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Newcastle social lender, Shared Interest Society, has been recognised with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category for the third time, as it marks 30 years of financing a fairer world. Just weeks later, the organisation…

It’s not just the day job as Cundall’s managing partner that takes Carole O’Neil across the world. Cundall delivers sustainable engineering and design solutions from those centres of excellence, and is committed to ensuring all its projects are net-zero carbon enabled by 2030, with Carole part of a wide-ranging senior team determined to meet the ambitious target. This year, though, she will also represent England in the Commonwealth Powerlifting Federation Championships, in South Africa. Here, during a break in her preparations, she tells Colin Young how the sport has transformed her life and her career.

Small and medium sized businesses, public sector organisations, and community groups developing low carbon projects across Newcastle, Northumberland, and North Tyneside can now access up to £2m of investment per project through the North of Tyne Combined Authority’s Green New Deal Fund.

Frank Recruitment Group, the global staffing firm focused exclusively on the enterprise software market, has scooped two awards including Growth Company of the Year at the Recruitment International Awards at the prestigious Guildhall in London. The Tyneside firm, which focuses…

Northumbrian Water has revealed its Business Plan 2025-30, which includes commitments to spending billions of pounds on service improvements and creating and supporting thousands of jobs. Chief executive Heidi Mottram explains more.

Startup Awards North East has taken over from The If We Can You Can Challenge to offer a roadmap to success for North East-based startups. FIRST, organisers of Startup Awards North East, are building on solid foundations to offer a…

Innovative out-of-the-home (OOT) advertising firm Smart Outdoor has become the latest North East business to back GiveToLocal’s community sport mission. Smart Outdoor’s screens are synonymous with many of the region’s most iconic landmarks. The Houghton-le-Spring based business manages more than 60…

Colin Young meets Natasha Boulding of Low Carbon Materials, the entrepreneur who is helping transform the way we build.