Go North East has revealed a new poppy bus livery to honour the service and sacrifice of the Armed Forces. The bus operator is also offering free travel on all services for veterans and current members of the Armed Forces on both Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day.
The operator has had a poppy bus on the road for several years but the newly unveiled version was designed in collaboration with
Go North East donated an open top bus to Northern Daughters for a day so the girlband, who already have millions of likes on TikTok, could film their first music video from the top deck.
Northern Daughters, whose six members range from 14 to 17 years old, have built a significant online following with more than 130k followers on TikTok and 10 million likes on their videos. The band, comprising
Two engineers from Go North East have been presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award after dedicating more than a century between them to the company. Billy Cummings and John Jackson have both worked for the bus operator for 52 years. Billy and John received Lifetime Achievement Awards as part of Go North East’s annual Go.B.E. Awards which celebrates colleagues across the business.
Go North East are delighted to announce they will continue as the front-of-shirt sponsor for the Durham Visually Impaired (VI) Cricket Team for a fourth consecutive year.
The team is the county’s only visually impaired cricket team, made up players with partial or total sight loss who compete in ECB competitions and welcome players of any age or experience.
Players use adapted equipment and
Go North East is celebrating after two of the company’s drivers made the top ten at the National Bus Driver of the Year competition, held in Blackpool at the weekend.
The annual National Bus Driver of the Year competition is designed to recognise the skill, professionalism, and customer service excellence of drivers across the country.
Dawid Zochowski took fourth place out of more than 100 d
Go North East has added story prompts to buses across the region, as part of a campaign to reverse the decline in reading for pleasure and boost children’s literacy levels in the North East, where 1 in 5 children aged 5 to 8 don't have a book of their own at home.
The creative story prompts can be found on the back of seats on some of the region’s busiest bus routes and aim to get families and
Go North East has added story prompts to buses across the region, as part of a campaign to reverse the decline in reading for pleasure.
