NAVCA Annual Conference

Our conference was kindly sponsored by In Kind Direct and Ladbrook Insurance.

In Kind Direct are a UK charity focused on distributing consumer products, donated by companies, to voluntary and charitable organisations across the UK to ensure that everyone has access to the products they need to keep clean, safe and well. They will be hosting a workshop for conference attendees.

Ladbrook Insurance are an independent insurance broker solely focused on the charity sector. Ladbrook already support many NAVCA members with their insurance and would be delighted to advise any NAVCA members at a time of rising insurance premiums.

The NAVCA Annual Conference and AGM 2022 was designed to be a Thinking Space - a space for our members to network, hear from keynote speakers and attend workshop sessions. The theme of the 2022 conference was 'Tackling poverty locally'. 

With the cost of living crisis impacting increasing numbers of people in the communities that our members work with, our conference aimed to create a space where we could learn about this issue from different perspectives. From the ways in which poverty affects health, to the disproportionate impact of poverty on marginalised communities, we explored different issues through facilitated workshop sessions and keynote speeches. 

Keynote speakers and workshops:

• Keynote speaker: Jake Ferguson, Strategic Advisor at the Black Equity Organisation and former CEO of Hackney CVS.

• Keynote speaker: Greg Fell, Director of Public Health in Sheffield.

• Workshop: Making the most of an ethnically diverse Britain, hosted by Stella Ngozi Mbubaegbu CBE. 

• Workshop: Trans inclusion is for everyone, hosted by Christopher Owen from Manchester Pride.

• Workshop: Keeping your organisation safe, a cyber security workshop hosted by the National Cyber Security Centre.

• Workshop: Poverty Truth Commissions, hosted by the team at York CVS. 

• Workshop: Food Insecurity and Cultural Awareness, hosted by Atiha Chaudry from the Rafiki Network and Graham Whitam from Greater Manchester Poverty Action.

• Workshop: Resilience, hosted by Bruce Mann from the National Preparedness Commission. 

• Workshop: Presenting the findings of the Connecting Locally research project, hosted by Dr Rob Macmillan from Sheffield Hallam University. 

• Workshop: Health inequalities, hosted by a team from Community Links Bromley. 

Our conference was kindly sponsored by AideCRM, Volunteer Plus and the National Cyber Security Centre.

Photographs from our conference were taken by Ed Jones and Melody Peacock.