Newcastle CVS

Newcastle CVS holds occasional breakfast meetings to enable local voluntary and community networks and organisations to come together to discuss and share key issues about the sector.  It provides a mechanism for collective action and articulating the sector's views.

November 2011 - fourth networks meeting

NCVS hosted the latest networks meeting on 16 November at Northern Stage. Cllr Nick Forbes, leader of Newcastle City Council attended the first half of the meeting and spoke about the challenges ahead facing the city and the council.

• November 2011 networks meeting notes

June 2011 - third breakfast meeting

This third breakfast meeting was held on 29 June 2011.  It was an opportunity to find out how voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) are coping with cuts in public sector funding and changes to national policy in areas such as housing and benefits.

The meeting revealed the impact changes are having on the sector and the communities VCOs work with and signalled an increasing pressure on the sector to provide services and meet the needs of beneficiaries.

• June 2011 breakfast meeting notes

October 2010 - second breakfast meeting

On 27 October 2010, Newcastle CVS hosted a second breakfast meeting which included an update about what we knew locally about the impact of public sector budget cuts and changes to national policy.  There was a discussion about how voluntary and community sector organisations could respond.  The meeting took place the same day as the Newcastle City Council's Executive Committee meeting at which they received a set of reports on the Comprehensive Spending Review and the council's Budget Process 2011/12.

• October 2010 breakfast meeting notes
• Newcastle City Council executive committee meeting on 27 October papers and 2010 Spending Review and Budget Process 2011/12 papers

July 2010 - first breakfast meeting

Newcastle CVS invited voluntary and community organisations in Newcastle to a breakfast meeting at MEA House on 7 July 2010 to begin a dialogue about how the sector could respond to the rapid changes being announced to public sector services by the coalition government and to the 25% spending cuts contained in the emergency budget.

The breakfast meeting was an opportunity to share what was known to date about the effect locally of national changes to public policy and to affirm that a thriving voluntary and community sector is essential to a healthy civil society and particularly important for those communities which are often the most disadvantaged and with which the sector does so much work.

• July 2010 breakfast meeting notes
• Breakfast meeting key points summary, that was later sent to Paul Woods, Director of Finance and Resources at Newcastle City Council
• Newcastle City Council executive committee report on national Budget changes for their 21 July meeting 

To find out more about the breakfast meetings email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  at Newcastle CVS or phone her on 0191 232 7445.