EventsEvents
South East Northumberland Funding Event 2013
Once again both local infrastructure organisations in South East Northumberland Community and Voluntary Action Blyth Valley and Wansbeck Centre for Voluntary Service have joined forces and arranged a joint funding event for VCS groups in South East Northumberland. The event was held at the Isabella Community Centre, in Blyth on Tuesday 23rd April. The event was a great success with nearly 100 delegates attending and 12 funders. Jim Mackison was also in attendance undertaking a training workshop about fundraising with a focus on more sustainable funding.
Feedback from the event was excellent, as usual, and our groups and funders were full of praise and compliments. The funders enjoyed themselves talking to members of groups on a one-to-one basis about their projects. During the lunch break groups, funders and staff from both CVA Blyth Valley and Wansbeck CVS were able to network.
View attached evaluation summaries from groups and funders.
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Delegates discussing their projects with the funders.
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South East Northumberland Funding Event 2012
Community and Voluntary Action Blyth Valley (CVABV) and Wansbeck Centre for Voluntary Service (WCVS) have arranged this joint funding event.
The event was an informal one with Voluntary and Community Sector organisations having the opportunity to talk to funders on a one-to-one basis and also to attend a training workshop to improve the quality of future funding applications.
We had 16 funders attending the event, with 85 people representing 70 VCS groups, as well as a Market Place of organisations which groups were able to visit whilst waiting for thier 15-minute appointments with the funders.
Jim Mackison attended the event and gave two talks on how to improve the quality of future funding applications both during the morning and afternoon sessions.
Feedback from the event has been better than ever with some very favourable comments from both funders and groups alike.
CVA Blyth Valley Funding Fayre
Our 2011 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.
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The main hall at Seaton Sluice Community Centre |
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Groups met in the small hall for |
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:
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Groups enjoying a networking buffet lunch at our Fairshares Funding Fayre held on Tuesday 8 September 2009. |
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Delegates attending the Heritage Lottery |
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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.
Contact us on 01670 353623 - Info@cvabv.org.uk
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Thom Bradley, Chief Executive of CVA Blyth Valley