Today is week 4 of our new course Movement, Planets and Digital in collaboration with Eliot Smith Dance And today we’re off to Life Science Centre as part of our devising process! This project has been funded by Newcastle City Council Culture Investment Fund administered by @CFTyneWearNland

Today was week 4 of Eliot Smith Dance outreach course “Movement, Planets and Digital” Converge Northumbria 🪐 Ten participants visited their local Life Science Centre contributing to their upcoming dance performance. Supported by Newcastle City Council Culture Investment Fund @CFTyneWearNland

Great opportunity at Alphabetti Theatre 👇🏼👇🏼

Final rehearsals are underway for ESD’s course ‘Movement, Planets, Digital’ Converge Northumbria ahead of next week’s final sharing event. Over the past 6 weeks members have been working with @eliotgsmith to create a new dance piece 🪐 with kind support from Newcastle City Council @CFTyneWearNland

Join us in saying happy birthday to The National Lottery ! 🎁🎈 We’re so grateful to have been granted our core funding from The National Lottery Community Fund and we just wanted to take a moment to say thank you, happy birthday and here’s to many more years of supporting other wonderful organisations to come!

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A great big warm welcome to Dr Simon Proctor the new Director of Converge at York St John University. We’re so excited for this new phase and wish you all the best in your new role. Can’t wait to work with you Simon! 🥳

Did you know we run Well-being Drops at Northumbria Students’ Union as part of their Well-Being Wednesdays? 🎨 These are informal drop ins where Northumbria Uni students have a chance to relax, have free tea and coffee and have fun. Last Wednesday of the month 10:30am - 12pm Say hello!

5 days left to apply for our new ‘Community Activity Facilitator’ role 📣

Out now, your new prospectus for all the wholesome fun and games from January through to Easter 2025 recoverycoco.com/jan-to-easter

The Converge office is now closed for the holidays! We’d like to thank all of our students, colleagues, volunteers, board members, funders and advocates for all of your support and hard work this year! Wishing you a wonderful festive break and a happy and healthy New Year!

New Courses 📣 We’re thrilled to announce 4 new courses! Due to high demand, the Converge office will process your application and endeavour to allocate you at least one of your chosen courses. Please contact [email protected] Northumbria Graduate Futures The National Lottery Community Fund

Welcome to the team!! 📣 Jennine will be joining us in an exciting brand new role as our Creative Evaluator, so you’ll see her popping into our various groups and workshops. Jennine has been a long standing supporter of Converge and we’re thrilled to have her onboard 🥳 #team

Our Coordinator Cat and our Student in Residence Adam were down at Northumbria Students’ Union Refreshers Fair ! It was great fun getting to meet the new cohort of Northumbria Uni students wile reconnecting with some other fab local orgs! For more info, email [email protected]

Reflecting on a fab workshop series by Katherine Butler, check out her blog below !

It's #SocialPrescribingDay today! Our team are out and about today visiting VCSE organisations across #Newcastle Here's Carla and Jackie at Converge Northumbria with Ally and Lucas Find out more about social prescribing at bit.ly/4hvUtvP

Happy Social Prescribing Day! Here's to our amazing team of social prescribers who have been out & about in #Newcastle today, visiting VCSE organisations including Chillistudios Converge Northumbria St Oswald's Hospice Smart Works Charity Shelter ReCoCo Scotswood Garden Search Newcastle