Major new investments across our area is leading to massive investment in skills and education so that we make sure local people, our communities and future generations have the opportunity and skills to get one of the amazing jobs that are here now! 💪 As many of you will know, TTE is a well loved technical training provider which was a spin off from ICI and British Steel many years ago. Recently it moved into Middlesbrough College Group in 2020, who have been doing an incredible job investing
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Major new investments across our area is leading to massive investment in skills and education so that we make sure local people, our communities and future generations have the opportunity and skills to get one of the amazing jobs that are here now! 💪 As many of you will know, TTE is a well loved technical training provider which was a spin off from ICI and British Steel many years ago. Recently it moved into Middlesbrough College Group in 2020, who have been doing an incredible job investing
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Building a brighter future for our children 💪 Badger Hill Primary School in Brotton, part of the Northern Education Trust, is incredible. They’re officially in the top 1% of schools in the country and are 9th in the country for reading (out of more than 22,000 schools!). 👩‍🏫 It was amazing to present their awards and talk to them about the amazing opportunities that are arriving in our region and the children also heard from AngloAmerican and SSE who are building the Dogger Bank wind farm. 💨
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Building a brighter future for our children 💪 Badger Hill Primary School in Brotton, part of the Northern Education Trust, is incredible. They’re officially in the top 1% of schools in the country and are 9th in the country for reading (out of more than 22,000 schools!). 👩‍🏫 It was amazing to present their awards and talk to them about the amazing opportunities that are arriving in our region and the children also heard from AngloAmerican and SSE who are building the Dogger Bank wind farm. 💨
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💼 Trainees get paid. No cost to the business. What’s not to like? Our Youth Guarantee Trailblazer programme is giving 18–21-year-olds who aren’t in education, employment or training the chance to get high-quality paid placements and work tasters - helping them get a foot in the door and start building a career. 🚀 We’ve secured up to £5million for this programme - with £3million specifically for paid placements - so there’s no cost to businesses taking part. This is a golden opportunity: For yo
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💼 Trainees get paid. No cost to the business. What’s not to like? Our Youth Guarantee Trailblazer programme is giving 18–21-year-olds who aren’t in education, employment or training the chance to get high-quality paid placements and work tasters - helping them get a foot in the door and start building a career. 🚀 We’ve secured up to £5million for this programme - with £3million specifically for paid placements - so there’s no cost to businesses taking part. This is a golden opportunity: For yo
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👨‍🎨 NORTHERN SCHOOL OF ART - LETS GET BUILDING! 🎨 It is great that we have been able to provide £14.5m for this vitally important project for the school, which is hugely important to the whole of the Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool, with its reputation as a national centre for excellence in the art, design and creative sectors. As part of my plan for jobs – creating good quality local jobs for local people across Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool – we need to make sure our young people
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👨‍🎨 NORTHERN SCHOOL OF ART - LETS GET BUILDING! 🎨 It is great that we have been able to provide £14.5m for this vitally important project for the school, which is hugely important to the whole of the Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool, with its reputation as a national centre for excellence in the art, design and creative sectors. As part of my plan for jobs – creating good quality local jobs for local people across Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool – we need to make sure our young people
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Apprenticeships play a key role in creating the strong local workforce we need here in Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool 💪 It's great to have WSP, who've helped us deliver huge projects like SeAH Wind's offshore wind turbine monopile facility on Teesworks, leading that charge 👊 Former apprentice Ben is now thriving in his role, managing a portfolio of over £40million. 👉 This is why we're working hard to bring investment to Teesside - to create more good-quality opportunities for our young p
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Apprenticeships play a key role in creating the strong local workforce we need here in Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool 💪 It's great to have WSP, who've helped us deliver huge projects like SeAH Wind's offshore wind turbine monopile facility on Teesworks, leading that charge 👊 Former apprentice Ben is now thriving in his role, managing a portfolio of over £40million. 👉 This is why we're working hard to bring investment to Teesside - to create more good-quality opportunities for our young p
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This is exactly what our Youth Guarantee Trailblazer is all about - helping our young people build skills, find new opportunities, and get stuck into the world of work 🚀 🙌 A huge well done to the team at Cleveland Fire Brigade for giving a group of local young people the chance to learn real skills and get a taste a role in the Fire Service | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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This is exactly what our Youth Guarantee Trailblazer is all about - helping our young people build skills, find new opportunities, and get stuck into the world of work 🚀 🙌 A huge well done to the team at Cleveland Fire Brigade for giving a group of local young people the chance to learn real skills and get a taste a role in the Fire Service | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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💼 From Apprentice to Full-Time Success - Lewis' Story! 🎉 Meet Lewis, one of our fantastic local apprentices who’s just smashed his Business Administration Apprenticeship with distinctions across the board! 🌟 Starting at just 16, Lewis grabbed the opportunity to earn, learn, and get real experience at Tees Valley Combined Authority. Now, he’s landed a full-time role in the marketing team, proving the incredible value of apprenticeships as a launchpad for success! 🚀 👏 Huge congratulations, Le
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💼 From Apprentice to Full-Time Success - Lewis' Story! 🎉 Meet Lewis, one of our fantastic local apprentices who’s just smashed his Business Administration Apprenticeship with distinctions across the board! 🌟 Starting at just 16, Lewis grabbed the opportunity to earn, learn, and get real experience at Tees Valley Combined Authority. Now, he’s landed a full-time role in the marketing team, proving the incredible value of apprenticeships as a launchpad for success! 🚀 👏 Huge congratulations, Le
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📢 Your Voice Needed to Shape Skills Training in Teesside, Darlington, and Hartlepool! 🛠️ I'm calling on local businesses to help shape the future of training in our region. With industries in clean energy and digital growing fast, it’s vital that our training programmes meet the needs of both employers and workers. 💻⚡ That's why I want to hear from YOU, our local businesses to help us make sure our workforce is equipped to take advantage of the thousands of new opportunities we're delivering
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🤝 Meet Eva, Grace, Harley, Tessa-Lilli, Tristan and Jake - some of our first trainees who are starting the Industry Scholarship scheme 👏 This £1m programme will fund 141 local young people to get the right skills to move into well-paid jobs in the industries of future coming to Teesside. I've always been clear that every pound of new investment coming to our region must be for the benefit of local people, so I'm pleased to be supporting new talent to access new jobs coming to Teesside, Darling
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Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has held his first of a new series of in-person question time sessions 🗣️❓ Members of the public attended Yarm School’s Princess Alexandra auditorium to quiz the Mayor on topics covering the local bus network, developments at Teesworks, plans for autonomous trams and how to regenerate Middlesbrough town centre 🛍️🚌 The Mayor will be hosting further events across the five Tees Valley boroughs where you can ask your questions. Keep an eye out for further dates and v
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Planet Normal: Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen on Reform and the future of the Tory Party | Podcast
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WTFC Episode 7 – Ben Houchen on Net Zero, Nissan, and the future of the Tories
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🛫 Your Exciting New Career Could Take Off at Teesside! We’ve teamed up with Hartlepool College and Airbourne Colours to launch a brilliant new Aircraft Painting Trainee Programme, giving local people the skills they need to start great careers in aviation. 👩‍🎨 After initial training at Hartlepool College, trainees will get hands-on experience at Airbourne’s impressive new facility at Teesside Airport - leading to internationally recognised certification and fantastic long-term job opportuniti
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Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink. Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube. | Private Eye Magazine
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After reading the Eye's special report on how Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen’s flagship “levelling up” project became a taxpayer-funded scandal, a reader writes... Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube. | Private Eye Magazine
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🎙️ This morning I was in the hot seat on BBC Tees’ Mayor’s Question Time and was asked about plans for a new AI Data Centre at Teesworks. A project of this scale would create thousands of long-term jobs, attract more investment, deliver greater future-proof growth than any alternative, and will put our region at the heart of the next industrial revolution in AI and tech. 👇 Here’s what it would mean for Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool. | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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💙 Hannah popped into the office today for high-level talks. Agenda points included much needed investment in Teesside, the revenue certainty mechanism for SAF, the double subsidisation of green hydrogen and concluded in us drawings planes. A productive discussion, and I look forward to continuing to work with Hannah in the weeks and months ahead 🤝 | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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🎙 On today’s Mayoral Question Time on BBC Radio Tees, I was asked about crime and anti-social behaviour in Middlesbrough Town Centre, and how we can restore local pride and confidence in the high street. I’ve pledged £1.5m to bring in new Town Guards - properly vetted, with real powers, working alongside Cleveland Police to make a real difference to the Town Centre 👮‍♂ And let me be clear: local businesses won’t foot the bill for this. When I became Mayor, I made a commitment that I would neve
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🤝 Today I joined X-Energy and Centrica to discuss local jobs and using local firms as they develop the UK's first small modular reactors right here in Hartlepool. Their commitment to Hartlepool is an enormous vote of confidence in the skills and expertise of our local workforce 🔧🙌 It also shows that our region’s rich history and decades of experience in nuclear make it the best place in the country to develop new nuclear like this 👊 I’ve always been clear that every pound of new investment m
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The Health Secretary has agreed to meet with Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen to discuss the future of North Tees Hospital 🏥 | BBC Tees
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15 letters, ZERO reply. The Health Secretary confirmed on BBC Radio Tees last month that he’d be happy to meet me to discuss my plans to rebuild North Tees Hospital, so we wrote to him again. That’s now fifteen times in total I’ve written to him, and still nothing. This isn’t good enough for local patients and NHS staff who have to put up with a hospital that’s not fit for purpose. We’re cracking on locally anyway, working with the NHS and the Integrated Care Board to keep plans moving. I’ll kee
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🚨 PLANS FOR GRESHAM GET THE GREEN LIGHT 🚨 Planning permission has officially been granted for the £200million transformation of Gresham – a huge step forward for Middlesbrough! 🏗️ This isn’t just a facelift. It’s one of the biggest investments in the town centre in a generation – delivering: 🏨 A brand-new hotel 🏘️ 240 top-quality build-to-rent homes 👩‍🎓 Student accommodation for 400 young people It’ll create jobs, support our brilliant local businesses, and help drive Middlesbrough’s grow
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✈️ One word to describe our airport Did you use our airport this summer? Describe your experience in one word... 👀 | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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🗣️ Fantastic comments from Dr Jackie Mulligan, Director of Game Republic, on BBC Tees recently talking up the massive opportunities in games development and tech that exist right here in Teesside 🙌 Last week, Riverside Stadium hosted some of the biggest names in gaming for Game Republic: New Horizons, a brand new national conference 🕹️ Events like this are an invaluable opportunity to bring industry leaders to Teesside to help them see the outstanding local talent and game-changing projects w
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🌍 From Setback to Success: How Tees Valley Labs Helped Carl Go Global 🧱 After nearly 30 years in bricklaying, Carl Harris’s life was turned upside down when a wall collapsed on site, leaving him with life-changing injuries. But out of that came The Brick Bud - a unique wall-bracing system that can withstand winds of up to 73mph and stop other bricklayers facing the same ordeal. Carl says joining Tees Valley Labs was the “turning point”: “Without them, there may well not be a Harris Brick Safet
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Green light for our £1billion transport plan🚦 After Rishi Sunak announced this money in late 2023, we got on with the job of developing plans to revolutionise our transport system. When Labour won the election all this was put on pause and we were stopped in our tracks. Finally, over 18 months after Rishi first gave us the money, the Labour Government has now unpaused the money confirmed the funding we were given back in 2023. This is the right decision. It means we can get on and deliver the v
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Christmas is on its way! Lovely Christmas fair at Yarm School with Hannah the elf helping to decorate the tree and visiting Santa’s Grotto! 🎄 When does that Christmas feeling start for you? | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor
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🛠️ MEET DALE – BUILDING A CAREER WITH SeAH WIND 💪 Fantastic to hear from Dale Cliff, a 23-year-old apprentice from Stockton, who's training in fabrication and welding at Hartlepool College, as part of SeAH Wind’s huge £900 million investment in our area. Through our Tees Valley Move Forward programme, Dale got practical support preparing for interviews and building his skills - and now he's on a path to a secure, skilled career right here at home. Over 90% of SeAH's workforce are local, creati
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🚌 Max and Alyssa are Middlesbrough College students who'll benefit from our new £1 single journey price cap which comes into force on June 16th. Making it easier for our young people to get to work, to college or to training opportunities is vital to ensuring they can benefit from new investment coming to our region. The new £1 price cap will apply on services including Stagecoach, Arriva and Go North East on routes across the whole of our region. Promise DELIVERED ✅👊 | Ben Houchen - Tees Vall
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