Annual Conference & AGM 2008

VONNE held a successful and well-attended conference last month. Over 120 people attended the event on 30 October held at Sunderland's Quayside Exchange. Keynote speakers were The Right Hon. Francis Maude MP, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Kevin Curley, Chief Executive of NAVCA (the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action).

VONNE will be producing a full conference report, which will be available here from the end of November.

Kevin Curley's speech, entitled 'Threats and opportunities - can we handle them?' is now available to download from NAVCA's website:

Threats and opportunities - can we handle them? >>

For those who are interested in following up Francis Maude's speech, the Conservative's policy green paper 'A stronger society - voluntary action in the 21st century' is available to download from the Conservative's website:

A stronger society - voluntary action in the 21st century (PDF 1.1MB)

VONNE AGM

New board members were elected at the AGM, the full list can be seen on our Board page.

Jo Curry, Chief Executive of VONNE made a speech at the AGM which is available below.

Jo Curry, Chief Executive of VONNE speech >> (Word 41kb)