NECA has been awarded another Gold; The Equality Standard Gold Award.  This is relevant to organisations of all sizes and from all sectors who wish to visibly demonstrate that they lead the field in their approach to equality and diversity.
The ...

Housing Benefit Reform – the Shared Accommodation Rate
Crisis has provided the attached presentation for advice and guidance regarding changes to Housing Benefit from 1st January 2012 for people under 35 years living in privately rented accommodation.
Please refer to the presentation ...

Sunderland NECA, in partnership with NERAF launched ‘Connected Recovery’ on Monday 14th November 2011.  The day was a huge success and well attended by both clients and partnership agency staff.  Connected Recovery was officially opened by Julie Daneshyar – Deputy ...

NECA has recently attained the Investor in People Gold Award.  This is an extremely prestigious award that places the charity within the top 6% of all nationally recognised Investor in People organisations.
Following the assessment NECA were commended for “excellent examples ...

The Recovery Centre was officially opened on Friday 21st October by the Rt. Hon. David Miliband, MP for South Shields.
The official launch was attended by both clients and representatives from partnership agencies, as well as the local commissioning team, speeches ...

FREE TRAINING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
We are delighted to confirm that courtesy of Sunderland Family Adult Community Learning, NECA Training now have a limited number of funded L2 and L3 Diplomas in Health and Social Care to offer to ...

I am delighted to announce that NECA have been short listed as a finalist for the North East Equality Awards due to take place on 21st October 2011.
The awards, organised by Equality North East, have become a prestigious event ...

The Future of Supported Housing – Consultation Document
The Government is currently proposing big changes to the way Housing Benefit helps people living in Supported Housing pay their rent.
We think it is important that everyone has the chance to have a ...

NECA Training has recently undergone a further visit from OFSTED, which we are delighted to say went extremely well.  The report is particularly complimentary of our success rates, which are higher than the national average in some areas, and they ...

Gateshead Structured Day Care Programme had the opportunity to be involved in an art project with the Unfolding Theatre Company called “Let Me Tell You”.
The aim of the project was to look at client’s lives past, present and future.  Eight ...