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Kickstart Scheme – supporting a young person into work
Kickstart is a new Government initiative that provides funding to employers to create 6-month job placements for 16-24 year olds on Universal Credit. Additional funding is available to employers to ensure the young person is fully supported and leaves the scheme...
Housing Repair Works Opportunities
Wednesday 14 October, 6pm - YouTube event North Tyneside Council have some exciting opportunities to deliver housing repair work on the council's behalf, with contracts aimed at local businesses both large and small. A virtual event on October 14 will explain the...
Community Gets Splash of Colour to Banish Lockdown Blues
A North Tyneside Business Forum member has decided to splash out to help a Howdon charity - but it’s not with money, it’s with paint. Tynemouth Decorators Ltd in partnership with Newcastle based decorating centres (Johnstones, Brewers and Dulux) are delighted to host...
What finance is available?
As the UK adjusts to ‘the new normal’, businesses up and down the country are flexing their muscles, feeling out the pain points and readying themselves for striving towards recovery. To support our businesses in North Tyneside, we’ve done some digging around to find...
Netwalking for nautical charity
Businesses and volunteers socially distanced themselves and “net walked” along the North Tyneside coastline to raise much needed funds for a nautical charity. Members of the Northumbria Unit of the Maritime Volunteer Service (MVS) took part in their annual sponsored...
The “Rule of Six” – what does it mean for your business?
We know changes to laws and limits on numbers able to gather indoors and outdoors can cause a lot of uncertainty for business and we appreciate that some of the the information we pass on isn’t always what some businesses want to hear. We appreciate how frustrating...
Local Outbreak Management Letter to Businesses
FAO: All business operators in North Tyneside Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for all the work that you have done so far in North Tyneside during the coronavirus pandemic – as North Tyneside Council’s Director of Public Health, I know how challenging it has been across...
Restarting Business: Pavement Licences
Many businesses like have successfully reopened and everyone is working hard to do this safely and help prevent the spread of coronavirus. We just wanted to ensure that you are aware of the Government requirement that you must apply for a temporary pavement licence if...
Mandatory face coverings in shops
Dear shop owner, Many of our shops have successfully reopened and everyone has worked really hard to do this safely and help prevent the spread of coronavirus. I just wanted to make sure you are aware that it is mandatory for customers to wear face coverings, in shops...
Tender Opportunity: Business Recovery Programme
Could your business supply consultancy support to North Tyneside-based businesses as part of the Covid recovery? On behalf of North Tyneside Council's Business Recovery Programme, Tedco LTD are appointing a number of consultants to deliver fully funded support to our...