In an ideal world, Sean Soulsby would make himself redundant. “In charity, you should be trying to do yourself out of the job,” he says, as he explains his role as chief executive of The Children’s Foundation, meaning you’re always looking to fix problems. Sean has been with the charity since 2019, but looks forward …
If you’re someone who reads the news — maybe you even subscribe to a high-quality, regionally-focused online outlet — it’s easy to forget how little of what makes the headlines actually cuts through. To the average person on Stockton High Street on a Saturday afternoon, or at Morpeth Morrisons on a Wednesday evening, their knowledge …
How do you get what you want? You ask for it. It’s time that as a region we got better at that, and doing it in a unified way. This is, afterall, the region which gave the world the phrase ‘Shy Bairns Get Nowt’. We ought to be better at asking for things and making …
Typically there’s not an awful lot of mystery left when it comes to Budget day. However, Jeremy Hunt had a few positive surprises for the North East. Most notably, the Chancellor announced a ‘trailblazer’ devolution deal for the North East, which the official Budget documents say ‘will provide a package of new funding potentially worth …
Next week’s Budget is likely to be the final set piece fiscal event before the next General Election. The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will stand at the Despatch Box after weeks of speculation that he will use what headroom he has to fund tax cuts. At November’s Autumn Statement, Hunt’s big headline was a cut to …
If you’re reading this, then chances are you are more curious and more engaged than most. You’ll have some sense of this being a significant year for the North East. Let’s lay out exactly how it’s significant, and what role there is for all of us as part of it. There’s the expected General Election, …
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