21 Feb

Empowering Women: Kenton Skills and Wellbeing Group Elevates Passion Project into a Business, Pledging Percentage of Profits to Newcastle Dog and Cat Shelter

Empowering Women: Kenton Skills and Wellbeing Group Elevates Passion Project into a Business, Pledging Percentage of Profits to Newcastle Dog and Cat Shelter                                                       Left to right: Christopher Bray […]

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10 Dec

Naughty Christmas decorations for sale

      Upstart Enterprise CIC Crafty Queens have been busy selling these cheeky clay Christmas decorations which have been created with love, laughter and tears over the last few weeks.     All funds raised go back into activities and materials for our women’s enterprise in disguise group in Kenton. You can buy online […]

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21 Nov

Donations for Lego – Christ Church Primary School

Thanks to the kind people for their donations so far to our Lego appeal for this Christmas. There are 18 children in the class at Christ Church Primary in Shieldfield and it would be really nice to give them all a Lego gift again this Christmas. Some of the children last year were from asylum […]

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27 Mar

Upstart Enterprise’s Impact report 2022

2021-2022 was all about growth and doing even more to give individual support to more service users in our community. We grew our business start-up programmes, giving harder to reach adults a chance to explore and for some to launch their businesses. We know that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ and the need for additional […]

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13 Mar

Upstart Enterprise and Pendower Good Neighour Project win Home Group’s First Strawberry Soup

Our Vicki from Upstart and Ruth Taylor from Pendower Good Neighbour project are in the picture with Mark Henderson from Home Group One Strawberry Lane where we won their first Strawberry Soup pitching event on 1st March 2023. ‘Strawberry Soup’ is Home Group’s version of Detroit Soup. This was based on the idea that communities come […]

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6 Jan

New for 2023 – Skills Cafes in Kenton, Fawdon & West Gosforth

Thanks to recent Council Ward funding from Kenton and Fawdon/West Gosforth wards, Upstart Enterprise is running a weekly skills cafe for people looking for help with improving their CV, job applications, looking into the next steps for a new career or volunteering locally. The first skills cafe starts in Kenton on Thursday 26th January. Please […]

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13 Dec

Upstart award winners for achievement 2022

One thing we’ve learned at Upstart Enterprise is that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ when it comes to supporting business owners at the start of their business journey’s. CLLD and Lottery funding enabled us to reach harder to reach people across Newcastle and deliver hands-on, personal support in their own communities. 65% of the start-ups […]

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18 Oct

Final Start-up and Jump-Start courses of the year in Kenton in November 2022

The final two Start-up and Jump-Start courses start in November. Please contact vicki@upstartenterprise.com or call 07872 618895 for more information and to book.

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18 Oct

Kenton Cresent Hut community event 25th October 2022

Upstart Enterprise is pleased to announce that we’re organising a community event at Kenton Crescent Hut on 25th October. Come and join us and tell us what you want to see at Kenton Crescent Hut – from what skills people need help with to group activities. Big thanks to Michael Offord Optometrist Bidfood UK Tesco […]

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24 Aug

Women’s empowerment group – Byker starts back in September

Our Women’s empowerment group at St Vincent’s in Byker starts back up on Friday’s in September with sessions on 9th, 16th and 30th of September. In July we were upcycling canvases for a few weeks and the group decided they wanted to sell these canvases to raise funds for more day trips for the women […]

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