A nineteen-year-old university student from Chester le Street has pledged to help others while doing her degree.
Northumbria University psychology student Courtney Smith has recently started volunteering with The People’s Kitchen in Newcastle and she is already putting her academic theory into practice.
Courtney is studying forensic psychology and a major...
A new generation of firefighters have passed their firefighter training today (Friday) after one of the largest recruitment drives in recent years.
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) are proud to announce that 32 of our latest recruits that started their training at Service Headquarters in Washington back...
Professor Jane Turner OBE DL, former Pro Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Engagement, was an influential business leader in the Tees Valley and a passionate advocate for young women in the region.
In Jane’s memory, the University is now launching the Professor Jane Turner Legacy Programme, which will support future...
Mental health charity, Mental Health Concern, is lead partner of an employability programme, Moving On Tyne & Wear who help people with a health barrier, disability, additional learning need, or autism, get into employment, training, or volunteering.
Since the Moving On Tyne & Wear programme launched in 2017, 75% of...
15 December 2021: Barratt Developments North East is continuing to support young peoples’ careers as four new apprentices join the housebuilder’s Apprenticeship Scheme.
Designed to help young adults kick start their career, Barratt Developments’ Apprenticeship Scheme is welcoming four students across its construction, bricklaying, and joinery departments.
By joining the scheme,...
The Newcastle office of a leading national accountancy firm has teamed up with a Consett based charity to help young people prepare for their future outside of school.
Haines Watts was established in the 1930’s and has always promoted entrepreneurial spirit as one of its business aims. As part...
The region’s leading bus company has teamed up with Gateshead College and hired 11 new apprentices to expand its highly skilled workforce.
The new bus and coach engineers and coachbuilder recruits have joined Go North East to help it maintain and service its fleet of buses as it continues to...
It’s not just new firefighters who have joined one of the regions’ largest Fire and Rescue Service – new voices of hope have joined their Fire Control.
In the last year Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) have welcomed 100 new firefighter recruits into their organisation.
The investment in...
A primary school in Hebburn voted Primary School of the Year at this year’s Times Educational Supplement (TES) awards is celebrating more good news following a recent Ofsted inspection.
St Aloysius Junior School, which is part of Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust, has retained its Ofsted ‘outstanding’ grading following a...
• Research reveals more than a quarter (26%) of people surveyed in Newcastle do not feel that they can be their true selves in their current career or job
• Nationally, 85% of the working Gen Z age group surveyed feel more at ease expressing their individuality in other settings...
