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May 12, 2020

Business & Economy

Β£550,000 fund to support coalfield communities

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust – the organisation dedicated to supporting the 5.7 million people living in former mining communities throughout the UK – has opened a new Coalfields COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Fund in the North East. Acting as an…

April 5, 2022

Business & Economy

Empowering North East communities through adaptable research

Durham University Business School works with the wider university and other partners to deliver local regeneration projects through knowledge exchange. Here, Dr Ladan Cockshut discusses the School’s involvement with Creative Fuse North East and The Auckland Project. www.durham.ac.uk/business @DUBusSchool During…

August 13, 2019

Business & Economy

University of Sunderland pledges support to startups by partnering with regional competition

Regional startup competition, the If We Can You Can (IWCYC) Challenge, has announced that it will once again collaborate with the University of Sunderland for the fifth consecutive year. Joining the list of North East companies also backing the Challenge…

November 23, 2022

Business & Economy

Tees Valley hosts UK’s biggest skills competition

Bright spark students and apprentices from across the country took over Teesside to go for gold in a prestigious skills competition that could help their careers take off. Middlesbrough College was chosen as one of seven host destinations for WorldSkills…

April 5, 2022

Business & Economy

Strategic move sees Karol Marketing acquire Fusion PR Creative

Leading North East PR and communications agency Karol Marketing has announced the acquisition of Fusion PR Creative. The move will drive forward a vision to offer the very highest level of strategic communications, marketing, digital, public affairs and public…

July 8, 2020

Business & Economy

Local heroes target national network

Innovative sport service GiveToLocal is broadening its reach across the UK as it continues to add key corporates and governing bodies to a growing community network. The North Tyneside-based organisation is on a mission to generate an additional Β£10m per…

April 5, 2022

Business & Economy

On the cover: Opportuni knocks

After more than a decade unearthing contracts for businesses across the UK, Tim Ward and business partner Bill MacGregor are expanding and devising ways to break down barriers

November 2, 2023

Feature

Happily ever Atha

Brothers Jack and Tom Atha have helped transform the skyline of Middlesbrough town centre, with their luxury student accommodation the envy of learners nationwide. But their journey to such heights wasn’t always a lofty success. Having dropped out of higher education to pursue careers in property development – despite having no idea what a Phillips screwdriver was – they began at the very bottom.