Newton Press Winners Of Regional North East Business Awards 2019

March 22nd 2019

Newton Press, winners of the County Durham Environmental Awards 2018 in the Greener Business category were delighted to have also won the Heart of the Community category at the Durham, Sunderland & South Tyneside regional heat of the North East Business Awards 2019.

The shortlist for each category consists of just three companies/organisations picked from a list of over 1000 entries, the winner of which was crowned at the Durham, Sunderland & South Tyneside Regional Business Awards heat on Thursday 14th March 2019 at Ramside Hall Hotel.

The prestigious black tie evening hosted a drinks reception with formal proceedings following.

Newton Press was founded by the late Syd Howarth in 1963, it has always been at the forefront of the community it serves not only in providing print and a free weekly community newspaper, but in leading social and environmental projects of benefit, not only to the region, but also national organisations.

The latest in a long line of projects, is instigating and providing the Darlington & Bishop Auckland MRI Scanner Appeal and then giving gifts of posters, leaflets, design work and advertising features.

Newton Press, a family run business, are specialists in the print industry and have been established for over 56 years. The company experienced record sales in 2018 as well as significant growth in the last 18 months and are committed to new technology, investing in the latest world leading Eco-Friendly print machinery allowing planet friendly, exceptional fast printing.

Newton Press have very strong roots with their local community, so much so that the late founder, Syd Howarth, was nicknamed Mr. Newton Aycliffe and went on to be awarded an M.B.E. for all the work he did in the local community, indeed since his very sad passing the local council unanimously decided to name a street in his honour. This hard work and dedication is now carried on through his three sons, Paul, Stuart and Chris as well as all the staff at Newton Press.

This includes being part of the GAMP (Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership), a Local Area Action Partnership board, on behalf of Durham County Council and on the board of directors for Aycliffe Business Park Community along with supporting a very large number of charities, organisations, events and businesses.

Whilst Newton Press are celebrating over 56 years in business and previously winning the Heart of The Community award through Aycliffe Business Park, nominated by the local businesses; it is the future that we look forward to and playing a huge and instrumental supporting role in the local community.

We will continue to achieve this by remaining the go to source for all local news and content, this interaction that we have with our community has been built over many years and we continue to integrate more with the addition of a community radio station, set up by Paul Howarth and run with the help of over 30 local volunteers who are also dedicated and liaise directly with the local community.

Newton Press will now go into the next stage, the North East finals, taking on winners from Northumberland and Teesside regional finals, on Thursday 16th May at Hardwick Hall.

The award was sponsored by Gentoo who were very generous in their praise of the work we do for our community.
And all the time, we remembered the father of the company, Syd, and his guiding passion and enthusiasm for the town and people of Newton Aycliffe.