St George’s Spring Fete
The 2026 St George’s Spring Fete will be taking place on Saturday 16 May, mid-way through this year’s Jesmond Community Festival. Make a note in your diary!
2026 Jesmond Community Festival
The 2026 Jesmond Community Festival will start on Saturday 2 May and last until Sunday 31 May. Over the next few weeks this website will be updated with information about the 2026 Festival. At present a lot of the detailed information still refers to 2025!
Following the Teddy Bear Trail
Jay Yi was one of the keen followers of this year’s Teddy Bear Trail!
Teddy Bear Results
As usual, the 2025 Teddy Bear Trail was a great event, with 32 Teddies in various “travelling” guises distributed over many Jesmond Streets. Full details of the locations of all the bears is now on display in Jesmond Library.
The two favourite entries were Hiking Hamish and Hilary, and Barnacle Bear.
We are indebted to Symonds Taylor for printing all the entry forms, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s for donating prizes, and Tesco for providing yummy Teddy treats for each child returning a form. And of course the organisers, the Friends of Jesmond Library.
Jesmond Vale Heritage Walk
The Guided Walk of Jesmond Vale, organised by the Friends of Jesmond Dene, benefited from glorious weather. For more information about the Friends and their activities, email friends.of.jesmond.dene@gmail.com .
Revolution on Tyneside
Keith Jewitt can be relied on to give a fascinating and well-researched talk, and last night’s offering “Revolution on Tyneside” was no exception! Jesmond Library was packed as Keith described the visits of Garibaldi and others to Tyneside.