confirmed Speakers so far:

Magic Hat Cafe (Project Bind) - The Magic Hat Café is a not-for-profit run by BIND. BIND is a not-for-profit food waste hub that promotes positive, creative approaches to reduce food waste and drive behaviour change. They focus their work on changing public attitudes, education, local policy and collaborating with local private, public and third sector organisations to deliver consistent, effective projects to reduce food waste.

Carol Botten - CEO of VONNE with an update on the VONNE Climate Action Alliance (VCAA) and their new Going Green Together initiative, and the work that North East England Climate Coalition and VCAA are undertaking around including and amplifying the views of people and communities less involved in regional decision making, and those most likely to be impacted by climate change.

Sophie Watkinson - Director of Stomping Grounds Forest School - a social enterprise working throughout North East England to bring communities together and reconnect them with nature.

Judith Temple - Officer Manager at Connected Voice. Offering the perspective of the person who has to negotiate with energy suppliers and stationery suppliers to put our Climate Emergency Action Plan into practice.

Ceri Gibson - CEO of Tyne Rivers Trust. On the topical issue water quality but also natural flood management and Rain Gardens. With examples of work in the Gateshead area and more broadly about the Tyne catchment.

Pete Barrett - Community Foundation for Tyne & Wear and Northumberland. Providing guidance around its range of environment related grants and the revised criteria for the LEAF Fund.

Plus:

• An overview of the range of relevant services available from Connected Voice
• Performance from a local VCSE climate emergency focused organisation or project
• Workshops with very practical outcomes for your own organisation..
• An opportunity for you to contribute to a quickfire round of organisations who will have two minutes to share what they're doing.

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Note: Connected Voice is the voluntary sector infrastructure support organisation for Newcastle and Gateshead in the North-East of England. Free places at this event will be prioritised for VCSE organisations serving this part of our region. Registrations from outside our area, and our sector, may therefore be declined.

Accessibility

All our Zoom training and events will have closed captions (automatic subtitles) enabled. We can also 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.