• Date:

  29 Jan 2025

• Time:

  9:30 am - 1:30 pm

• Location:

  Allstate NI, 10 Mays Meadow, Belfast, BT1 3PH

• Price:

  Corporate rate: £54 = VAT (BITC members), £72 + VAT (non-BITC members); Charity rate: £30 + VAT (NICVA members), £48 + VAT (non-NICVA members); Exhibitors: £180 + VAT (Corporate), £90 + VAT (Charity)

Are you a business keen to build stronger, more impactful links with Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations? Or are you a charity keen to connect with businesses across NI? Are purposeful partnerships, social value, or sustainable futures on your radar? If you’ve answered yes, then don’t miss this high-paced and impactful half-day conference.

About this event

• Network: Make new connections in the business and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE).
• Build lasting relationships: consider business/community relationships post-pandemic and how needs and opportunities have or are changing.
• Showcase: Find out about examples of innovative partnership working between the sectors in NI, and the ways in which corporates and the VCSE are evolving relationships.
• Enhance your knowledge: of corporate/charity relationships beyond Northern Ireland.
• Discuss: the current challenges faced by VCSE organisations and the communities they support, along with issues faced by business when engaging with the VSCE sector.
• Themed roundtable discussions: Be part of discussions on areas of mutual interest, including for example: social value, employee volunteering, a sustainable future and more
• Keynote speaker – to be confirmed
• At the end of the day . . . Help shape up a 2025 networking and shared learning event series to strengthen relationships between the corporate and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE).

For more info, visit our conference hub at www.bitcni.org.uk/communityconnections