Business Support

Creative & Cultural Skills Apprenticeships Advice

This scheme offers information and guidance on all apprenticeship matters, from Government policy through to the employment and management of apprentices.

Creative and Cultural Skills

Creative Fuse North East

Creative Fuse North East offers several strands of business innovation support, tailored to digital businesses, creative enterprises, artists, freelancers and beyond.

Creative Fuse North East

Creative Fuse North East

Delivered through a truly unique partnership between the North East’s five universities – Newcastle, Durham, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside. Academics will work alongside industry, cultural organisations, ch

Creative Fuse North East

DCO Suppliers - MOD Contracts

MOD-DCO is the official source of UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) contracts.

MOD-DCO

Defence and Security Accelerator

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) finds and funds exploitable innovation to support UK defence and security quickly and effectively, and support UK prosperity. Our vision is for the UK to maintain its strategic advantage

Gov.uk

Degree Apprenticeships

Attract fresh talent and develop graduate-level expertise in your organisation to grow/create your pool of highly skilled employees

Northumbria University

Apprenticeships

Design for Business

Workshops and research methodologies to help business owners design better products and reach new customers.

Design Network North

Scaleup

Digital Catapult

Digital Catapult is the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre. It drives the early adoption of digital technologies to make UK businesses more competitive and productive to grow the country’s econo

Digital Catapult

Digital Catapult Centre North East and Tees Valley

UK's leading advanced digital technology innovation centre, driving early adoption, making UK businesses more competitive and productive.

Sunderland Software City

Digital Manufacturing Programme

Developed and delivered by the Digital Catapult North East Tees Valley (NETV) the Digital Manufacturing programme has been created to support manufacturing organisations to experience, explore and adopt emerging technologies. t

Sunderland Software City

Manufacturing, Technology

Digital Skills Training

"Unlocking Digital Skills for North East Businesses" aims to support the development and upskilling of digital skills to existing workforces across a range of industries, with a particular focus on Manufacturing.  W

University of Sunderland

Digital Technology, Skills

Digital Union

Established over 25 years ago, Generator has grown to be the leading music sector development agency in the UK and the only one to work on developing artistic talent and businesses. Following the mass disruption and digital tra

Digital Union