Newcastle to host second FinTech North conference
On 14 July, startups, unicorns and giants of financial services will congregate at the iconic
Common Room of the Great North, in Newcastle’s old Mining and Mechanical Engineering Institute, for the city’s second FinTech North annual conference.
The event will bring together a cumulative financial...
Is your youngster a reluctant reader? Despite tempting them with every type of book, do they still only read when they ‘have’ to at school and not for pleasure?
Former primary school teacher Emma Shingleton of education resource experts. PlanBee shares some great tips for the summer holidays.
The long summer...
Employees from Barratt Developments North East donated their time at Newcastle Dog and Cat Shelter this week to help prepare the centre for its reopening.
Five members of staff swapped their desk view for dogs and volunteered their services at the shelter’s rehoming centre in Benton. The team spent the...
A clever invention created by Teesside University graduate Wayne Taylor has been honoured with a top business award from the Queen.
Rehook, a cycling tool designed to reinstate a cycle chain without the mess, has been recognised in the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2022.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are...
A Geordie life-saver born and bred in the West End of Newcastle has proudly achieved a distinction grade in his journey to become a firefighter.
Scott Canham, aged 27, originally from Chapel Park in Newcastle is one of three firefighters who recently accomplished the distinction grading as part of the...
Growing restaurant company 21 Hospitality Group has teamed up with one of the North East’s leading colleges to offer a unique traineeship for aspiring chefs.
Celebrated chef and restaurateur Terry Laybourne has worked closely with Gateshead College to develop a pioneering and innovative programme to create the next generation of...
Dozens of families in Newcastle’s West End are set to get extra help with healthy eating thanks to a new initiative from an award-winning community charity and funding from Newcastle Building Society.
Healthworks is using a £2,980 Society grant to organise a series of eight cookery demonstrations and workshops for...
An academic from Teesside University has been awarded £100,000 to fund essential brain cancer research, which aims to advance diagnosis and treatments.
Dr Sharel Peisan E, a chemistry lecturer from the School of Health & Life Sciences, will examine the nanoscale electrochemistry of brain cancer cells.
Using a multifunctional nanoscale electrochemical...
Naturalist Charles Darwin changed the world through his theory of evolution. If your child is a dinosaur enthusiast or a fossil hunter – or simply curious about their own species – they need to know about his work and discoveries. Former primary school teacher Emma Shingleton of education resource...
Sophie Milliken, the North East entrepreneur behind Moja, a profile-building agency, has joined a brand new taskforce to help UK SMEs tackle the challenges and barriers they’re facing in 2022 and beyond.
The Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA) and Vodafone have teamed up to launch the fully-funded initiative, ‘Disruptive Minds’,...
