Travelling Home for Christmas | Robson Laidler Christmas Video 2022- Featuring Building Self-Belief
The Building Self-belief team were delighted to be invited to take part in the Robson Laidler Christmas video, which this year is a parody of Chris Rea’s 'Driving Home for Christmas' video, with a sustainability theme. We performed along with the County Durham Community Foundation and Oases Housing.Robson Laidler has a carbon reduction strategy to halve all CO2 emissions by 2030 and cut emissions to zero before 2050. Living sustainably is one of the key aims of Building Self-Belief and we wholeheartedly support them in their endeavour.Please enjoy the video, and feel free to share it!
Exercise, Health and Nutrition / September 10th, 2024
Congratulations Hugo - GNR 2024!
Once again our fabulous Chair, Dr Hugo Minney has completed the Great North Run on our behalf. The Great North Run is a spectacular event for the whole region and it is so brilliant to see so many people running on behalf of so many charities.
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 / June 30th, 2026
Wellbeing and the Arts / June 30th, 2026
Stargate Pit Disaster, Crookhill Primary School / June 30th, 2026
'My Empty Heart'
This project was created to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the 1826 Stargate Pit Disaster near Ryton, Gateshead. In this poem, 15-year-old James Robson, this poem reflects on the hopes, dreams, and lost childhoods of the young boys who worked and died in the Stargate Pit Disaster.