14 Dec

PARTNERSHIPS THAT WORK – SUNNYBANK SECRET GARDEN CHRISTMAS LAUNCH EVENT

Our latest ‘Enterprise in Disguise’ project which uses business enterprise skills for social action has helped develop and launch Sunnybank Secret Garden in Pendower in Benwell. Through a successful partnership working with Pendower Good Neighbour Project we have created a women’s skills and wellbeing group who have been meeting once a week to volunteer in […]

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14 Dec

NEWCASTLE UPSTARTS CREATE BUSINESSES WITH A SOCIAL PURPOSE

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed many households who were just making ends meet to the very edge. Access to good jobs, training and employment opportunities are key to the recovery period, but for some individuals, who are carers, parents or have disabilities themselves this is not always possible. Upstart Enterprise CIC is a social enterprise […]

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29 Oct

Community groups benefit from six figure cash injection

Community organisations from across Newcastle are now able to carry out much needed work thanks to a £100,000 commitment from partners involved in the city’s latest head office development. Seven community groups will receive money and help in kind to deliver projects that until now have been out of reach. The first one to get […]

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6 Sep

BUSINESS START-UP, TRAINING, SKILLS & JOBS EVENT 23RD SEPTEMBER 2021, NEWCASTLE

BUSINESS START-UP, TRAINING, SKILLS & JOBS EVENT Join Upstart Enterprise and other training organisations to help give advice on your new business, find a training course or a new job that’s right for you. Upstart Enterprise will also be recruiting for our fully funded Start-Up programme which starts in October. This is for Newcastle residents […]

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6 Jul

Sunnybank Secret Garden project starts

A massive thank you to all the corporate support so far for the ‘Sunnybank Secret Garden’ project. We got valuable design expertise from One-Environments, a land survey from Three Sixty Group. Then the project was lucky enough to receive support from Home Group. They are building a new head office at One Strawberry Lane (next to […]

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19 May

Gosforth East Middle School help us design our Canny Kids charity challenge programme

We’ve had a great planning session with Gosforth East Middle School Year 7’s who helped formulate and plan their ‘Canny Kids charity challenge’. We had to put one of our advisory team’s reference forward for a funding application. This was a really tough decision as all of them were awesome!    

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10 May

Baker Hughes raise aspirations with enterprise in Walker

We’re at week 2 of the sponsored Baker Hughes / Walker Riverside Academy business enterprise programme. The kids really enjoyed their first session and they are really looking forward to naming their businesses and designing business logos next week. It’s great to feedback to the volunteers team at Baker Hughes who have been providing the […]

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10 May

Ward Hadaway rise to the schools enterprise challenge in Walker

Ward Hadaway have kindly sponsored one of our Year 7 business enterprise challenges at Walker Riverside Academy in Newcastle. We’re at week 3 of the programme and the Ward Hadaway’s team videos have already made a great impression on the children. Their pre-recorded videos are also making great teaching resources like – what’s a SWOT […]

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20 Apr

Upstart Enterprise expands school enterprise challenge in Northumberland

We are delighted to have expanded our schools business enterprise challenge into Northumberland, the first school being New Delaval Primary in Blyth. The children got off to a great start last week thinking about how tech and the environment plays a big part in new business ideas. The children are getting a good insight into […]

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19 Mar

Summer 2021 garden project – can you help?

Another big thank you to One-Environments who have just completed a site visit to our 2nd garden project at Pendower in Benwell this week. They helped us in 2020 with the social distanced pizza garden which now has a pergola. Project number 2 is going to be tougher but we’re up for the challenge and […]

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