Understand
Start with the person.
Explore ambitions, strengths and barriers, including confidence, transport and access.
NCE PATH IN ACTION
From barriers to
brighter futures.
A highly motivated workforce begins with people who can see a future for themselves. Personalised support meets practical learning, contribution and achievement.
FORGE 01 / MIDDLESBROUGHIllustrative concept · Not a secured site
HUMAN POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY
We start with the person.
NCE Path identifies what is holding someone back, creates a personalised pathway forward, and converts learning, community contribution and real-world achievement into measurable progression.
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.
LEARNING BY DOING
Useful skills.
Something real to show.
Digital & AI
Build digital confidence, practise responsible AI use and create useful content or an ecommerce project.
Growing & food
Explore crop care, food handling, recording observations and the commercial realities of food production.
Making & repair
Practise CAD, supervised 3D printing, fault-finding and repair through tangible projects.
Enterprise
Test an idea, understand costs, talk to customers and learn what a sustainable business requires.
CONFIDENCE IS A BEGINNING. EVIDENCE IS THE NEXT STEP.
Progress you
can explain.
Projects, attendance and assessed competencies can build a useful portfolio. XP and badges can encourage progress, but they are not accredited qualifications.
Built with the right partners
We are seeking training providers to define recognised learning routes, employers to validate skills demand and community organisations to shape accessible support.
Qualifications, placements and job opportunities are not yet agreed.
Help shape the programmeSUPPORT, NOT PRESSURE
A pathway that can adapt.
A choice to participate
Community Missions should be supported and voluntary, with clear roles and appropriate safeguarding.
People alongside technology
AI mentoring is a proposed support tool—not a replacement for safeguarding, specialist advice or human judgement.
Learning is not free labour
Essential production roles require an appropriate staffing model. Training activities must not depend on replacing paid workers.
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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