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Assist Women’s Network:
Reclaiming Hidden Teesside Women
Middlesbrough Central Library
To mark International Women’s Day, Assist Women’s
Network presented an afternoon of talks and poetry
which brought to life three incredibly inspirational yet
overlooked Teesside women – Maragaret Wright,
Naomi Jacob and Maude Mary Chadburn CBE.
The event included input from Jessie Joe Jacobs,
Labour’s Tees Valley mayoral candidate and Sade
Sangowawa, chief executive of Stockton-based
Cultures, while Halo Project’s Yasmin Khan was
appointed Assist goodwill ambassador.
Budget Live 2020
Active Financial, Thornaby
Several businesses gathered for an event to
watch North Yorkshire MP Rishi Sunak’s first
Budget as chancellor.
Attendees also heard from former Stockton
South MP Dr Paul Williams during the event
which was organised by Active Chartered
Financial Planners at their premises on Teesside
Industrial Estate in Thornaby. It was hosted by
Recognition PR’s Graham Robb.
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