May 2021
Jesmond Community Festival
Jesmond Community Festival
NEWS
Tour de Jesmond 2024
We are beginning to get details of the first few events being planned for the 2024 Jesmond Community Festival. Next year's Tour de Jesmond is likely to take place on Sunday 5 May. For more information contact tony.waterston@ncl.ac.uk . Jesmond Choral Group are to give...
2024 Jesmond Community Festival
The 2024 Jesmond Community Festival will start on Saturday 4 May and end on Sunday 2 June, unless anything happens before then to change our minds! Anyone beginning to plan an event may like to know that next year’s Early May Bank Holiday is to be on 6 May, Spring...
2024 Jesmond Calendar
The 2024 Jesmond Calendar is now available in Jesmond Library, price £5. All the photographs in the calendar were entries in the photographic competition which formed part of the 2023 Jesmond Community Festival
Winning Photograph!
The winner of the 2023 Jesmond Photographic Competition is David Whinham, whose entry is titled "Noctilucent Clouds over Jesmond". Runners up were Nick Lambert and Fiona Clarke. All the winning entries will appear in a 2024 Jesmond Calendar, now in production.
2024 Jesmond Festival dates
A recent open meeting of Jesmond Community Forum decided to start planning for a 2024 Jesmond Community Festival. The festival will start on Saturday 4 May and end on Sunday 2 June, unless anything happens before then to change our minds! Anyone beginning to plan an...
2023 Jesmond Community Festival
Click on "History" in the main menu, above, to see the feedback report which Jesmond Community Forum has submitted to the Council, summarising this year's festival.
More Photos Please!
The closing date for entries to this year's Jesmond Photographic Competition isn't until Saturday 23 September, so you still have time to take photos on the theme of "A Different Jesmond". You can obtain entry forms by emailing info@jesmondfestival.org.uk. The best...
Amy Bearhouse wins by a whisker
The most favourite bear in the 2023 Musical Teddy Bear Trail was Amy Bearhouse, styled and dressed by Boilerhouse of Acorn Road. Runners up were Teddy Bears' Picnic, Ted Sheeran, Bear Necessities and Sting.
Extra Guided Walk
A message from John North...... Dee Pass and I led a walk during the recent Jesmond Festival. It was oversubscribed and inevitably some people were disappointed not to get a place. Dee and I are now offering a final Tyneside Flats to Tankerville walk in the hope that...
Heaton Park Walk
Today's walk in Heaton Park, organised by the Friends of Jesmond Dene, benefitted from glorious weather. (3 June 2023)
This year’s Festival nearly over!
Make sure that you hand in your entries for the Musical Teddy Bear Trail to Jesmond Library by 4:00pm on Tuesday June 6. And there is still plenty of time to enter the photographic competition, whose closing date isn't until September. On Sunday 4 June, the last day...
Glorious Gardens
The results of this year's Glorious Gardens competition were announced in Jesmond Library on 24 May. The winning Large Garden was entered by Julia Murden of 47 Larkspur Terrace; the best Container came from Catherine Snowden, 34 Kingswood Avenue; the winning Wildlife...
Tyneside Flats to Tankerville
This year John North combined forces with fellow City Guide Dee Pass, in order to accommodate more people onto his popular guided walks. This year's topic was "Tyneside Flats to Tankerville" and included a variety of pieces of local history from the Jesmond Cinema...
Plastic Free Jesmond and Sandyford
The winners of this year's Jesmond and Sandyford Plastic Free Awards for North and South Jesmond have been announced. The winner for North Jesmond was the Pink Lane Bakery and Cafe, Acorn Road, whose award was presented by Wendy Young at a meeting in Jesmond Library....
Seafarers of Jesmond
Keith Jewitt telling tales of Seafarers and Shipwrecks in All Saints Cemetery this morning (22 May).
Music for the Pool
Tickets for these four concerts are now on sale in Jesmond Pool and Jesmond Library - or you can turn up on the days of the performances. If you enjoyed hearing David Murray playing with the Northumberland Orchestral Society, here are some further chances to hear him,...
Plastic Free Jesmond
Do you want to know who has won the Plastic Free Jesmond and Sandyford 2023 Awards? Come along to the open presentations evening at Jesmond Library, 6pm on Tuesday 23 May! All welcome! For more information about Plastic Free Jesmond and Sandyford email...
Jesmond Choral Group and Priory Singers
A superb performance of "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" by Karl Jenkins, was given by Jesmond Choral Group and the Priory Singers, conducted by Jonathan Scott, at Jesmond United Reformed Church on 16 May.
Jesmond Choral Group
A free performance of "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" in Jesmond URC on Tuesday 16 May. Not to be missed!
Dawn in Jesmond Dene
The Friends of Jesmond Dene enjoyed excellent weather for their Dawn Chorus Walk, and saw and heard plenty of birds!
No Alpacas!
Jesmond WI tell us of late changes to their Festival Meeting on Monday 15 May. Due to unforeseen circumstances the Alpacas will be unable to attend. However the meeting will still go ahead (same place, same time) with refreshments, a raffle, bring and buy stall and a...
Picnic Starting Early
The Italian Picnic in Jesmond Community Orchard on Wednesday 10 May will start at 10:30 am instead of 11:30 am, in the hope of benefitting from better weather!
Sketches of the Toon
Sketches by Stephen Hin Lok Lo, a student at Newcastle University, now on display in the Catherine Cookson Room, Jesmond Library.
Tour de Jesmond
Do you watch cycle racing on TV? Now is your chance to take part in the family version, the Tour de Jesmond! Bring your bike to the Bandstand in Exhibition Park on Sunday 7 May at 1:45 for a prompt 2:00 pm start. Suitable for anyone from ages 8 to 80.