Scheme details
Area: Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland
Categories: Business support
Business stage: Trading business
Telephone: 0191 716 5085
Contact email: hello@digitalpathfinders.uk
Page last updated: 10 October 2025
Your route to digital success
Digital Pathfinders is a fully-funded programme that helps businesses, charities and social enterprises across County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland to adopt new technology to drive their organisation's productivity and performance to become more successful and resilient.
Available support
Digital Pathfinders can help with:
- Basic digital adoption: Making digital technology easy to implement and manage
- New products and services: Supporting the development of new digital products or services
- Processes and workflows: Improving productivity by automating or digitising work systems
- Digital transformation: Making digital transformation easy to achieve
How it works
Digital Pathfinders offers bespoke support tailored to its clients.
After an initial meeting to understand your organisation, the Digital Pathfinders team will undertake a digital review of your business to identify areas of improvement. This will feed into 12+ hours of one-to-one support to help take your business to the next level.
Is my business eligible?
If the answer to all of the following questions is YES, then you are eligible for the programme:
- Do you have an annual turnover less than £43m?
- Do you have less than 250 employees?
- Is your registered or trading address in Newcastle, Northumberland or North Tyneside?
- Have you accessed less than £300,000 of state aid in the last three years?
- Are you a registered company, CIC or charity?
If you answer NO to any of the questions you can still get in touch - they may still be able to help. Call on 0191 716 5085 or email hello@digitalpathfinders.uk