Welcome to the second installment of GET STARTED, the newsletter that opens you up to new and exciting opportunities here in the North East, with the view of growing your skills, experience and offering a helping hand in getting your career
Do you use Welder/Fabricators? – Help us make sparks fly!
OUR AIM AND HOW WE ARE GOING TO ACHIEVE IT! FLYING SPARKS is a project that’s aim is to support people from in and around Newcastle to make positive steps towards employment whilst taking part in a 16 week long, Level 2 Welding and Fabrication
WE’RE HIRING!
FIRST is a skills provider, on a mission to connect young people, startups and professionals to their wider business community. Celebrating a record year in 2018-19 (doubling turnover and a 39% uplift in profit) FIRST was established in 2014, has 5
Laying the groundwork for a new generation of shiny new college startups
Flaming June! Half way through the year and it's supposed to be our hottest month! Whatever happens to the weather we hope it’s a ‘hot month’ for you and continues to be for the region’s young people wanting to access their first job and the range of
GET STARTED: JULY
The team here at FIRST have hand selected the following opportunities for you in order to grow your network, increase your skills and help you get access to top quality summer work placements and graduate roles! Marketing Executive -
Green for Go! A sustainable startup competition for North East colleges
Young entrepreneurs from across the region are on a mission to find the next generation of North East change makers. Green for Go! Is an inter-college competition that will support level 2 learners to gain valuable business skills, explore how they
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’
The North East has one of the lowest startup rates in the country. To quote leading academic Professor Sharon Mavin: ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’. The If We Can You Can Challenge exists to shine a spotlight on the region’s
First Towers
The growing FIRST team doesn’t usually blow its own trumpet, but because of the difference it’s making to young people’s lives – across all areas of work – it’s time for a bit of a fanfare!As part of our work experience programme with
Delivering real benefits for SMEs
Spring may not have officially sprung, but the FIRST team has certainly jumped to action since the start of the year. Funded through Northumberland College, European Social Fund and the Skills Funding Agency, the temporary work-placement scheme that
Onwards and upwards for a thriving start-up community
2019 has begun! Every new year provides a fresh start, but this year FIRST is building on some strong foundations across its three work areas.2018 witnessed a record-breaking year for the If We Can You Can Challenge as it celebrated its
APRIL: NEWS
The Chronicle & Journal is encouraging us all to #Invest in the North East to make the region a better place to live and work and here at FIRST we’re doing exactly that!The FIRST team were represented at the High Sheriff of North Tyneside's
MARCH: NEWS
March on! #PressforProgress – International Women’s Day will soon be with us!How appropriate then that the female-led First Face to Face Board and team is finding its stride to help ambitious start-up businesses and the North East’s young people