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Upcoming Events

There are a number of events happening across Northumberland where you can get involved in shaping healthcare services, or you can just keep up to date with what’s going on. Events for patients, carers and those with or recovering from certain conditions take place regularly, and we will try our best to post all the details here on our website.

If you have an upcoming event related to health and wellbeing in Northumberland and would like us add it to the events calendar, please drop us an email: info@healthwatchnorthumberland.co.uk.

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2nov2:00 pm- 4:00 pmFriday Afternoon Tea Dance

14nov10:30 am- 12:30 pmCommunity Information Morning Hexham

14nov10:30 am- 12:00 pmAdapt (NE) AGM

15nov11:00 am- 2:00 pmNorthumberland CVA AGM

Event Details

The speaker for the Northumberland CVA AGM is Dr Jim Brown, Consultant in Public Health, Adult Social Care and Strategic Health Commissioning. Jim has been involved in the development of the Empowering People and Communities strand of the NCC Public Health Strategy, recognising the value and benefits of asset-based approaches to improving the health and wellbeing of communities. He will talk about ‘The Value of the VCS and the importance of its contribution in reducing poverty and improving health and wellbeing’.

Following the AGM, workshop activity will use an asset-based approach to help identify the gifts, skills, knowledge and passions that runs through every individual and organisation involved with the voluntary sector in Northumberland. This approach is about valuing already available assets in order to nurture them and connect them for the benefit of the voluntary and community sector.

The first stage of this approach is a conversation about ‘what is strong, not what is wrong’ within the voluntary and community sector in Northumberland at the present time. We’ll then look to identify some of the skills, knowledge and passions that could be used to build on those strengths. Finally, we’ll investigate some of the practical measures we can take to make this happen.

Running order:

11:00am – 12:00pm: AGM
12:00pm – 12.45pm: Buffet lunch
12:45pm to 2.00pm: Workshop, ‘Making the most of what we have’

Places will be limited for this event so please book early by emailing enquire@northumberlandcva.org.uk.