Lender shares interest with Peru
A co-operative lending society based in the North East has been spreading its influence all over the globe, with its latest success story taking place in the jungles of Peru.
Shared Interest, a Newcastle-based lender which works with fair trade businesses across the world, has secured finance for a coffee-growing collective in northwest Peru called Aprocassi.
The Aprocassi collective wanted to use their land for a more environmentally-friendly purpose such as coffee farming, instead of the region’s traditional gold and silver mining.
2.Feb.10 | Business
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Priory to open Darlington facility
The Priory, best known for providing celebrities with help to overcome their addictions, is to run its first North East facility. The Priory Group is expected to take ownership of Middleton…
18.Jan.10 | Voluntary and Community
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Ian aims high for charity
A North East businessman is facing his biggest challenge yet this month with an expedition to climb Kilimanjaro. Ian Robinson, of timber importers and agents Gill and Robinson in Newcastle upon…
15.Jan.10 | Voluntary and Community
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Charity launch ‘most ambitious scheme to date’
Tyneside Cyrenians has launched £3.3m worth of contracts in ‘it’s most ambitious scheme to date’. The two new construction contracts, a refurbishment of an emergency access building and a ground-breaking substance…
24.Dec.09 | Voluntary and Community
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Charity given helping hand from Companies in the region
A Charity has received hundreds of gifts from companies in the run up to Christmas. The latest donation, from Proctor & Gamble, gave Metro Radio and Magic 1152’s charity Cash for…
22.Dec.09 | Voluntary and Community
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UK still generous in recession
Britons remain committed to giving money to charity despite the recession, a new report has claimed. Three-quarters of people who had donated money to charity during the past three years said…
18.Dec.09 | Voluntary and Community
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Village to get champion help
A village in Northumberland is set to receive the help of a prominent professional to help develop business proposals aimed at rejuvenating the local community. Allendale has been paired with a…
17.Dec.09 | Voluntary and Community
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Volunteers are on the right track this Christmas
A North East volunteer programme is going from strength to strength over the festive season. The project, called Culture Track, has recently celebrated a milestone, received a string of awards and…
17.Dec.09 | Voluntary and Community
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Consumers demand a fair cuppa
North East Fairtrade charity Traidcraft has revealed that two thirds of UK tea drinkers want their cuppa to be ethically sourced. 66% of UK tea consumers buy Fairtrade or would be…
15.Dec.09 | Voluntary and Community
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Future bleak for North East charities
The North East’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities are set to lose out as charities struggle to cope with the ongoing recession, says a report out today. Voluntary organisations find demand…
10.Dec.09 | Voluntary and Community
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Durham community is all ears thanks to grant
A new community radio station is celebrating the success of its first month on air, broadcasting local news and views to listeners across South West Durham. Community radio station Bishop FM,…
4.Dec.09 | Voluntary and Community
