Over 4,000 club runners and fun runners took part in this year’s Sunderland 10k and Half Marathon. The event, which is now in its eighth year, took place on Sunday 13 May in Keel Square. Chris Lines, an organiser at the event, said: “We’ve definitely got a record field in the […]
Newcastle Startup Week, dubbed the UK’s biggest start-up event, is set to take place during May 15 to 19 to help entrepreneur start-ups. The five-day programme will include 50 inspirational talks, presentations and social events with each day having its own theme. Overall the event is expected to attract up […]
The multi-award winning international photography and film project is coming to the North East in an upcoming exhibition. It will include photographs of local dancers in front of iconic North East landmarks. Film-maker and photographer Jevan Chowdhury has brought his Moving Cities project to the North East in collaboration with […]
The fourth annual #TimeToTalk awareness day has been held in order to raise mental health awareness, gaining big support by many in the North East. The campaign, run by the charity Time to Change, aimed to encourage people to talk about mental health in order to end the stigma surrounding […]
Many families enjoyed the eventful range of fun activities last Saturday (April 30) as Active Sunderland held their annual ‘BIG family fun run’ in Mowbray Park. To kick off the event, sporting activities were set up such as mini golf, yoga, swing ball, football and hula-hooping which were enjoyed from […]
Local businesses gathered their stock onto stalls on Sunday March 13th at the first Try Sunderland 1st business fair in order to promote their products. Stall owners included Vixs Trinkets, a handmade jewellery store, Just Fuse It, who specialise in handmade items, Super Geek Stuff, a retailer of all things geeky, Grans […]
It has been announced that the NHS will be putting an extra £1billion a year into mental health services by 2020. The pledge came after Jeremy Hunt explained that the government need to provide extra money in order for the NHS to cope with demands on services such as mental […]