Member Events

One of our LVET Member Benefits is our Member Events. We have regular Online Members Meetings, Learning & Development Sessions and Challenges & Opportunities meetings.

What are they?

Online Member Meetings

Connect & Communicate

Sharing knowledge, information, and meeting others is part of our core work around connecting, communicating, and collaborating.

Our Online Member Meetings to come together virtually!  We:

  • Hear from a couple of speakers on a given topic to share different perspectives (which naturally generates conversations)
  • Hear from you on your news, projects, events, and opportunities, and share things that are happening around the county
  • Share updates and news from LVET on new and current projects
  • Facilitate and encourage connecting/ networking/ introductions to new organisations and people
  • Share any new funding opportunities
  • Have open discussions around the day-to-day challenges of our Members (and what we can collectively do about them)

Each meeting theme varies, so join us if you can!

We vary the times and days of the meetings throughout the year to accommodate the varied working patterns of our Members.

Learning & Development

Build Resilience & Demonstrate Impact & Value

Our Learning & Development Sessions focus on practical and relevant topics to support you and your organisation. Each session offers opportunities to:

  • Build new skills or strengthen existing ones
  • Find ways to work more effectively,
  • Discover approaches to demonstrate your impact
  • Learn how to tell your story with confidence

Not every session will cover all of these areas, but each one is designed to be useful and engaging. Sessions run throughout the year, in person or online, with content shaped by members’ ideas and feedback.

Challenges & Opportunities

Advocacy & Build Resilience

Our Challenges & Opportunities Meetings bring together leaders, senior managers, and CEOs from across health, care, and wellbeing VCFSE organisations to explore emerging issues and strategic priorities, share experiences, and collaborate on solutions. We strongly believe that collaboration, connection, and relationships are key. These are held quarterly and are held generally online, and offer you the opportunity to:

  • Get involved in interesting and relevant conversations
  • Have conversations on current issues and topics, highlighting key issues that you want wider system partners to be aware of
  • Speak openly and freely, in a safe space, about challenging, demanding topics with the aim and intention of working collaboratively with other leaders to find solutions
  • Network and make new connections with like-minded people and their organisations

Upcoming Events!

13th October | Members’ Meeting

Reaching Underserved Communities · 10am–12pm · Online

Join us to discuss how we can better understand and engage underserved communities in Lincolnshire, including how we identify groups facing barriers and what more we can do to support their involvement in health, care and wellbeing.

This meeting will be slightly different to our usual format and will focus on open discussions rather than presentations.  We’ve had lots of interest, so we’ve extended the session to two hours.

Book your place here

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20th October | Workshop

Greening Your Organisation · 11am–12pm · Online

The Energy Smart East Lindsey Programme, which is funded through the East Lindsey Investment Fund, are delighted to announce a brand-new series of fully funded events supporting organisations and social enterprises to:

1. Save Money Now
2. Gain New Revenue Streams

3. Improve long term Energy Efficiency

As part of our partnership with LVET, we are delighted to offer the first of two free online Learning Workshops delivered by Vicky Dunn of Grimsby Community Energy, a local energy specialist and social enterprise. These short, one-hour, online sessions will give live tasters of the longer face-to-face events which will be available in East Lindsey over the next two years.

This virtual series opens on October 20th from 11:00 AM to 12:00 noon with Be Business Energy Smart! – An Introduction, a practical workshop for organisations who want to cut energy costs now, build new income streams and make future energy efficiency gains. Jargon-free and including real local examples, you’ll learn what you’re actually paying for; how to spot energy red flags; energy contracting with confidence in a shifting market; alternative energy options; and how green credentials can open-up new customer revenue streams. You’ll leave with a shortlist of no-cost energy-saving actions.

You do not have to attend the first event to benefit from the second, as they offer useful takeaways independently of each other. However, the second event will reflect on and be partially shaped by the feedback and outcomes the first.

Important: You do not need to be based in East Lindsey to attend these, LVET supported, online sessions, though future in-person events & support will be based in East Lindsey. These workshops are free to attend and are open to LVET members & non-members, community buildings, social enterprises and all other VCFSE organisations.

Book your place here

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28th October | Workshop

Planning for the Future: Conversations that Matter · 1pm–3pm · Online

People often raise worries, questions and plans for the future in trusted community settings.  But how confident do we feel responding to those conversations?

Hosted by LVET on behalf of the It’s All About People Team, this VCFSE Conversations webinar will bring together colleagues from across Lincolnshire to explore how we can better support people to plan ahead and access the information, advice and support they need.

The session will include contributions from:

  • Louise Johnson, Head of Integrated Community Partnership
  • Simon Brasck and Kelly Lindley Woods, Age UK Lincolnshire
  • Jane Mawer, Maples Solicitors 
  • Chloe Pearson, St Barnabas

Join us for an informal discussion, practical insights and the opportunity to share experiences with others working across the VCFSE community.

Book your place here

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12th November | Workshop

Fresh Approaches to Familiar Challenges · 10am–12pm (please arrive for 9.45am for a 10am start)  · In person

Location: The Community Room, Sleaford Town Council, The Town Hall, Quayside House, Navigation Yard, Sleaford, NG34 7TW

When a challenge has been around for a while, it is easy to find ourselves returning to the same answers. Sometimes the most useful thing we can do is pause, take a step back and look at it from a different angle.
Join David Regler of Maine Associates Ltd for a practical, in-person workshop designed to help us do exactly that. David will introduce a range of thinking tools that can help you question assumptions, see familiar problems differently and find new ways forward.
The session will be useful if you are working through a particular challenge, looking at how a service could work better or simply wanting to bring some fresh thinking into your team. There will be time to try the tools, hear from others in the room and consider how you could use them within your own organisation.

Eastgate Car Park is the recommended place to park. Please allow enough time to park and pay for your ticket before following Navigation Wharf on foot to the Town Hall. You will be asked to sign in when you arrive.

Book your place here

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18th November | Learning & Development Session

Measuring in-kind contributions for match funding · 1–2.30pm · Online

Join us for our November Learning & Development Session, where we’ll explore gifts in kind and match funding. We’ll look at how gifts in kind can help strengthen your funding applications, what can be counted as a gift in kind, how to calculate and evidence these contributions, and how they can be used as part of match funding. Whether it’s volunteer time, donated expertise, free use of facilities or other support, understanding the value of what your organisation already receives can make a real difference when applying for funding.

We’ll also help demystify some of the language often used by funders, including terms such as social value, social outcomes, social return on investment (SROI), corporate volunteering and general volunteering, explaining what they mean and how they relate to your work.

Book your place here

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1st December | Workshop

Greening Your Organisation · 11am–12pm · Online

Join us for the final part of our Greening Your Organisation workshop series, where we’ll be joined once again by Roy Harper and focusing on the wider environmental impact.  This session has also been funded by East Lindsey District Council.

Book your place here

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8th December | Challenges & Opportunities Meeting

1–2.30pm · Online

Join us for our quarterly Challenges and Opportunities meeting, bringing together senior leaders from health and care VCFSE organisations. Conversations will vary depending on what’s happening at the time, but do register to come along for a thought-provoking session.

Book your place here

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3rd December | Statutory Funded Organisations: Space to talk

1–2.30pm · Online

Some LVET members previously suggested that having the opportunity to connect with others who are either fully or partially funded through contracts with the NHS, Local Authorities, or other statutory bodies is potentially valuable.
After our first meeting in September, those who attended agreed that a quarterly meeting would meet their needs.

Join us for the second of these ​meetings designed for you to connect with other organisations across Lincolnshire. This is more of an open forum meeting than our usual member meetings, with no formal presentations, but it gives you the floor, with maybe one or two questions from us on how you find working with statutory partners.

Book your place here

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17th December | Members’ Meeting

End-of-Year Celebration · 1–3.30pm · Online

Let’s finish the year by celebrating what you’ve achieved. Join us to share your successes, proud moments and stories from 2026, and hear about the work happening across our network.

Everyone is welcome — we’d love to celebrate with you.

Book your place here

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