Newcastle is proud of its rich cultural heritage and is keen to celebrate and demonstrate the incredible diversity of its residents, visitors and students through a new project, ‘Humans of NE1’, an online album of portrait photographs cataloguing the people of Newcastle and their stories. Hosted on NE1’s Get into Newcastle website and NE1’s other social media platforms, visitors will be encouraged to visit the site to review the images and read the stories and individual histories of the people photographed.

Record figures released this week show that January’s NE1 Newcastle Restaurant Week surpassed all previous events and delivered a major boost to business worth over £1/2 million.

Award winning Business Improvement District Company, NE1 Ltd has launched NE1 CAN, a new initiative to create employment opportunities and improve skills and education training for young people aged 16 – 19 in the Tyne and Wear region. By using NE1’s unique contacts and relationships with the city’s business community, NE1 CAN provides direct links between 1,400 business members and young people in the North East.

ONE of the UK’s largest free LGBT festivals will return for the tenth year this summer, thanks to festival sponsor NE1.