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The Go North East team flies its celebrating diversity banner at Northern Pride
The Go North East team flies its celebrating diversity banner at Northern Pride

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Go North East takes Pride in backing northern LGBT festival

The annual Northern Pride festival hit Newcastle this weekend, with thousands of people joining a parade from the Civic Centre.

Proud to be a supporter of the LBGT event, which is one of the largest of its kind in the UK and now in its ninth year, our contribution included sponsoring Pride radio, helping transport passengers in our branded rainbow Quaylink service and participating in the parade.

Joining the festivities on Exhibition Park, which housed a fun fair, stalls and musical performances, were team members Billy Turnbull, Stephen Richardson and many more who proudly raised our ‘Pride in transport, building communities together, celebrating diversity’ banner.

Stephen King, head of marketing and retail at Go North East, said: “We make over 70 million journeys every year, and we want all of our customers to understand how important diversity and inclusion are to us.

“Northern Pride is such a colourful and vibrant event and we love being part of it. Our thanks go to the team who were involved with the planning and attendance to make our contribution so successful.”

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Around 175,000 journeys are made on Go North East bus services every day to travel around this wonderful region. Travelling to work or education, to visit friends and family, to have a night out, or to visit one of the region's many tourist and leisure attractions.

For over 100 years, Go North East has connected the region's towns and villages with the cities of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland and currently operates across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and into Tees Valley.

Employing over 2,000 local people, with a fleet of almost 700 buses and coaches and an annual turnover of £100m, the company is the regional subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group plc, one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport.

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