The much‑anticipated Middlesbrough Mela 2025, marking the festival’s 35th anniversary, returned in style to Albert Park on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August, as one of the UK’s longest-running multicultural festivals, it drew over 50,000 visitors across the weekend Middlesbrough Council. 

LIKE every community across the world Middlesbrough is currently seeing unbelievable and heroic acts of selflessness.

Friday the 25th of November 2022 saw a prestigious event that stirred hopes and fostered community and good spirit for minorities and marginalised people in the Middlesbrough-Teesside region.

A group of primary schools across Teesside, Hartlepool and County Durham have teamed up with UNISON to acknowledge the fantastic work undertaken by school support staff.