Our partner, QFI, is offering schools the opportunity to apply for the Arabic Afterschool Enrichment Grant programme. This provides support to robust Arabic language programmes…
We were privileged to host the first visit to Newcastle last week of Dr Jennifer Eddy, Associate Professor and Programme Director for World Language Education…
The summary evaluation report for Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages 2025 has been published today. This demonstrates the impact of the Festival, which…
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…
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…