We are delighted to share the Mother Tongue Other Tongue e-book, a digital anthology of children and young people’s writing from across the North East.…
The Stephen Spender Prize 2025 poetry translation competition is open for entries by the deadline of 31st July. This is an annual competition to translate…
Our partners at Sanako UK and Newcastle University are offering a free event on 2nd July to secondary languages teachers in the North East. Part…
Thank you to all the children from North East primary schools who took part in the Calligrams Celebration, as part of Express Yourself: North East…
Wow! We are amazed and delighted at the level of participation in Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages this year. 93,798 children and young…
6,669 children and young people from 60 schools across the North East and 10 European countries took part in our Weaving Friendship project, as part…
148 young people from 8 North East schools took part in motivational football themed workshops with Futbol Lingo’s Pierce Kiembi and Jake Butler, on 26th…
British Council hosted a brilliant webinar this week with three people from the North of England who have inspiring language and career journeys. The speakers…
Shout out for German! (17-21 March) has been a week of celebrating German and special opportunities for schools and pupils to access resources, events and…
Declan Baharini, our Chief Executive Officer and Co-ordinator of Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages attended Language World 2025 last week. Language World ran…