
Member Spotlight – Sandra Thompson SCT Therapy (With You in Mind)
SCT Therapy – What Services Are Offered? I’m excited to be in the member’s spotlight for NTBF and share my business story with you. Where to start? I’m Sandra Thompson, and for most of my career, I worked as a Civil Servant in HR

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – Nicholson’s Butchers celebrates more than a century
We’re incredibly lucky to have some amazing, long-standing businesses in our membership, and even luckier to have two of the oldest businesses in North Tyneside represented on our management team too. The second of two celebratory blogs Kathryn Nicholson’s. When Kathryn Meadows took

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – more than 70 years in business for NBT Group
We couldn’t let the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee slip past uncelebrated here at the North Tyneside Business Forum. So we’ve been chatting to two of our member businesses who have been in business for just as long as, if not longer than, the Queen has graced

BASH Academy diversifies to beat Covid
When the pandemic struck in 2020, Tara Warren’s business was affected just like so many others in the beauty and hospitality industry. With salon closures and too many restrictions to make business viable, Tara had to diversify or lose her business. She tells us how

Double award is more than a pipedream
When lockdown 2020 scuppered Brian Kerrigan’s plans for a couple of months off work he changed his focus to start his award-winning business a few months early. We chatted to him to find out how he started a business in lockdown, how winning two awards
Putting the art in heart – Happy Planet Creative
Faced with challenges and tragedy in the past, local artist and businesswoman Gail Curry explains how her business went from small steps to award-winning in a few short years. Tell us more about your business My name is Gail Curry and I own and