NE1’s Newcastle Restaurant Week celebrated its 5th birthday in style in January with phenomenal results from all 88 participating restaurants and a £400k boost in sales.

NE1’s focus on tackling youth unemployment and providing work-ready young recruits into a wide range of industry sectors has taken another step forward with the expansion of NE1’s Space2 centre for young people in Newcastle.

Tinder meets Time Out in NE1’s free Get into Newcastle App available now and free to download. The App transforms NE1’s hugely successful what’s on and offer led website of the same name, into a fun mobile version on Apple IoS devices.

NE1 Ltd is working with 3 of the city’s top restaurants and Newcastle College to avert an impending skills crisis in the restaurant industry in the North East. Attracting and training new recruits, as well as recruiting highly skilled staff, is a growing problem and one that is likely to be exacerbated this year with the opening of another 26 new restaurants in Newcastle city centre alone.