BOOST is a housing-led employability project supporting social housing tenants in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland, delivered by some of the region’s largest housing providers. The project is delivered until March 2025.
View ProjectEmpower Works supports participants who are autistic and/or neurodivergent, those with learning difficulties and disabilities, and people experiencing mental ill-health to identify and tackle barriers to finding employment. Spanning the Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland area the project aims to encourage those who wish to enter the labour market move closer to employment. The project is delivered until March 2025.
View ProjectNew Start is a supported work placement scheme offering career progression ‘Startup’ roles, giving candidates the opportunity to get a ‘foot in the door’ with jobs they may have never considered or been considered for. The project is delivered across Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland, until March 2025.
View ProjectWorking for Carers supports unpaid carers aged 16+ in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland to enable them to move towards employment, as well as carers who are in work to sustain work and achieve career progression. The project is led by North Tyneside Carers’ Centre with Newcastle Carers and Carers Northumberland as delivery partners. The project is delivered until March 2025.
View ProjectA project providing coordinated employer-led support to match job seekers in Newcastle to employers’ vacancies. The project is led by Newcastle City Council with Building Futures East, JET, Newcastle United Foundation, Prince’s Trust, Reviving the Heart of the West End and Winnovation as delivery partners. The project is delivered until March 2025.
View ProjectOpen Doors: Beyond Barriers will support socially excluded economically inactive and unemployed residents living in the North of the Tyne to remove barriers to employment, build confidence and motivation to work, and progress with basic skills. The project is delivered until March 2025.
View ProjectNorthern Directions engages young people aged 16-24 in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland to progress into the labour market, further education and training. The project is delivered until March 2025.
View ProjectThe Small Grant Programme, managed by Rocket Science, has provided grants to 17 community-based projects to engage and support economically inactive residents across the North of Tyne area. The projects, aimed at fostering community engagement, are uniquely designed to support residents on their path to employment.
View ProjectIn delivering Scaleup North East, RTC North has developed a robust delivery model that will address challenges faced by North of Tyne and Gateshead businesses.
View ProjectBusiness With Purpose aim is to support new Socially Trading Organisations in Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland to start-up and get going as well as established purpose-led organisations to increase their trading income and grow their impact.
View ProjectNewcastle’s Localised Business Support is led by Newcastle City Council. It provide’s delivery pre-start, startup and business growth support to local residents and businesses.
View ProjectThe Business Factory, North Tyneside Council’s business support programme, is here to provide support to anyone or any business, in North Tyneside.
View ProjectThe Rural Asset Multiplier Pilot (RAMP) is a new programme of activity investing in Northumberland’s natural, economic, and cultural assets. The RAMP will work to enhance the environment, grow the rural economy, and improve opportunity and prosperity in communities.
View ProjectThe Business Growth Fund is a £3.5m programme of investment funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund that supports Business growth that supports business growth across the areas of Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council, NTCA and Sunderland City Council.
View ProjectIn-TUNE – Universities working together to deliver innovation and commercialisation support across North of Tyne and County Durham.
View ProjectThis project provides relational mentoring to economically inactive residents who are over the age of 16 and live in the Newcastle and North Tyneside areas, to help them move towards and into employment. The project will deliver until 31 March 2025.
View ProjectSolid Foundations provides support to economically inactive residents living in Northumberland, who are experiencing a range of barriers to employment until 31 March 2025.
View ProjectLed by the North East Autism Society, Progress NE is a project providing specialist employment support to neurodivergent residents across the whole North of Tyne area until 31 March 2025.
View ProjectLocal Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) are a new way of prioritising nature needs on a focused and local level. Each LNRS will be specific and tailored to its location and will help people to see where action to recover nature would be most effective.
View ProjectNTCA is working with Blake Clough Consulting Ltd, Northern Powergrid, Advance Northumberland and local authorities in the region to assess and identify ways to establish viable grid connections at key development sites.
View ProjectNTCA is funding the £400,000 Green Growth Skills Foresighting Project, in partnership with Newcastle University, Newcastle College, Northumberland College, EPNE and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.
View ProjectNTCA, in partnership with Northumberland County Council and the UK Government Towns Fund, is funding the £13.6m Energy Central Learning Hub. Once completed, the hub will provide a range of state-of-the-art industrial training, education and STEM-related skills facilities.
View ProjectNTCA has funded the ‘Get Zero Get Zellar’ online sustainability platform for businesses operating across all three local authorities.
View ProjectNTCA provides £800,000 as part of the £1.34m Business Energy Saving Team (BEST) project. Delivered by Newcastle City Council between February 2023 – January 2025 on behalf of the whole North of Tyne region, BEST is supporting SMEs and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, thereby increasing business resilience and adaptive capacity to achieve net zero targets and support economic growth.
View ProjectWorking as a key delivery partner of the North East and Yorkshire Net Zero Hub, NTCA is supporting the delivery of the LEAD in the North East. The LEAD programme is funding projects piloting new approaches to provide in-person energy advice across the North East between Summer 2023 and March 2025.
View ProjectIn 2021, NTCA commissioned the Energy Savings Trust, in partnership with Accelar and Frontier Economics, to develop a robust evidence base to inform the business case for a large-scale housing retrofit programme.
View ProjectNTCA is delivering the £2.3m North East Energy for Growth Accelerator Programme in partnership with local authorities across the North East to accelerate low carbon energy projects.
View ProjectLocal Area Energy Planning is a process designed to deliver local action to reaching net zero green gas emission targets, comprising technical evidence on the whole energy system, non-technical factors and engagement with stakeholders and communities
View ProjectNTCA and all 3 constituent Local Authorities declared a climate emergency in 2019. The Combined Authority is therefore working to become a Net Zero organisation.
View ProjectEnergi Coast’s mission is to champion the offshore wind sector and promote the strengths of the North East England supply chain.
View ProjectThe North of Tyne Cabinet agreed a £25m of investment into Offshore Renewables until 2028, as part of the Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change Blueprint.
View ProjectNTCA is focused upon championing and enabling the growth of heat networks and geothermal energy projects in the region. Currently, the North East has a pipeline of heat network projects valued at over £500m and possesses nationally leading projects.
View ProjectNTCA is focused upon supporting the development of battery research and manufacturing activity in the region.
View ProjectNTCA is working with the existing Energy Central partnership, comprised of Advance Northumberland, Port of Blyth, Northumberland County Council and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult to identify innovation and growth opportunities for businesses.
View ProjectA supply chain programme designed to boost supply chain growth and productivity in the North of Tyne and wider North East England region’s offshore wind and subsea sectors.
View ProjectNTCA have worked with Ashden to create a new way of developing policies to deliver climate action and powerful community benefits, focusing upon the day-to-day needs of local people in the region.
View ProjectNTCA leads the delivery of the North East Energy Catalyst a partnership which is aiming to establish an integrated energy system, providing a productive, clean economy for communities across the globe.
View ProjectNTCA is a partner of the North East and Yorkshire Net Zero Hub, one of five Net Zero Hubs across England, funded by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
View ProjectNTCA is a key partner of Net Zero North East England, a collaboration between local government, business, education, the public sector and civil society to drive a comprehensive regional approach to tackling the climate emergency.
View ProjectThe Return to Work Carers Project helps residents who are 16 years old or over and have ongoing caring commitments, and either want to find work or want a change of employment to better suit their caring responsibilities, to access a range of route-ways into local jobs
View ProjectNTCA is investing in the creation of three Community Partnerships with a focus on places with high levels of deprivation, low levels of civic action and an under-resourced VCSE Sector.
View ProjectAs part of the North of Tyne Combined Authority’s (NTCA) knowledge exchange activities, we are piloting an Area of Research Interest (ARI). The aim of the ARI is to connect policymakers, public management and service professionals with researchers, and to support the use of research evidence by NTCA.
View ProjectNTCA is committed to giving every child in our region the opportunity to thrive. That’s why in Summer 2021, NTCA’s Cabinet approved two pilot programmes, the Child Poverty Prevention Pilot and the Education Improvement pilot for the North of Tyne.
View ProjectThe North of Tyne Union Learn project expands the number of union representatives helping low-skilled workers access training, in order to develop their skills and confidence.
View ProjectThe Employment Partnerships project aims to improve co-ordination of employability provision in & across the North of Tyne constituent authorities. Supporting job seekers and employers across the region, and helping move people into sustained, high-quality employment.
View ProjectNorthumberland Small Business Service (NSBS) launched in August 2023. Delivered by Advance Northumberland, NSBS will deliver a new programme of business support to help small and micro businesses across Northumberland to start and grow.
View ProjectThe Digital Innovation and Leadership Project aims to address higher level digital skills needs in Northumberland.
View ProjectGreen skills was identified as priority sector and we are proud to partner with local providers on four exciting Green skills programmes.
View ProjectNTCA has Investment Fund projects to the value of 5 million for specific training for work in the creative, digital and green sectors. These are exciting opportunities for residents to engage with bespoke skills provision in both growth and specialist sectors for the North of Tyne area.
View ProjectNTCA has Investment Fund projects to the value of 5 million for specific training for work in the green, digital, and creative sectors. These are exciting opportunities for residents to engage with bespoke skills provision in both growth and specialist sectors for the North of Tyne area.
View ProjectThe Wellbeing Framework Data Dashboard monitors changes to the wellbeing indicators over time, to help inform local decisions and policy making.
View ProjectNTCA are serious about meaningful co-production and co-design, and we are passionate about the use of lived experience in policy making.
View ProjectThe North of Tyne Combined Authority is committed to working with the VCSE sector as a key contributor to our inclusive economy ambitions.
View ProjectDigital Pathfinders is a free-to-access programme focused on helping businesses and community organisations across the North of Tyne adopt digital technologies to address the challenges they’re facing.
View ProjectVisitors can explore new adventures and immerse themselves in the region’s attraction through bookable packages, tours and experiences.
View ProjectThe North East has a unique blend of history, culture and natural beauty from Newcastle’s vibrant city centre, to Northumberland’s charming market towns and countryside, to the stunning coastline spanning from North Tyneside to the Scottish Borders.
View ProjectThe NTCA has identified and funded three areas in the region to be Cultural and Creative Zones (CCZ); Berwick, central Newcastle and North Shields.
A CCZ is a designated area set up to support people and grow businesses working in the cultural and creative industries, providing a supportive and attractive environment for cultural and creative businesses and people to locate, start-up, grow, and flourish.
View ProjectThe package of support aspires to develop a vibrant screen industry in the North East by integrating various sectors and promoting diversity and inclusiveness. North East Screen works with emerging professionals, home grown filmmakers, production companies and artist filmmakers specialising in film, TV and screen-based arts, to support the growth of the North East screen sector.
View ProjectThe Education Improvement Programme for the North of Tyne is delivered as part NTCA’s Education, Skills and Inclusion portfolio priority and exemplifies a commitment to thinking creatively and progressively about the widest implications of an inclusive economy.
View ProjectCrowdfund North of Tyne gives local people and communities the opportunity to create and fund projects which celebrate and improve our local area.
View ProjectThe Tyne has the innovative minds and forward-thinkers to test, build and power new technologies. It has the skills, the commitment and the pure graft to be a driving force in building a new, zero carbon future. Together, the Tyne’s businesses are powering offshore and energy innovation.
View ProjectThe programme is designed for creative businesses with high-growth potential to become investment ready. Providing high-growth businesses between the seed and scaling stages, with the support and the investment they need to grow their business and turn their innovative creative ideas into the leading creative businesses of the future.
View ProjectGovernment has selected the North East as one of 8 national trial areas to receive a share of the £4 million Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator. It will fund the Future Connectivity Partnership, led by the NTCA to boost vital 4G/5G connectivity in the region.
View ProjectMultiply is a national programme funded from UKSPF and is designed to deliver adult numeracy skills. NTCA’s Multiply programme will focus on three delivery themes: Community Engagement, Family Learning and Numeracy Skills for the Workplace.
View ProjectThe Just Transition Research Project, led by the Energy Democracy Project, has been developed to examine what a just transition means to workers, communities and businesses in our region and identify pathways for socially inclusive decarbonisation.
View ProjectSkills Bootcamps are part of the Government’s National Skills Fund investments helping adults to gain the skills that are sought by employers, so real skills that are needed to gain or advance in a specific employment sector.
NTCA has £9Milion in DfE Skills Bootcamps funding for 2023/24 and have invested in the following sectors: Construction, Culture and Events, Digital, Green Skills, Logistics and Technical.
View ProjectNTCA has invested £10 million to support the growth of the digital sector across the North of Tyne.
View ProjectNTCA and Power to Change launched a strategic partnership with the objective of growing and further developing the social economy in the North of Tyne area, in partnership with local stakeholders.
View ProjectThe Employability and Skills Programme supports an inclusive economy in the North of Tyne area by enabling good quality and locally tailored employment support interventions. This programme ended on 31 December 2023.
View ProjectA combined package of financial and business support designed to grow the creative and cultural industries in the region. Through enhancing business skills, supporting the development of new products and services and enabling businesses to grow, we aim to create a more resilient and sustainable economy for culture and creative freelancers and businesses.
View ProjectThe Green New Deal Fund is a low carbon investment fund established by NTCA and managed by Amber Infrastructure Group.
View ProjectThe Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Small Grants Programme funded 10 experienced organisations across the region to deliver targeted, expert provision for disadvantaged young people not in work and not accessing mainstream employment support. The programme was developed as part of the wider Youth Employment Partnerships.
View Project“I refuse to condemn my sons’ generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing. We are going to take everyone with us as we transition to a new green economy. This means ensuring that all our jobs are fit for the future. We must act now, and in the North of Tyne we have a plan – one that is for people, and for jobs.”
Mayor Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne
The North of Tyne Poverty Truth Commission brings together residents with experience of living in poverty with civic and business representatives to come up with practical changes and solutions.
View ProjectThe North of Tyne is the first combined authority in England to adopt a wellbeing framework to drive a better economy – one focused on growing everyone’s wellbeing.
View ProjectThe Good Work Pledge recognises local employers that are providing people with access to work that’s reliable, pays a decent wage and encourages wellness and development.
View ProjectThe Northumberland Line Economic Corridor spans the North of Tyne’s three Local Authority areas, connecting our people to key innovation and employment assets within Newcastle City Centre, our housing sites and business parks in North Tyneside, and the towns and places and growing ‘green economy’ cluster in South East Northumberland.
View ProjectAre you a business looking to make a first investment in Newcastle, North Tyneside or Northumberland?
We have £10m available to support businesses looking to invest and create jobs and may be able to contribute to up to 10% of your costs.
View ProjectOn the 30 June 2020 NTCA was awarded £24m of Government funding to allow local authorities to target additional investment towards brownfield sites requiring intervention.
This funding will support the delivery of up to 2,500 additional homes in the North of Tyne area on brownfield land by 2025.
View ProjectNorth of Tyne Combined Authority is committed to supporting a dynamic and more inclusive economy that brings together people and opportunities to create vibrant communities and a good quality of life for everyone. Key to this vision is investing in local assets to strengthen communities.
View ProjectNTCA has control of an annual £25 million Adult Education Budget (AEB) devolved to the area from government. AEB is being used to help upskill people into good work and further training.
NTCA currently fund providers to deliver a range of provision targeting employed and unemployed residents to upskill in English, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), digital skills, maths and full Level 2 and Level 3 vocational programmes required for work.
View ProjectNTCA is funding several projects which will prepare young people for the economic opportunities of the future.
View ProjectThe North of Tyne Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change saw 50 citizens in the region come together to discuss how the region can combat climate change.
View ProjectNTCA recognises the importance of children having access to world class environmental education and are exploring ways to support our schools to provide this. Teachers can access and undertake UN accredited online courses on climate change through UN CC:Learn. These courses are free to enrol and provide certificates of completion to learners that obtain a passing grade of 70% or more on completion of the courses.
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