Blog

Welcome to our Skill Mill blog where we will keep you informed of what's going on across all our existing sites and our upcoming future plans.

Feb 10, 2016

Teamwork Cuts Wark's Flood Risk

The Environment Agency has teamed up with the social enterprise, The Skill Mill, to clear silt which had built up in a flood channel...

Feb 8, 2016

Village Channel Clearance Reduces Flood Risk

The Environment Agency has joined forces with social enterprise The Skill Mill to carry out work to reduce the risk of flooding in a...

Feb 3, 2016

Launch of Big Spring Clean

Dumped waste was removed from a river and rubbish was cleared from ancient woodland to mark the start of this year’s Big Spring Clean....

Dec 15, 2015

Residents Partner with Social Enterprise to Clean Up Jesmond Gardens

Jesmond Residents Association (JRA) has responded to the concern of messy front gardens in the area by teaming up with The Skill Mill, a...

Nov 29, 2015

AJUJAHT - Brain Hunt!

There is really big buzz about The Skill Mill in Estonia. The idea was entered into a national competition Ajujaht (Brain Hunt) and made...

Nov 20, 2015

Lumsden & Carroll Recognised for 'Going the Extra Mile' with The Skill Mill

The team was awarded the accolade for the company’s work with the Skill Mill – a nonprofit social enterprise company which provides...

Nov 16, 2015

Royal HaskoningDHV backs Leeds Skill Mill

Royal HaskoningDHV is delighted to be supporting the newly created Leeds Skill Mill. In Newcastle (where it all started) to date over 200...

Oct 19, 2015

Garden Tidy Scheme starts in Jesmond

This October marked the start up of an impressive scheme to smarten up the overgrown front gardens in Jesmond’s terraces. Most of the...

Jul 15, 2015

Community Approach Wins Award Recognition

The Skill Mill, in its partnership with Esh Construction, has won a major national award: The Community Project of the Year was announced...

Jun 18, 2015

Skill Mill Director brings home 'Outstanding Paper Award'

At this years Knowledge Cities World Summit and Society for Open Innovation, Technology, Market and Complexity Conference hosted by the...

May 24, 2015

Interview with Davie Parks

What does your social enterprise do? The Skill Mill provides training and employment for young ex-offenders in local environment...

Apr 21, 2015

3rd National Award for The Skill Mill

The Skill Mill is now the holder of 3 National Awards! The 21st April 2015 held the 2015 Water Industry Achievement Awards at the Hilton...

Feb 17, 2015

Skill Mill Celebrate First Year

Thursday 12th February saw The Skill Mill celebrating what has been a great, successful year with many beneficiaries and partners behind...

Feb 13, 2015

'Newcastle young offenders pay back society by environmental graft'

Tony Henderson at the Journal wrote an article on The Skill Mill celebrating its first birthday of project set up to benefit environment...

Feb 12, 2015

Capturing stories from The Skill Mill

We’ve been working with the Skill Mill recently to capture stories about what the Skill Mill means to the young people and project...

Feb 5, 2015

Coproducing Desistance Blog

The Skill Mill has been busy being a guest blogger for Coproducing Desistance. Read it here

Dec 24, 2014

EU Report Sustainable Development ESF 2007-2013

Read the current report on our 'research and links page' This report aims to highlight: - The approach taken to mainstream sustainable...

Dec 14, 2014

Newcastle Social Enterprise Wins Two Awards for children and Young People

Read the article by Northumbrian Water here.

Dec 11, 2014

Make Mine a Double! Innovative Eco Project Wins Two National Awards

Read the article written by Northumbria University here