Industry win for Convention Bureau
The team, who help to attract and secure major national and international conferences and events for the region, beat off strong competition from other top bureaux including Edinburgh, Liverpool, and Manchester. Gold went to Glasgow, who have held the position for the past eleven years, with London winning silver....
Juice Festival’s Mapping the Future project receives funding
Juice Festival – NewcastleGateshead’s festival for families and under 25s – has been awarded £4,500 by The Exchange Collaborative Awards programme to fund an exciting project that brings together young people from the region and academics at Northumbria University in a bid to understand young people’s participation in urban...
Great Exhibition of the North announces Creative Team
Tuesday 14 March 2017 NewcastleGateshead Initiative has today announced the creative team behind the Great Exhibition of the North, which is set to be one of the largest cultural events to take place in England in 2018. Three of the cultural industry’s leading figures are now in place to...
Business Rates – your views
The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) is seeking the views of tourism businesses regarding the impact of the Business Rate re-evaluation. DCMS would like to get as broad and true an impact on the tourism sector as possible, so are inviting businesses to submit any evidence or...
Global travel event ExploreGB comes to NewcastleGateshead in 2018
VisitBritain has announced that its flagship annual travel trade event ExploreGB is to be held in NewcastleGateshead in 2018. ExploreGB is VisitBritain’s largest travel trade event with hundreds of international buyers meeting travel trade suppliers from across the UK to do business. VisitBritain Chief Executive Sally Balcombe said: “We...
International conference success in NewcastleGateshead
Digital construction enthusiasts from all over the world travelled to the North East of England last week for the innovation in technology led show, BIM Show Live. The two day, sell-out event, was attended by over 400 delegates at the newly renovated Grade II* listed Boiler Shop in Newcastle’s...
Business Benefits of Apprenticeships – Future Workforce Planning & The Levy
To address the skills gap, the Government has pledged to create 3 million apprenticeships by 2020. The introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy aims to support this with the intention of putting businesses at the heart of training and allowing them to recruit, develop and build future talent from within their organisation. Invest...
New Year Celebrations
Our New Year’s Eve Winter Carnival Parade once again entertained more than 40,000 spectators, who fell under the enchanting spell of the mystical Baba Yaga as she led her entourage of puppets, street bands and local community groups along Northumberland Street to Newcastle Civic Centre for a spectacular early-evening...
Convention Bureau at Confex
Our Convention Bureau will be shining a spotlight on NewcastleGateshead’s conference and events offering at one of the UK’s leading trade exhibitions, International Confex, from the 1 – 2 March 2017 marking their 15th anniversary at the show. NewcastleGateshead will once again be joined by a range of different...
Investor development support underway
Our Invest Newcastle team, has been working hard over the last few months to build connections and foster an environment of support with foreign owned businesses in the city, thanks to some dedicated funding from DIT (Dept. for International Trade). The programme, which focuses on investor development, seeks to...