NCVA has released its Annual Report for April 2021 to March 2022 for approval at the organisation’s AGM on 8 November 2022.
Much of the period covered by the report was still subject to emergency measures in place to manage the Covid-19 pandemic. The report document also looks forward to the current and coming periods of change facing NCVA and the voluntary and community sector as a whole.
During the report year despite the difficult circumstances NCVA:
- Delivered £4.27 million of funding to voluntary and community groups in Northumberland
- Posted 538 new volunteering opportunities
- Delivered weekly ‘Tea and IT’ sessions for older people learning digital skills
- Handed out over 100 free ‘pay as you go’ SIM cards to local community groups
- Provided support to 354 member community organisations
- Delivered 1975 hours of telephone ‘befriending’ support to vulnerable people in Northumberland during the pandemic.
NCVA Chair Executive, Caroline Rogan, said:
“Over the last twelve months delivery methods were adapted to ensure the people we serve could continue to receive the support they so desperately needed. With support from our wonderful funders we have continued to provide projects that have reduced isolation, provided digital connectivity, promoted volunteering confidence, supported community needs & development and provided employment confidence, skills and training.
“We have continued to support the sector through disseminating crucial information via social media and platforms, facilitation of networks, providing information with support and advice to individuals and groups and providing a hub of infrastructure services to support the sector to continue delivering their much needed services.”
Chair of NCVA Trustees, Rodney James, added:
“Behind the statistics in the Annual Review there are human stories of how we have been of help and a support to many in what has still been a difficult year, however they are now historic. There are opportunities out there and we need to have a positive attitude to these challenges, and that we need to adopt the attitude that ‘we can’ in order to play our part to help and support the needs around us in the year ahead.”
At the AGM NCVA formally launched its new brand and website where the full NCVA Annual report can be found here.