Powering Potential: Sofia delivers workshop for local college students in collaboration with Talent Foundry
Teacher training programme closes with celebration event.
Middlesbrough College student Maisy Marcuzzi's work experience at onshore converter station site helps lead to apprenticeship offer from Sofia supplie...
Through the Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council's Building our Future primary schools programme the Sofia team has engaged with more than 400 Teess...
Champions for Wind enters is third year supporting teachers to integrate offshore wind opportunities into their curriculums.
Westgarth Primary Year 5s tasked with a project to create ways to keep offshore wind turbines free from seabird droppings, a real-life industry issue...
Around 50 Teesside Engineering students develop innovative ways to inspect blades
Week of activities for Teesside primary students, young people from under-served communities, University students and secondary teachers.
Sofia supports The Talent Foundry's Powering Potential programme for 16 to 18 year olds in the Tees Valley
Sofia helped 60 Year 5 students become wind farm experts for the day during the school's STEAM Week.
Five sessions at Outwood Academy Bydales reach the whole school during 'offshore wind week'.
Sofia's education support team along with project team members participated in 65 events at schools, colleges and universities over 2022, engaging wit...
Plenty of interest from students in offshore wind careers at this first careers event for 2023
Almost 600 students took part in the day-long event attended by students from Years 7 through to 11.
Sofia's education team asked students to build towers and blades, and compete in an international energy market to give a taste of real world experien...
Reverse format gives special needs students the opportunity to showcase their aspirations to employers.
Meeting students at an engineering focus day held as part of the university's two-week long initiative.
Sofia engages local primaries as part of Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council’s Building our Future education programme.
Sofia is once again represented at this key Newcastle University student careers event.
Offering professional advice to future engineers as they consider which direction to take post-university.
Hands-on turbine experiment and virtual reality visit to wind farm give hundreds of North East students a taste of offshore wind.
Elsa Lamb, recent graduate from the University of Plymouth joins the Sofia consents team on a 12-month placement.
More than 1600 teenagers took part in the NCS 22 Enterprise Challenge posed by Sofia: to devise a campaign to encourage more women to enter the offsho...
Teesside University student tackles real-world offshore wind industry cable issue.
Outwood Academy Bydales use 'Love where you Live' as the theme to decorate the hoardings at Sofia's construction compound.
Masters students tackle real-world offshore wind construction challenge for their dissertations.
Sofia and its contractors are helping young people gain vital on-site experience as part of the T-Level programme.
Redcar's Errington Primary students get a hands-on lesson in offshore wind planning from Sofia
A virtual renewables challenge for around 20 geography students from the UK and Germany
Masters student Harry Stuart joined Sofia's onshore team for a two week on-site experience
Teesside University students rise to the blade challenge
Almost 400 primary students attended two back-to-back assemblies to hear all about Sofia, a project happening on their doorstep.
Five new teachers join Sofia's Champions for Wind careers programme with kick-off visit to the onshore converter station site.
Working with our suppliers and local business networks to help ensure young people are prepared and inspired for their future careers.
Students from across the region log-in to visit the virtual event and learn about their options for the future
Sofia has held a series of continuous professional development sessions for teachers to ensure the best use of the primary school education resources...
As the closest school to the Sofia landfall site, its a natural fit for the project team to work with Outwood Academy Bydales to ensure students are a...
The Sofia team has been on the road during the last half of 2021, visiting Teesside primary and secondary schools as well as Universities to get stude...
Meet structural engineer Amit Dey in this interview where he talks about being an engineer on a major offshore wind project. Part of a Tees Valley Com...
Recent Plymouth University graduate Jordan O'Neill joins the Sofia consents team as the onshore works pick up pace and the project heads towards offsh...
The Sofia team took part in Newcastle University's annual careers event to highlight the myriad careers in offshore wind energy.
Pairing up with Jones Bros for a careers fair in Redcar broadened the attendees awareness of the type of jobs in offshore wind, and the fact they are...
By partnering with multi-academy trust Tees Valley Education, Sofia has facilitated the education of primary students about offshore wind and its many...
History students from Outwood Academy Bydales were invited to get a glimpse of their local area’s past with a visit to an archaeology dig right next d...
The Sofia team met with students, jobseekers and people looking for new careers at the annual Jobs Fair, highlighting routes in the offshore wind sect...
More than 330 students at Redcar's Lakes Primary School have a virtual session on the big screen from Sofia's STEM team.
This year's annual Tees Valley Careers event for local schools and colleges was held online and the Sofia team was present to answer student queries a...
Sofia gave Teesside University engineering students an insight into working with offshore wind at a virtual event.
Five Redcar teachers have become 'offshore wind champions', working with Sofia to develop curriculum materials that will teach their students about of...
Sofia has partnered with the Tees Valley Education Trust to create resources and run teacher workshops for 20 local primary schools to highlight the o...
Two Teesside University graduates completed online internships with Sofia during the pandemic, both looking at the topic of CO2 payback time for offsh...
Sofia took part in the virtual Youth Climate Summit, a five-day livestream festival with more than 160 sessions aimed at inspiring young people to tak...
Sofia welcomes our first graduate intern to the project team. Working within consents, and with a focus on environmental issues, Phoebe Meredith will...
Video now live on Tees Valley Combined Authority careers website, aiming to inspire young people into offshore wind career pathways.
Through UK STEM, Sofia was the basis for a successful work experience trial during lockdown. A possible model for future engagement between schools an...
Sofia is working with Teesside University to offer two final year students the opportunity for a summer placement with the wind farm team
Teesside University and Sofia Offshore Wind Farm have signed an agreement setting out how we will work together to build local skills and capabilities...
Sofia and our sister project Triton Knoll were able to give students a virtual visit to a wind farm when we attended the Tees Valley Skills & STEM...
Sofia’s Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Andy Barwise ran an offshore wind workshop for Year 12 students as part of Teesside University’s STEMulate 12...
Teesside University student Dan Kidd has been awarded the RWE Sofia Offshore Wind Farm scholarship, for his Masters degree in Sustainable Energy and C...
73 students challenged to innovate new solutions for wind turbine maintenance
Sofia delivers hands-on science exhibition for hundreds of Tees Valley pupils.
Sofia team joins Skelton Castle Cricket Club for a day of maintenance and hands-on volunteering.
Team building with a purpose for Sofia with regular beach clean up days near the project's landfall in Redcar, to support wellbeing and the environmen...
Introducing Sofia at the Port of Blyth to give existing port tenants the opportunity to find out more about the project.
Packed full of heart-warming drawings on the theme 'I am thankful for...' the 34th edition is out now.
Sofia was again a Strategic Partner for the flagship Offshore Wind North East event, held over two days at Sunderland's Beacon of Light.
Hull event attracted around 200 attendees and included at least 35 one-to-ones for selected suppliers.
Event hosted by Tees Engineering Network updates around 200 delegates on the status of the project and upcoming opportunities.
This year's theme "The future is bright" inspired local primary school children to create a calendar full of colourful and optimistic artwork.
Sofia was once again Strategic Event Partner for the NOF/Energi Coast annual North East supplier event, Offshore Wind North East.
Whitby Lobster Hatchery and Marine Research Centre set to boost local marine ecology, conservation and education.
Almost 800 attend the first in a series of supply chain webinars managed by NOF / Energi Coast to find out about Sofia contracting opportunities.
This highly attended online event managed by NOF / Energi Coast previewed the opportunities with Sofia's Tier 1 suppliers and outlined the project's s...
Sofia was one of the industrial partners sponsoring a month in the coming year's Teesside Community Calendar, produced by Sembcorp with artwork by loc...
For the third year running Sofia was a strategic partner with NOF Energy for the annual flagship offshore wind event, Offshore Wind North East 2020. E...
Sofia was well represented at Global Offshore Wind 2020, with a dedicated Supply Chain session and two Event Industry Champions.
Taking part in Teesside Tech Talk 2020 webinar, engineers heard from Project Director David Few about Sofia as one of two large scale net zero project...
Sofia Offshore Wind Farm is an active member of Energi Coast, the North East of England’s offshore wind cluster.
More than 700 people attended the 2019 Offshore Wind North East event in Newcastle, making it NOF and Energi Coast’s biggest and most successful confe...
Sofia’s Foundation Installation Package Manager was a key speaker at a sold-out engineering supply chain business breakfast held by the Tees Engineeri...
We joined Energi Coast at their stand at the British Forces Resettlement Services National Employment and Careers Fair in Catterick, North Yorkshire
Joining with sister project Triton Knoll, Sofia team members attended the Grimsby Renewables Partnership Conference in early 2019
Sofia was Platinum Sponsor of Offshore Wind North East 2018, the North East’s premier annual offshore wind event
Ithica is a boutique film production company, taking on interesting stories, dynamic projects and filmmaking with intent.
Marketing and communications agency based in Teesside supporting on community and stakeholder events and milestone celebrations.
Teesside-based access solutions company provides industrial roof services for Sofia's onshore converter station valve hall.
Local family-run coffee shop chain provides catering services for the project's onsite events, meetings and celebrations.
Local North Yorkshire firm carries out the connection design, fabrication and assembly of the onshore converter station steel frames.
Local archaeology firm recording and analysing findings along Sofia's onshore cable route prior to construction. Helping enrich local historical knowl...
Providing regular inspections of the Sofia onshore converter station site using high specification drones, based in Teesside.
Saltburn-based photographer employed to document the progress of Sofia's onshore construction work on-site in Teesside.
Working with Sofia to ensure safe and efficient traffic & transport management throughout the project's onshore construction activity in Teesside.
Teesside-based small-batch craft distiller that helped Sofia to celebrate a major project milestone during the pandemic.
North East based health and safety consultancy supporting Sofia during the project's construction.
Fastflow Group (subsidiary of United Living Infrastructure Services) carried out major water mains diversion work as part of the preparatory works at...
The Works designed the Sofia logo and brand, all our communications collateral and this website, which included the industry-leading supplier portal.
Nortech Solutions Limited (NTS) is a privately owned, Teesside-based engineering services company serving local, national, and international clients.
North East family-owned vessel specialists enabling Sofia's offshore site investigation works from its Teesside base.
North East-based consultancy supporting Sofia with fisheries liaison and associated marine consultancy services.
UK-based fisheries and aquaculture consultancy, helping Sofia reach agreements with those in the commercial fisheries sector potentially impacted by t...
UK environmental specialists working with Sofia on all aspects of marine mammal monitoring and mitigation
Undertaking environmental studies and providing technical support for Sofia's onshore cable route from a North East base
UK-based, global experience, providing the shipping and navigation perspective to Sofia at each stage of its lifecycle.
UK-based marine ecological consultancy employing a team of marine scientists providing specialist advice and analytical services to Sofia.
The global offshore geoscience and geotechnical engineering consultancy supporting Sofia in the North East.
The UK’s leading provider of archaeological and heritage services providing retained archaeology services for Sofia's marine elements.
Providing ornithological monitoring options for each phase of Sofia's lifecycle.
Funding a free mini countryside festival called Nature comes to Grangetown to encourage community engagement with local green spaces and a closer conn...
New flooring is being installed at the Marske Centre following the award of a significant grant from the RWE Sofia Offshore Wind Farm’s Construction F...
Helping combat isolation and issues caused by poverty through the provision of a place to go and social support.
Cycling sessions for pre-schoolers to coincide with the Women’s Cycling Tour and National Championships
Through Lets Pedal, local people who face health barriers will be able to get involved and celebrate the British Cycling National Championships local...
Helping to fund a 2.5 kilometre illuminated circular running route along the coast between Redcar and Markse to support community fitness and well-bei...
Providing funds to enable volunteers improve and maintain the Normanby Wildlife Garden, ensuring it is a green space for the local community.
Sofia will fund specialists to upgrade the cemetery entrance and ensure a welcoming first impression for visitors.
Supporting Youth Shack, a programme to help young people post-pandemic, particularly around mental health, well-being, confidence and employability sk...
Community workshops using litter creatively, culminating in a lantern parade to encourage active care for the local environment.
Increasing the charity's wide volunteer bureau and encouraging young people with autism to take part.
Funding a Wilder Coast Project Officer to deliver activities for local communities, helping them discover the wildlife of the shore habitats, coastal...
Enhancing the heritage building's communal garden to make it more accessible for use by residents and visitors.
Reintroducing participants to the horses, new volunteers and other adjustments at the riding centre as a result of the pandemic.
Using the new community garden to bring local people together after Covid lockdowns, creating a forum for support and issues resolution.
A new kissing gate will make the countryside surrounding Yearby village more accessible to all, while the fund is also helping to create supportive lo...
Supporting a regular weekly drop-in event at the new community facility for residents to reconnect and meet new people, and particularly to help comba...
Involving the community in a national initiative to create an impressive bamboo structure as a focal point of Festival of Thrift 2021.
Helping to encourage local residents to take up new healthy activities by improving the range of sporting equipment on offer at the community centre.
Creating a bespoke outdoor mobile sensory garden for students with learning difficulties for safe, assisted exploration with the senses.
Building the population of barn owls and protecting them for future generations.
Walking football at Marske United giving people the opportunity for social interactions, combatting loneliness and boosting mental and physical health...
