The complete Freedom of Information disclosure from Newcastle City Council about The Recruitment Junction is now live in a permanent, public-access archive on GitHub.
Full FOI Archive:
https://github.com/ReasonableMedia/the-recruitment-junction-newcastle-city-council-freedom-of-information/
Every document is provided exactly as released by Newcastle City Council, covering programmes such as CLLD, UK Shared Prosperity Fund People & Skills, Work and Thrive, and the Newcastle Fund. Filenames, folder structure and redactions have all been preserved for audit accuracy.
How this links to the £130,272.06 public funding contradiction
Readers of my earlier coverage will already know the core issue: The Recruitment Junction publicly told me that it received no public funding, even though Newcastle City Council’s own payment records confirm:
£134,272.06 paid to The Recruitment Junction.
Key articles:
- The £130,000+ Lie: Beverley Brooks – “CEO” of The Recruitment Junction
- Fact Check: Does The Recruitment Junction Receive Public Funding?
- NCC vs NECA FOI Responses – What Both Bodies Actually Confirmed
Those articles explain the narrative, but this GitHub FOI archive contains the raw paperwork: claims, monitoring forms, invoices, queries, partner emails and small-grant documentation showing how deeply The Recruitment Junction was involved with council-funded activity.
What the FOI archive contains
The repository mirrors the original structure supplied in NCC’s FOI response. A summary of each folder:
- Folder1 – CLLD funding, Q1 claim responses, evaluation documents, outputs guidance and City of Sanctuary Forum correspondence.
- Folder2 – Kickstart placement emails, Newcastle Employment Partnership agendas, supplier verification, invoice updates and early UKSPF scoping.
- Folder3 – UKSPF People & Skills partner engagement, verified participant updates, funding workstreams and CLLD follow-up correspondence.
- Folder4 – CLLD meeting notes, Work and Thrive partnership tasks, results tracking, project extension requests and evidence uploads.
- Folder5 – Work and Thrive partnership emails, ESF data sharing with North of Tyne Combined Authority, Newcastle Fund small grants material, missing information queries and TRJ participant data.
- Folder6 – Work and Thrive outputs, ESF participant lists, late payment discussions, intervention lists and additional small-grant documents.
- NF-Correspondence – Newcastle Fund Round 13 small grants email trail, award confirmation and eligibility checks.
- NF-Monitoring – Monitoring forms and TRJ case studies submitted to the council as part of Newcastle Fund requirements.
This is the administrative backbone: the emails, forms, trackers, queries and evidence that sit behind public funding claims and award-ceremony narratives.
Navigating the GitHub archive is simple
You do not need coding experience. Just:
- Open the main archive page.
- Click a folder, such as Folder3 or NF-Monitoring.
- Click any PDF to view it directly in your browser.
- Use the green “Code” button if you want to download the entire archive as a ZIP.
Filenames were intentionally left intact to make cross-referencing easy for commissioners, journalists, funders and safeguarding reviewers.
How this connects with therecruitmentjunction.co.uk
Alongside this article is the dedicated evidence mirror: therecruitmentjunction.co.uk.
That site brings together:
- Funding breakdowns for TRJ including NCC, NECA and other public bodies.
- Governance and trustee profiles with links to their public statements.
- A structured evidence archive linking out to FOI documents, screenshots and official correspondence.
- A secure whistleblower route for staff, volunteers or partners.
The TRJ mirror, the GitHub FOI archive and this article form a connected record: one holds the raw documents, one holds the structured timeline, and one explains why any of this matters.
Why this will matter to commissioners, auditors and regulators
These are not abstract forms. They sit behind real-world decisions:
- How public money is allocated.
- What safeguarding duties look like in practice.
- Whether disabled service users are treated fairly.
- What trustees say publicly versus what paperwork actually shows.
Commissioners and funders now have the ability to review TRJ’s claims against the council’s own documentation, without relying on marketing copy or awards-night speeches.
Hosting, data integrity and neutral infrastructure
The FOI archive is hosted on GitHub under the ReasonableMedia account. Technical work is supported by Ki-Ki, my neutral infrastructure project providing Cloudflare-based static hosting, hardened headers and evidence-grade logging.
- All FOI files are exactly as supplied by NCC.
- No edits other than file organisation.
- All identifiable details were redacted by NCC before release.
- Everything is published in full for public accountability.
The Reasonable Adjustment provides the editorial analysis. Ki-Ki provides the neutral technical foundation that keeps the record stable and tamper-resistant.
Closing note
This archive exists for one reason: accountability. If a charity says it receives no public funding, the public is entitled to see what the council’s own documents show.
The FOI archive, the TRJ mirror and the analysis on this site now give commissioners, journalists, regulators and service users a complete picture.
The paperwork is no longer hidden in inboxes. It is on the public record, where it belongs.
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