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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!

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

11 Feb

Access to jobs, training and community support are key to Pandemic recovery say West End charity leaders

Charity leaders in the West End of Newcastle say continuity of services and support has been vital during lockdown and is part of the recovery plan for Newcastle’s West End residents. This is echoed Nationally with a recent UK Poverty 2020 Report and Findings from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation recommended that the UK recovery from […]

3 Feb

Our next Wellbeing, skills, skills & enterprise virtual events made possible through National Lottery funding

Upstart Enterprise is over the moon that we’ve received a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund for our next two virtual Wellbeing, skills, skills & enterprise events in the West End of Newcastle. With this in mind, we host our first event on Wednesday 31st March for residents in Benwell, Scotswood and Elswick areas. […]

3 Feb

Ward Hadaway Law Firm our latest corporate sponsor of enterprise in schools

We’re pleased to announce that Ward Hadaway have come on board as our latest corporate sponsor for a 7 week in-school enterprise challenge in the Spring. The benefits for the children are developing their entrepreneurial skills; boosting confidence, creativity, team working and problem solving. It also gives children, some from disadvantaged backgrounds an insight into […]

24 Jan

Helping people access employment support and jobs – our 2nd virtual jobs, skills and enterprise fair

The latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation report recommends that we need to make sure people can access employment support and retraining to improve earnings and access good jobs. Our latest virtual jobs, skills and enterprise fair on 22nd January did just that. The infographic below speaks for itself and we’re really pleased that a good partnership […]

5 Jan

Fawdon jobs, skills and enterprise fair online on 22nd January 2021

The unemployment rate in the North East has increased to 6.6% and is way above the National average. The Covid-19 pandemic and recent Tier 4 restrictions have pushed many households who were just making ends meet to the very edge. With more families and individuals across our region losing jobs due to the recession and […]

There are lots of ways to get involved with Upstart Enterprise. You could roll up your sleeves to volunteer or take part in one of our skills or enterprise programmes. If you are a business, you could support one of our in-school business enterprise challenges, which offer way more benefits than giving a donation. Please get in touch