Events

CVA Blyth Valley Funding Fayre

Our latest Funding Fayre was held at the Briardale Community Centre, Briardale Road, Blyth, on Tuesday 18 October 2011.

There were 10 funders in attendance on the day providing one to one appointments: Banks Community Fund; Big Lottery / Awards for All; Coalfields Regeneration Trust; Community Foundation; Co-operative Community Fund; Homes for Northumberland; Joicey Trust; Lloyds TSB Foundation; Rothley Trust and R W Mann Trust.

Groups attending were asked to complete an evaluation form and some very favourable comments were received when asked "What did groups like most about the funding fayre"?

"Meeting the Funders - friendly and helpful staff"
"Chance to meet the funders face to face"
"Meeting the funders"
"We were made to feel welcome and kept informed, funders were informative"
"Organisations"
"Face to face contact with funders"
"Chance to meet the funders face to face (and the chocolate eclairs!!)
"Opportuntity to meet with funders and discuss potential applications"
"Well organised"
"Being able to talk abouy our projects"
"Meeting the funders face to face and discussing projects"
"Well organised and promoted - great feeback from CVA staff"
"You could choose the funder you wanted to meet with"
"Meeting funders face to face"
“It was very useful to gain lots of info from different funders in one place”
“Very useful, well organised event”
“Well organised and good day”
“None, was great day”
“Very good”

Northumberland Funding Event

Community & Voluntary Action Blyth Valley, Community Action Northumberland and Wansbeck Centre for Voluntary Service held their first ever joint county-wide funding event on 30 March 2011 at Choppington Social Welfare Centre.

The day was a huge success - thanks to all those groups who attended. Approximately 200 people attended the event visiting 21 Funders in their 15-minute one-to-one appointments. A ‘market place’ stand occupied another hall and workshop presentations from the Big Lottery and Community Foundation were delivered in the large meeting room.

During the lunch break groups were able to network with funders, other groups, market place organisations and the organisers.

Please click here to view the evaluation report from the day.

Fairshares Funding Fayre

Our latest Funding Fayre in the Seaton Valley area was held on Tuesday 7 September 2010 at Seaton Sluice Community Centre from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm followed by a buffet lunch. 8 funders attended the event.

The main hall at Seaton Sluice Community Centre
was used for funders and groups in their
one-to-one appointments.

Groups met in the small hall for
refreshments and to wait for their
appointments and presentation times.

A Fairshares Funding Fayre was held on Tuesday 8 September 2009 at Seghill Institute Community Centre, Main Road, Seghil. 8 funders were in attendance at this event:

	Groups enjoying a networking buffet lunch at our Fairshares Funding Fayre held on Tuesday 8 September 2009.
Delegates attending the Heritage Lottery presentation at our Fairshares Funding Fayre at Seghill.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries about our Funding Fayres on: info@cvabv.org.uk

Quiz Night

Previous Quizzes

Our annual Christmas quiz night is a very popular event which is held in December to get our voluntary and community groups together in an informal way. Our quizzes are very popular and our VCS groups enjoy a very enjoyable fun-filled evening.

Our quiz in 2010 was held on Tuesday 7 December 2010 at The Comrades Club, Wright Street, Blyth.

Even though the weather was cold and the streets were covered in snow and ice we still had around 70 people turn out for the Quiz Night, so thank you very much to all those who attended.

8 rounds of quizzes were undertaken as well as our Celebrity Santa picture round.

The teams enjoyed a very fun-filled and enjoyable evening including a free buffet. Thank you to all those who turned up to make this a very successful and enjoyable event, better luck next year. From the 13 teams taking part the winning team, for the 4th year running, was the team from the Community Enterprise Centre, although other teams were very close.

Quiz Night 2010      Thom Bradley, Chief Executive of CVA Blyth Valley
     presenting the trophy to Ray Gibb, from the winning
     team at CEC