Big Lottery Funded Development Project - Timeline
| Late 2003 |
Grant awarded for feasibility study |
| January 2004 - May 2005 |
Feasibility study |
| May 2005 |
Big Lottery Fund bid finalised and submitted |
| March 2006 |
Big Lottery Fund grant awarded - £315,000 over 3 years -
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| May 2006 |
Big Lottery Development Project - detailed planning starts |
| 1st June 2006 |
Official Big Lottery Development Project start date |
| June / July 2006 |
Additional office space, 2 new phone numbers, logo redesign,
new IT equipment, membership data system development started,
interviews for new staff.
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| August 2006 |
IT systems installed, new email and website addresses, 1 new member of staff appointed |
| September 2006 |
New 0845 and 0800 telephone numbers now available, second new staff member appointed, membership data system development continues. |
| November 2006 |
The new membership data system - 'VIPA' - is underway and a new membership form has been developed to complement this. |
| March 2007 |
New logo nearly finalised and web site discussion forum in final testing. |
| April 30th 2007 |
The new Discussion Forum for NGVFA members is now live. |
| May 11th 2007 |
Logo chosen. |
| May 31st 2007 |
End of Year 1 of the development project. |
| June 29th 2007 |
1st regional Information Day in Newcastle |
| June 30th 2007 |
1st section of VIPA database complete, installed and running. |
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