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x119035_Inform_p2_rr_x119035_Inform_p2_RR 25/01/2013 15:40 Page 1 FREE February 2013 Issue 46 INSIDE YOUR ISSUE OF THE LEADING SELF DEVELOPMENT, SKILLS & ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE: A DECADE OF ENTERPRISE: We celebrate our first ten years of serving the northeast CLEAR TALENT: Gregory Lee’s role with Northumbria Water THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH: Discover one of the best routes for a career in teaching nelink.info A great new way to help you to help yourself COULD YOU USE £10,000? Discover how Awards for All could make a BIG difference to YOUR community INFORMNORTH 2013 GET YOURREGIONAL FREE WALLPLANNER INSIDE THIS ISSUE Informnorth is the only social enterprise of its kind in the UK, unique to the North East and brought to you with: Helping you to help yourself - through self development, skills and enterprise x119035_Inform_p1_cg:x119035_Inform_p1_cg 24/1/13 15:08 Page 2 Love your job? Better careers with Barchester Healthcare With over 220 care homes across the UK and more in the pipeline, Barchester Healthcare is still growing! Barchester offers a range of secure career opportunities with plenty of room for career development within our own training and development academies. Call 01670 812 333 to find out about vacancies in the North East. www.barchester.com • Care • Nursing • Administration • Maintenance • Catering and hospitality • Housekeeping • Management Apprenticeship Schemes – available in our homes across all disciplines x119035_Inform_p2_ab:x119035_Inform_p2_ab 26/1/13 09:14 Page 3 Visit www.informnorth.comus online at for advertising details, more help, advice and also downloads of all previous issues Contents Editor Miles Crofton T: 0191 5866 010 E: [email protected] Executive editor Please help us protect the environment by Sarah Lee recycling your copy of informnorth - but only after reading it cover to cover, digesting all the E: [email protected] information and then taking the appropriate action first. Staff writers Katie Crofton, Helen Miles, Anthony Keenan, David Hutton SKILLS & EDUCATION Managing Director 7 Mike Storey MONOLOGUE: Informnorth’s managing editor Miles Crofton sets the T: 0191 5866 010 record straight on what makes informnorth so appealing, highlighting how E: [email protected] the time to be more informed about your opportunities couldn’t be better. 18 CELEBRATING SUCCESS: Forget the doom and gloom and join us a we spread Business Engagement & a little bit of sunshine by celebrating our first decade of serving the northeast and Partnership Development raising aspirations with some of the many milestones we’ve achieved along the way. Mark Storey T: 0191 5866 040 CAREERS & EMPLOYMENT E: [email protected] 26 WORKING SHADOWING: Can’t afford to work for free and still need to get Design & production more work experience? Well there may be another way to do it, as we discover. Eric Lee, senior designer 30 CASH IN HAND: Informnorth’s Katie Crofton highlights how handling your E: [email protected] debt by staying at home could open up a far better way to earn extra £££s. Senior researcher 35 MAKING THE DIFFERENCE: Looking to link up with lots of new friends and Michelle Ho contacts that could lead to work? Well nelink.info is the best place to start... E: [email protected] BUSINESS & ENTERPRISE Inserts & subscriptions E: [email protected] 42 POOR DEAL PAYLOANS: Have you reached the end of the month along with the end of your bank balance? Sarah Lee, informnorth’s very own little cream cake, investigates the rise of payday loans and the problems they can lead to. 47 ALL EYES ON ENTERPRISE: We look at the part social enterprise businesses such as John Lewis and informnorth can play in supporting England’s healthcare All contentc informnorth. Informnorth magazine is published sector, with innovative ideas and a stronger role for lots of local communities. bi-monthly by informnorth and informnorth creative services and whilst the publisher has taken reasonable care to ensure that all material is accurate at the time of going to press, they can not accept COMMUNITY MATTERS responsibility for errors or omissions and no liability is accepted for omission or failure from any cause. 56 OFFLOAD YOUR DEBT: Learn the importance of getting your finances in The publisher welcomes contributions but opinions expressed are those of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of order and the benefits of improving those key money-management skills. informnorth. Additional professional advice should be sought before making any commitment to business transactions detailed within 59 SARAH SAYS: Informnorth’s Sarah Lee battles against the odds to highlight informnorth magazine. 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Printed by Potts Print (UK). informnorth February 2013 3 x119035_Inform_p1_cg:x119035_Inform_p1_cg 24/1/13 15:08 Page 4 x119035_Inform_p1_cg:x119035_Inform_p1_cg 24/1/13 15:08 Page 5 Informnorth magazine: monologue With two ambitious LEP’s and twelve great councils, being more informed now is sure to pay dividends Welcome to informnorth, if you haven't The claim to being unique is bandied around seen our magazine before or don't know far too much, but I think in our case it is totally Informnorth exists to help people and has developed in to a publication that is why we do what we do, we wanted to warranted, because we differ from anything eye catching yet quick and easy to use. explain what makes us different, in a that is available or exists anywhere else. A glance through the bright and colourful marketplace where too many things We are the only social enterprise of our kind pages overleaf will show how informnorth can appear to be all too similar. anywhere in the United Kingdom and totally is split in to special colour-coded sections, And if you are new to our region, we hope self funding. We compete for and fight for covering the following topics: this goes some way to highlight that even with what we get and we are consistently able to • The importance of the best education, a lack of funding and public sector cut backs, demonstrate best value to each of our stake- skills, qualifications and up-to-date training why ours is still the best region, with some of holders, partners, advertisers and sponsors. • Employment, work, and job and the careers opportunities that exist locally and regionally the very best people anywhere. Informnorth magazine is designed to help • The importance and the basics of enterprise, We run three social enterprise businesses people at all levels of abilities and champions entrepreneurship, business start up, growth under the banner of informnorth and our the cause for self-development and enterprise. and business survival award-winning and special magazine is It is free at the source of contact and is proof • The value of the voluntary, public and third where our journey first began back in 2002. read for a those with a reading ability of 14+ sectors. Sharing best and worst practice, exploring All of our activities are concerned with raising and throughout our pages, we promote the the benefits and understanding of how society aspirations to help individuals, and young widest range of opportunities available and by being more involved in our communities. people in particular, to make more ‘informed’ drive home the reasons why the northeast is the best place to live and work, or bring up choices about their options and opportunities, promote a new appointment or promotion, a a young family, set up a new business or so they are more ‘informed’ and can take change of address or a college or university enterprise, or to grow an existing one. decisions and their next important steps in open day. Basically, you decide what it is that’s life more easily, whatever they might be. Our publication is structured so you can important to you and send it in and we'll try to quickly discover lots of useful contacts and So everything we do is designed to support include it. Simples. contains information that doesn't exist anywhere these objectives and help people make more But busy PR executives please take note, we else, either within other publications in print, links and connections, whilst supporting our don’t welcome PR pieces that are simply just or online through a single website. partners and businesses of all sizes across the 'doing the rounds'. We have no problem filling northeast of England. All of our content is constantly updated, which our pages with great content and can afford is made possible because each of our valued to be picky - in fact with 15,000 magazines As a social enterprise, informnorth is subscribers, as well as receiving a regular being distributed to local communities and comprised of three main business activities: copy of informnorth magazine, are also given busineses in all parts of the northeast, we Informnorth Magazine - which is the longest their own free business listing, which appears believe we have to be quite choosy. running, consecutively published magazine of in each issue and access to '80 Words for Free'. We are constantly adapting and developing, its kind and distributed every three months, This is our special service that allows you to and if there's anything you would like to see which gives us a great shelf-life and unrivalled share absolutely anything that is important featured in our pages, we would welcome reach and penetration with audiences.