Jesmond Community Festival

With the completion of this year's Teddy Bear Trail, all the teddies are returning to their homes. Bad Mood Bear is taking time out to catch up with his reading.

Glorious Gardens Awards. Once again the Glorious Gardens competition brought to attention some wonderful Jesmond gardens. These were the award winners: Small garden: 16 Northumberland Gardens. This small space is densely filled with a range of very unusual plants,...

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The Red Trail

The Blue Trail

The routes for this year's two Teddy Bear Trails are now on display in a window of Jesmond Library, but all the teddies will not be in place until Saturday 22 May, so you will have to be patient for a few more days yet!

Closing date extended

Keep Jesmond Clean is a community action group of local people who are keen to assist in keeping the area clean and tidy. The group aims to reduce litter, promote recycling, and work in partnership with local businesses, universities, agents and schools, and is...

All the walks around the Reid Park Road area, arranged for this year's Jesmond Community Festival, are now fully booked up. If you have already booked, and find that you are no longer able to attend, please inform norths_2000@yahoo.co.uk as soon as possible.

All spaces taken on Old Cemetery tours

John North, organiser of the circular walks in the Reid Park Road area, tells us that nearly all the spaces available on the walks are now fully booked, with only one place free, on the afternoon of 28 May. The other 41 places are all taken.

Jesmond Parish Church have joined Jesmond Community Festival with four events to take place over the period 20/23 May, including a Family Fun Morning and Escape Room on Saturday 22 May.

All the walks and tours forming part of this year's festival are booking up fast! If you are interested, contact the relevant organiser as soon as possible, or you may be too late. Numbers on each walk have to be limited, to stay within COVID guidelines.

Jesmond Community Orchard have confirmed that their popular annual Plant Stall will be in position outside The Boiler House in Acorn Road between 10:30 am and 2:30 pm on Saturday 8 May.

Headteacher joins Festival

Essential Event for anyone registered to Vote in Jesmond!

All five of John North's Reid Park Road walks are now fully booked, so he has arranged for a fellow City Guide, Christine Dinsdale, to lead another walk on the same route, on the afternoon of 28 May. For information about any of the Reid Park Road walks email...