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Fabrication Boss is Made Up with Firm’s Progress
The Managing Director of a Newcastle engineering firm that resurrected the business after it was dissolved and took it over as a growing concern has bucked the national trend set by COVID of a decline in orders and thrown a lifeline to a Teesside apprentice who lost his job. Steve...
A former Northumberland National Park visitor centre in Rothbury is about to commence its next chapter with the opening of Bewick’s Kitchen & Coffee House this week. Church House, which remains a base for the Northumberland National Park Authority, Forestry England and Northumbria Police will now be sharing the 140-year-old...
Go North East expands workforce following recruitment drive
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...
Colab Launching Careers For Young Individuals In The Creative Sector
Young people looking to work in the creative sector are now able to gain skills and learn their trade in a way that completely reflects how the industry operates thanks to a new approach by Gateshead College. CoLab at Gateshead College has been developed to best prepare students for work...
Student’s Visit to Accountants Adds Up to Good Career Advice
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...
Award-winning Apprentice Josh Kane Helping To Cook Up Healthy School Meals
 A chef at a Sunderland school is reaping the benefits of on-the-job experience by running his own kitchen just three years after joining the school catering team. Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust (BCCET) employed Josh Kane as an apprentice in the kitchens of St Wilfrid’s RC College, based in South...
OPPORTUNI Secures Over £50 Million For Small Businesses
Teesside-based tech start-up, OPPORTUNI, announces contract wins for its clients exceeding £50m over the last quarter, boosting commerce across the UK at a crucial business recovery turning point. New data published on 7th May shows that government spending with small and medium-sized businesses continues to rise with more than £15bn...
A Bedlington software developer has swapped code for co-working and opened a new venture to help home workers connect with their local business community. Andy Millne has taken co-working literally by opening CO22 with his wife Helen. The couple have recently returned to the region from Slovakia where Helen was...
North Tyneside Businesses To Be Recognised For Their Resilience
 Businesses in North Tyneside are about to be recognised for the resilience and diversification they showed which helped them survive and revive during the pandemic.  The annual business awards hosted by North Tyneside Business Forum recognises the achievements of the best businesses in the borough but in February’s presentation evening,...
Council Celebrates House Building Success
Newcastle City Council is celebrating the success of an innovative new housing delivery model that is just the start of a new era of council house building in the city. With a changing age profile, Newcastle’s older population is projected to grow significantly, and with ambitious plans to meet the...

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