28th, March 2025

Meet High Tide Members

News and PR

The High Tide Foundation have an incredible support system from local businesses on Teesside and we’ve been making these partnerships official. The businesses that support High Tide help deliver programmes to young people across Tees Valley, both in-school and in the workplace.

Better

Better Brand are a strategic brand agency, making brands around the world more distinctive, meaningful and effective.

Their name, Better, reflects their commitment to improvment and stems form their belief that best is the enemy of better. Best can be slow and complacent, but better is agile and open-minded. While best stands still, better gets things done.

The team at Better have supported The High Tide Foundation for many years through sending staff to deliver in school career workshops as well as welcoming students into their Middlesbrough based offices for exciting work experience.

Tees Business

Resolution Media and Publishing have had huge success and in particular their Tees Business Magazine that is solely dedicated to talking up business in the Tees region, Tees Business exists to build, foster and inspire a vibrant and supportive business community in the Tees region.

Tees Business supports businesses and organisations across the region through their leading range of publications and events.

Published in print and digital formats, Tees Business is the voice of business in our region. Published quarterly and purely focused on the local business community, the combined print and digital readership of Tees Business magazine exceeds 20,000 – with the print version personally delivered to the region’s business leaders.

The team at Tees Business are looking forward to delivering career workshops in the local secondary schools and welcoming students to their offices to provide meaningful work experience for the future workforce of Teesside.

A&N Safety Consultants Limited is a leading Health & Safety Consultancy based in the North East of England, proudly led by two dedicated female directors actively involved in NAWIC Tees Valley.

As an ISO 45001:2015 accredited company, they are committed to upholding the highest standards of occupational health and safety management, ensuring compliance, safety, and excellence in every project they support.

A&N Safety Consultants are new members to The High Tide Foundation, and are very excited to work with the young people we support. Director, Andrea Nicholls, has already set a date to welcome a group of students from Laurence Jacksons School into the business to gain a behind the scenes insight to their industry.

Calm Digital

Based in the North East of England, Calm Digital continue to work with amazing clients across the UK and internationally. They collaboratively work with businesses to define and develop digital products and solutions that can set their brands apart.

Calm Digital has been around for more than 20 years and have a vast catalogue of work to demonstrated their expertise, if there is a software solution to be found, they will find it!

With technical knowledge and experience, Calm Digital support medium and large multinational corporations, impressive brands, and innovative funded tech start-ups that need support and advice.

Calm Digital are a new member to The High Tide Foundation, they have already showed their commitment to supporting young people across Teesside with an upcoming site visit. Students will visit their office, based in the heart of Middlesbrough’s thriving digital hub to explore their business and meet the fantastic team behind the scenes.

 

 

 

 

33,500

Students supported since 2012
with life-changing industry-led work experience programmes and enrichment events

28,000

Hours of engagement with employers
connecting students directly with people in various job roles for real-life career experiences

750

Business members involved
from a range of sectors who co-designed and delivered our industry-led career programmes

"“This has been so educational, not only for the students but also the teachers; I had no idea of what really went on down here. This is great knowledge that I can take back with me and share with the other colleagues and students.”"

Teacher, Middlesbrough

""It was very informative and was definitely worth every minute. The speakers and staff were very kind and helped us all build a better understanding of the world of engineering. This was an insight I doubt I could have gotten anywhere else.""

Year 7 Student, Redcar

"“I am grateful for the help and life changing experience High Tide have gave me and believe that I wouldn’t have got this chance anywhere else. I believe that without high tide I would have never received or had an opportunity to gain valuable experience and knowledge”"

Year 6 Student, Middlesbrough

"“My experience with High Tide provided me with amazing opportunities and allowed me to meet very influential people who have helped me to gain confidence as well as skills I will take with me for the rest of my life.""

Year 6 Student, Middlesbrough

"Start to finish there was loads of enthusiasm from the employees and the students! Really fun to be a part of this!"

Age 17, 5-day VWEX (Engineering)

"I enjoyed the work experience, I learnt new skills on how to write my CV and what employers look for."

Age 13, Discovery day (Employability)

Our Corporate Partners

Elite Consult
Casper Shipping
Jacksons Law Firm
PD Ports