Public interest sites and security for the North East of England
Ki-Ki is run from the North East and built around the realities of working here. Councils, contractors, housing providers, NHS trusts, and police forces in the region all generate public interest work that needs solid, boring infrastructure.
This North East hub is for watchdog projects, whistleblower work, local campaigns, and small NGOs based in and around Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham, Teesside, Northumberland, and neighbouring towns. Static builds, Cloudflare hardening, lawful fingerprinting, and evidence grade logging that match regional risk and real budgets.
For the full offer, see Advocacy, campaign, and public interest sites.
Areas covered across the North East
These are the main patches this directory is aimed at. You can add or grow local pages inside the subfolders without rebuilding the whole structure.
Newcastle upon Tyne
City centre and surrounding neighbourhoods, public interest work that touches Newcastle City Council, universities, hospitals, major contractors, and housing providers.
Gateshead
Projects focused on Gateshead Council, the quays, joint Newcastle Gateshead initiatives, and cross river planning and transport issues.
Sunderland and Washington
Work linked to Sunderland City Council, Wearside housing and regeneration, the port, and communities in Washington and the A19 corridor.
North Tyneside
Campaigns around North Tyneside Council, coastal towns, offshore and energy links, and metro linked communities along the coast.
South Tyneside
Issues in Jarrow, Hebburn, South Shields, and surrounding areas, including river and port activity and local authority decisions.
County Durham and Consett
County wide work involving Durham County Council, former coalfield communities, small towns such as Consett, and rural villages that often feel overlooked.
Teesside and Middlesbrough
Public interest work across Middlesbrough, Stockton on Tees, Redcar, Hartlepool, and the wider Tees Valley, including heavy industry, regeneration, and policing of protest.
Northumberland
Rural and coastal public interest work across Northumberland, from market towns and tourist hotspots to cross border issues near Scotland.
Border and neighbouring areas
Projects on the edges of the region that still lean on North East institutions, for example parts of North Yorkshire, Cumbria, or the Scottish Borders that rely on services to the east.
You can keep each subfolder as a simple landing page for now, then grow specific case studies and timelines later without changing the URL structure.
What I help North East projects with
Most regional work falls into a handful of patterns, whether the issue sits with a council, a contractor, or a grant funded programme.
- Secure static sites for watchdog, scrutiny, and journalistic projects that expect institutional interest. See Secure static sites.
- Whistleblower safe infrastructure, including PGP based contact routes and conservative promises to disclosers. See Whistleblower safe sites.
- Bot mitigation and abuse aware Cloudflare rules for campaigns and community movements. See Bot mitigation for public interest sites.
- Evidence grade logging and lawful fingerprinting that can show monitoring and patterns from institutional networks. See Evidence grade logging and Fingerprinting and Edge Tracker.
- Basic DNS, email, and SPF DKIM DMARC sanity so referrals, FOI replies, and complaint correspondence actually arrive.
Examples of North East style projects
- Sites that publish and organise FOI disclosures about regional funding, contracts, or awards.
- Community watchdogs tracking a specific charity, contractor, or regeneration scheme over time.
- Peer led groups documenting local patterns in policing, housing, health access, or social security decisions.
- Small NGOs and support projects that need something safer than a generic agency WordPress build.
The technical story is kept as simple as possible so you can explain it to journalists, MPs, regulators, or courts without hand waving.
Postcode areas covered
Ki-Ki work is remote first, but it helps search and people if the geography is spelled out clearly.
Typical postcode areas covered include:
- NE postcodes across Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, parts of Northumberland, and Washington.
- SR postcodes around Sunderland and Seaham.
- DH postcodes across County Durham, including Durham City and Consett.
- TS postcodes across Teesside and the Tees Valley, including Middlesbrough, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, and Redcar.
- DL areas that interact with Durham and Tees Valley projects.
- TD and CA border areas where North East institutions still feature in the story.
If your organisation or project sits outside these postcodes but deals heavily with North East institutions, it can still fit within this cluster for search and navigation purposes.
Start a North East conversation
Set out which part of the North East you are working in, who or what you are looking at, and what currently feels fragile about your site, email, or security. I will tell you plainly what is worth fixing now and what can wait.