News

Thu 2 Aug

New resources for community buildings and assets

Several new resources have been launched to support communities with acquiring and managing community assets and buildings. Read more.....

Wed 30 May

All Our Stories - New Heritage Lottery Fund grant scheme

Funding for community organisations to explore, share and celebrate the heritage of their communities

Tue 28 Feb

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Neighbourhood Challenge: Learning from Innovative Communities.

This paper presents observations, drawing on evidence from the people that are funding, delivering and supporting these 17 projects testing out innovative ways of building co-operation, collaboration and action within their communities. The paper identifies both the common features of their approach and what is distinctive about how they apply their methods. It also maps their activities against a process of change to illustrate how their approaches are enabling community-led activities and solutions to develop.

Mon 7 Nov

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Byker Primary School Animation Project

A Year 5 Animation project begins this week with Byker Primary School as part of the Byker Lives project.

Fri 22 Jul

Making the Most of Community Led Planning

Practical guidance has been published to help local authorities make the most of Community Led Planning (CLP)

Mon 6 Jun

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Make Your Mark Project: Scotswood

Find out more about our project in Scotswood...

Mon 23 May

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Are you a retired architect or built environment professional?

We are looking to see if there might be interest in establishing a group for retired architects and built environment professionals to support the work of Northern Architecture and to carry out your own community and engagement projects?

Mon 2 May

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Heritage Lottery Fund supports Northern Architecture Byker Estate project

Find out more about our newest project in the Byker Estate.

Tue 19 Apr

Giant turbine plan welcomed by community

PLANS for a wind turbine larger than The Angel of the North in size have been welcomed by a community.

Tue 12 Apr

North Tyneside and Northumberland awarded two of 17 National Neighbourhood planning vanguards

The Government has unveiled the names of 17 communities that will form the 'vanguard' of its neighbourhood planning policies. Two are in the North east, Allendale in Northumberland and Fish Quay in North Tyneside.