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Mental Health Awareness Week – 12 to 18 May 2025

Mental Health Awareness Week – 12 to 18 May 2025

Community is this year's Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) theme, and at NECS we want to celebrate the power and importance of community when supporting our mental health. Through strong community connections, this can remind us that we are not alone and provide us...

NECS success at Workplace Health Celebration Awards

NECS success at Workplace Health Celebration Awards

Laura Edmondston and Kerry Jones from the Organisational Development and Continuous Improvement Team recently attended the County Durham Better Health at Work Awards (BHAWA) event to receive awards on behalf of NECS. The event took place at Glow, in Newton Aycliffe,...

International Women’s Day – 2025

International Women’s Day – 2025

Each year, International Women's Day takes place on the 8th March, and this year's theme is "Accelerate Action". It is all about the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality, and it puts a call out for increased momentum and urgency in...

LGBTQ+ History Month 2025 

LGBTQ+ History Month 2025 

This is the second week, so we thought we'd celebrate the long, rich and diverse history spanning the decades.  The theme this year is 'Activism and Social Change' and with this in mind, we have included some of the most historic moments in LGBTQ+ History below: 1967:...