Co-working spaces where you can work alongside like-minded people and access specialist support.

START UP Space

Level 1, King's Gate building. Turn up with your laptop or use one of our open-access workstations whenever you need a city-centre base. Perfect for catching up with the START UP team and community.

Floe and TusPark

Grainger Street. Floe offers flexible hot desking, meeting rooms and private office space. Perfect for start-ups aiming to connect and collaborate with other entrepreneurs. TusPark is within the same building and offers similar workspace but also has an in-house ‘maker space’ with technologies such as digital fabrication, 3D printing and laser cutting, giving businesses access to the tools they need for rapid prototyping.

Newcastle Helix

The Core, St James Boulevard. This research and innovation eco-system brings world-class technology researchers, buzzing start-ups and international brands together on one site. Perfect for start-ups with a focus on data science, urban science and life science.

Northern Design Centre

Gateshead Baltic Quarter. Part of Design Network North, the Northern Design Centre offers state-of-the-art audio-visual systems. Perfect for creative and design-led businesses.

PROTO

Gateshead Baltic Quarter. PROTO has many advanced tech facilities including a 3D character capture suite, a film and TV studio, an immersive lab, a motion capture stage, plus sound recording and event space. Perfect for tech and creative businesses that are looking to launch or grow their businesses using cutting-edge technology. 

Join a network or attend a social event for the opportunity to make new connections to drive your idea or business forward.

FIRST

FIRST provide accredited courses, workshops and events to empower students and business founders with skills, confidence and motivation. They also run the annual Startup Awards North East, which is a great opportunity to give yourself and your business some exposure within the region.

Generator Union

Generator Union is a cross-sector membership network that brings together freelancers and founders, students and start-ups and everyone in between. Some of what they offer includes a paid for services.

NetKno

NetKno is a good source of networking events and workshops across the region in a range of sectors, with some online and some in person. Some of what they offer includes a paid for services.

Mussel Club

With over 3,000 members, The Mussel Club is one of the largest networks within the North East business community. They offer regular networking events, which are free to attend.

Sunderland Software City

Sunderland Software City offers a range of business support focused on digital and tech including funded business advice, innovation support, skills programmes and networking events. Their Digital Pathfinders programme helps with digital adoption, their Tech Startup Sunderland programme offers end-to-end support for tech businesses including co-working space, and their ImmexCity programme supports with advancing immersive technologies.

Specialist packages of support to help you accelerate your business plans.

START UP Founderships

START UP Founderships is our annual 6-month business pre-accelerator for ambitious new and recent graduates, designed to give big ideas a big developmental push.

Ignite

Ignite offers a 3-month pre-accelerator for early-stage technology companies that are in development or have only just launched, and a 6-month accelerator for established technology companies that need help with scaling and raising further investment. 

NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator

The NatWest Accelerator supports and empowers UK entrepreneurs with high-growth businesses to scale up with a variety of programmes available depending on what stage you're at.

There are a number of annual start-up events and conferences held in Newcastle.

Thinking Digital

Thinking Digital is a two-day conference held at The Sage, Gateshead, for those curious about technology, ideas and our future. It includes thought-provoking talks and workshops designed to inspire and enlighten.

VentureFest North East

VentureFest is a two-day conference at The Boiler Shop, Newcastle. It is a leading innovation conference designed to help innovators, investors and entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs grow their businesses through connections, inspiring speakers and practical workshops.

Some general sources of support to help you and your business.  

North East Growth Hub

The North East Growth Hub centralises all areas of support in the North, creating a simple go-to guide that puts you in the right direction. This support comes in the form of business support, mentoring, procurement and exporting.

North East Chamber of Commerce

The North East Chamber of Commerce is a large and influential multi-sector business membership organisation. They support businesses seeking to grow in and outside of the region with insights, events and connections.