Travelling Home for Christmas | Robson Laidler Christmas Video 2022 - Featuring Building Self-Belief CIO

Wellbeing and the Arts / December 19th, 2022

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!

Benfieldside Community Garden / October 21st, 2024

Duncan Barnett - Volunteer Podcast

Take a listen and discover the origins of our very own community garden. As a district councillor representing Benfieldside in the 1990s, listen to Duncan Barnett's description of the establishment of a community garden in Benfieldside, the very garden that we now call Benfieldside Community Garden.

Aspirations and Future Planning / January 6th, 2025

Business Roundtable Event - Time to put the North East on the Business Map

As a long-standing member of Do Business Network (DBN), I was delighted to be asked to attend the business roundtable discussion with Liz Twist MP for Blaydon and Consett, and Gareth Thomas MP, Minister in the Department for Business and Trade on Monday 9th December at Derwentside College.

Consett Heritage Project / January 30th, 2024

Niamh McDonald - Consett Heritage Podcast

Niamh volunteers with Building Self-Belief as a member of their Youth Panel and is also studying towards a Masters of Planning at Newcastle University. Niamh has been able to support projects run by BSB and add both a professional and personal perspective on a whole host of projects.