Find out more on this page about how we developed Our Newcastle Our World – our vision, guiding principles, partnership approach and the ambitions of children and young people in the city, as well as our three interconnected workstrands: Newcastle City of Languages, Connecting Internationally. For a summary of our goals, activities and impact, read our brochure Empowering Newcastle’s Youth for a Global Future.
Our vision
Our vision is as a multicultural, inclusive city, which embraces people from across the world and values diversity. We seek to generate opportunities and build skills for the future workforce and for our children and young people and diverse communities. We also share our knowledge and expertise and seek to make a positive difference on local and global issues, supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Our principles
Our principles reflect our vision and underpin all our activities. We seek to ensure that people’s voices are heard and that we understand the needs of our city and our role in brokering support and opportunities to meet those needs. Equity, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our approach. We welcome partnership approaches to add value and generate impact across each of our priority workstrands.
Our partnership approach
We work with local, regional and national partners, groups and organisations, as well as international partners across a wide range of sectors and communities to maximise the impact of activities across our three workstrands and help make a positive difference to the lives of people in the city.
Our priority theme
Children and young people (0-30) were chosen as the priority for support under our three workstrands, as we believe we can generate the most impact for their future education and career choices. Our three interconnected workstrands all contribute to the goal of them becoming confident, global citizens, with access to opportunities.
Our children and young people’s ambitions
Through our stakeholder consultations with children and young people and those who work with them in all settings, we found out their priorities for internationalism, which inform all our activities.
Our activities
We facilitate, broker, develop and inform people in Newcastle about activities across our three interconnected and complementary workstrands:
Connecting internationally
We broker international links and connections to increase access to experience, engagement and opportunities, especially for children and young people from disadvantaged and underrepresented groups, who would otherwise not have access to these.
Newcastle City of Languages
We support language teaching, learning and take up in Newcastle schools, to develop access to opportunities for future lives and careers. We also facilitate and promote activities celebrating languages, diverse cultures and our connections to the world.
Internationalism in the City
We support activities to increase intercultural awareness and engagement, promote social cohesion, inclusion and the celebration of cultural diversity in the city. We also share opportunities and support for underrepresented groups.