Join the first ever Great North VCFSE Exchange in 2026

Join Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) for the first ever Great North VCFSE Exchange which will explore how voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector organisations are making relationships with their strategic authorities work.

How does your area work with its strategic authority?
VSNW are inviting VCFSE leaders from across the North to share learning, explore what good partnership working looks like, and build stronger connections with strategic authorities.

The webinar session will draw on experiences from across the North, while creating space to reflect on how different areas are working with their strategic authority.

This is an opportunity to learn from each other and begin to define effective strategic authority and VCFSE partnership.

Together, we’ll:
• Share examples of partnership working from across the region
• Reflect on what’s working well – and what could be done differently
• Build stronger connections between VCFSE leaders and strategic authorities

Ahead of the event, VSNW be surveying Northern VCFSE leaders to understand current activity and ambitions. The findings will help shape the discussion and identify opportunities for collective learning.

This is a space to connect, compare approaches and begin to define what effective partnership looks like for the North.