The Moorside 'Bridging the Gap' Youth Employability & Aspirations Programme

Youth Social Action / Aspirations and Future Planning / July 17th, 2025

The ‘Moorside Bridging the Gap Youth Employability & Aspirations Programme’ was designed to raise the career-based aspirations of young people from Moorside in Consett. The programme allowed the children to explore a wide range of future careers through workshops, interviews, external trips and experiences.This programme was kindly supported by Point North and completed with the brilliant Year 5 and 6 from Moorside Primary Academy.

Youth Social Action / August 14th, 2023

A Greener Future for Stanley

Gardening is one of the best activities to support health and wellbeing, and the love and dedication our Year 9 Eco Ambassadors have shown for their North Durham Academy Community Wellbeing Garden is a classic example of this.

Celebrating Stanley / December 16th, 2025

Digital Inclusion / December 16th, 2025

June's Celebration of Stanley

June has lived in Stanley for 50 years and brought up in a mining village. Listen to her Celebrating Stanley podcast here as she shares her fondest memories of the town.

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / December 10th, 2024

Youth Social Action / December 10th, 2024

Aspirations and Future Planning / December 10th, 2024

The Importance of Vocational Visits to Aid Employability in Young People

At Building Self-Belief, one of the many programmes is the ‘Bridging the Gap’ Youth Employability Programme. Recently, this programme was conducted with year 10 boys from Boldon School. The first few workshops centred around improving wellbeing, and then the boys prepared for their vocational visit by working on goal setting, CV making and considering what makes a good employee.