Nicky Jolley, the founder and managing director of Darlington-based HR2day, is urging the government to make an essential change to the furlough scheme, which she says, leaves many North East businesses vulnerable to making redundancies or even closure. Currently, the…

New NEPIC members, The Big Picture People, have developed an innovative approach to health and safety training and communications. “The Safety Game®” is an interactive learning experience based around a traditional board game, designed to reinforce safe working procedures and…

  As you will be aware, the deadline for submitting a Freeport bid for the Tees Valley region is now three weeks away (5th February). We continue to work closely with PD Ports, the Tees Valley Mayor, TVCA, key stakeholders and…

Businesses are set to benefit from a new £5 million grant funded by Durham County Council to help them implement recovery plans to overcome the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis has had a significant impact on the…

Teesside University’s National Horizons Centre (NHC) has been identified as a preferred bidder as a National Training Centre to deliver cutting-edge training in cell and gene therapy and vaccine manufacturing. The selection of the NHC as a National Training Centre…

2020 drew to a close with a flurry of energy announcements, from a new emissions trading scheme to an energy white paper promising plenty of policies to achieve the ambitious net zero goal by 2050. The Covid19 crisis continues to…

CPI, an independent technology innovation centre and founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult, has today announced the completion of its collaborative project with a leading agriculture company, Syngenta, to develop purification methods for novel crop protection…