Whilst the celebrations have drawn to a close for another year, our work with local schools and education schemes will begin once again.

£18,000 will now make its way into education where our company winners will work with their nominated schools to develop STEM projects, and establish ever closer links between industry and academia to ensure our businesses can continue to grow and prosper through the next generation of local talent.

Since the NEPIC Annual Industry awards started 16 years ago, a phenomenal total prize fund of £309,000 has been donated. Seventy-eight local schools have received £192,000 in support of STEM related projects, and the region’s young stars have received £111,000 be.tween them. A further £6,000 has been donated in support of export mentoring.