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Reflections on Conference 2025: Shifting Sands

On 26 November 2025, we gathered at St Mary's Heritage Centre in Gateshead for the VONNE Annual Conference & AGM — this year under the banner “…

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Key Autumn Budget 2025 Takeaways for the VCSE Sector

The 2025 Autumn Budget has landed with a mix of modest wins and ongoing challenges for VCSE organisations. To support members, our Policy and Data…

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Guest Blog: Impact Family Services - Supporting Families Across South Tyneside

As part of our package of member benefits, VONNE’s Gold and Silver Membership+ supporters have the opportunity to submit a guest post …

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Going Green Together Webinar Series

We kick-off our Going Green Together Autumn Webinar series on 29th October with our first event that will focus on Engagement, Capacity and Time. We’…

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State of the Sector

Tackling health-related economic inactivity in the North East

Across the North East and North Cumbria, major programmes are coming together to tackle economic inactivity. From the Economic Inactivity Trailblazer…

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State of the Sector

Working Together on the North East Combined Authority Economic Inactivity Trailblazer

We’re pleased to share that VONNE will be working on the North East Combined Authority’s (NECA) Economic Inactivity Trailblazer, a new initiative…

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Meet the VONNE Policy Team

We’re thrilled to introduce our new Policy team at VONNE. Policy Manager, Siobhan and Data Officer, Georgia have moved from our Health and Wellbeing…

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FINE - Celebrating 10 years of supporting you

Members tell us that funding information is one of the main reasons they join VONNE, with over 70% of Membership+ members using the funding bulletin…

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Guest Blog: Vision for Access CIC - Breaking Down Barriers in Digital Accessibility

As part of our 1,500 members celebrations, we caught up with one of our newest members, Vision for Access CIC, to find out more about their work and…

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Guest Blog: Taking flight with social investment - BlueJay Wellness joins the VONNE community

As part of our 1,500 members celebrations, we caught up with one of the newest members of VONNE, BlueJay Wellness, to find out more about their work…

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Guest Blog: Children North East - We're stronger together through VONNE membership

As part of our 1,500 members celebrations, we caught up with one of the longest standing members of VONNE, Children North East, to find out more…

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Health and Wellbeing

Reflections on VONNE's Health and Wellbeing work

In her new blog Siobhan Flynn shares her reflections on her time working in VONNE's Health and Wellbeing team, as VCSE Engagement Manager, and her…

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