Showcasing the Nurture Programme in Tees Valley

Posted: 28/04/2010

Businesses from across Tees Valley gathered at the Wilton Centre today for a breakfast meeting to find out how the Nurture Programme can support their business.

Managed by Northumbria University’s Centre for Design Research (CfDR), the Nurture Programme offers small to medium size businesses, based in the North East of England, access to skills and expertise to develop innovative solutions for the health and wellbeing market.

The aim of the breakfast meeting was to explain how the Nurture Programme can help businesses in the North East, what the application process is to gain this invaluable support as well as showcase some of the companies that have already benefited from this programme.

The Nurture Programme will provide £1.6m of design-led support, funded by One North East and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF 2007-13) over the next 3 years. The programme will offer North East businesses access to an integrated service of multidisciplinary design and development expertise, providing a clear and practical development route from initial research through to the development of full market-ready products and services.

Bruce Watson of Northumbria University’s Centre for Design Research explains: “The aim of this programme is to support North East businesses in growing through the development of innovative and commercially successful health and wellbeing products and services that provide high value to the end user.”

The Nurture Programme is co-funded by One North East, the European Regional Development Fund and Northumbria University.

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