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Education Business Connections has a Board of Management which includes strong representation from the public and private sector including local entrpreneurs - ensuring we can feed what skills major employers need in their current and future workforce.

A key partner for EBC, especially with media-based projects is the Colliery Chronicle which offers services such as advertising, print and web design and training. For information please click on the logo to the right.

The organisation receives funding, support, advice and guidance from a variety of local, national and international sources:

For more details about an organisation please click on the appropriate logo to visit their website.

Also important to the success of Education Business Connections is the extensive ‘in kind’ support it receives from scores of businesses across the region, and the partnerships it has forged with those businesses. The list of supporters is too long to reproduce in full, and is growing all the time.

Among those who support the work of Education Business Connections in schools are:

• Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited
• Nike (UK) Limited
• TRW Automotive Inc
• Barclays
• Gleeson Construction Services Limited
• T Mobile
• The Army
• Northumbria Police
• Asda
• The Health and Safety Executive
• Teams Roofing Limited
• Entrepreneurial balloonolgist and entertainer Ian Lowe

As well as individual companies, Education Business Connections also works with organisations representing different sectors of the commercial world - either geographic or industry specific. These include the ConstructionSkills (formerly CITB).

EBC in the news

Government network news - Port of Tyne Authority - BIC - Regional Language Network - Sunderland City Council - Equality North East Awards