People
Personalised support through NCE Path. A route built around the person, not the other way around.
Explore people
A FLAGSHIP VISION FOR A PRODUCTIVE HIGH STREET
The rebirth
starts here.
Middlesbrough. A place to make things again—and a place for people to discover what they can become.
FORGE 01 / MIDDLESBROUGHIllustrative concept · Not a secured site
01A building that
NCE FORGE / MIDDLESBROUGH
A building that
makes things again.
Our proposed first flagship brings personalised progression, future skills and productive community spaces together. Not simply a new use for an empty building. A new route into opportunity.
FIVE CONNECTED PILLARS
One place.
Many ways forward.
People are the purpose. Food, energy, making and enterprise are the opportunities to put potential into practice.
Food
Explore a visible growing space that connects practical learning with evidenced local demand.
Explore foodEnergy
Test community-owned generation, storage and smart controls that keep value local.
Explore energyIndustry
Learn through supervised making, CAD, 3D printing, repair and useful real-world projects.
Explore industryEnterprise
Support people to test ideas, build portfolios and explore sustainable small businesses.
Explore enterpriseWHY MIDDLESBROUGH
A new chapter.
Built on local capability.
The proposition starts with three questions: what can empty space become, who should benefit, and what would make it viable?
Reactivate a place
Explore a redundant town-centre building as a public-facing home for learning, making and enterprise.
Open a pathway
Connect residents facing barriers to work with support and practical opportunities shaped around them.
Keep the benefit local
Test a model that supports local suppliers, community participation and responsible reinvestment.
Middlesbrough is the proposed flagship location. No building, council endorsement or delivery partnership is confirmed.
EXPLORE THE VISION
A productive place.
From the inside out.
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Visible opportunity.
A welcoming destination for the next generation of makers, growers and founders.
Potential in practice.
Real projects, human support and evidence of progress.
More than a building.
Explore the energy, enterprise and community systems behind the vision.
Explore community energyAI-generated architectural and participant concepts. These do not depict an operating NCE facility, confirmed design or actual participants.
HUMAN POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY
A path forward.
A place to take it.
NCE Path identifies barriers and shapes a personalised pathway. Forge provides the environment to put it into practice.
Understand
Start with the person.
Explore ambitions, strengths and barriers, including confidence, transport and access.
Personalise
Find a next step that fits.
Combine human support, learning and practical opportunities in an adaptable NCE Path.
Contribute
Make a useful first move.
Voluntary, supported Community Missions create opportunities to participate and build confidence.
Develop
Build something you can show.
Record assessed skills, completed projects and verified achievements in a growing portfolio.
Progress
Choose what comes next.
Explore suitable paid work, further learning, apprenticeships or enterprise. Outcomes are not guaranteed.
THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION STARTS WITH US.
Help write
Middlesbrough’s next chapter.
Bring your local knowledge, a potential site, technical expertise or a funding perspective. Help us test what Forge 01 could become.
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