The Regeneration Project was set up in January 1998 to support and promote the voluntary sector’s involvement in regeneration activity in Newcastle.  Millions of pounds are invested in both social and physical regeneration initiatives in the city and the Regen Project’s aim is to ensure the voluntary sector, through representation and engagement, can influence the scope and shape of those initiatives.  In recent years we have broadened our focus to include the themes of the Newcastle Partnership, which cover community safety, employability, health, children’s service, housing and the environment.

We have a number of ways of achieving our aims:

The Regen Forum has a membership of almost 300 voluntary groups covering the whole City geographically and with a comprehensive range of activity, purpose and size. For more information about the Regen Forum, click here. 

re:gen newsletter

re:gen is the quarterly newsletter of the Regen Forum and carries the latest information about the Newcastle Partnership and regeneration activity in the city as well as news about national, regional and sub-regional initiatives which are relevant to the voluntary sector.

Representation

We support representatives elected from NCVS and Regen Forum membership to sit on the Newcastle Partnership and its Delivery Partnerships as well as other multi-sector partnership and bodies, for example Newcastle Futures.

Development work

We develop and promote the role of the voluntary sector in policy and strategy making processes. Examples include employability, Newcastle’s Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy and the city’s Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement.

Information

We regularly provide information to the sector on regeneration and policy issues using a number of methods; the re:gen newsletter, Regen Forum mailing lists and reference groups and NCVS e-inform (NCVS’s weekly email bulletin).  We can also give information on a one-to-one basis by telephone, email or meetings by appointment.

You can contact us by phone on 0191 232 7445, by email regen@cvsnewcastle.org.uk or by post to Regeneration Project, NCVS, MEA House, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8XS.

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