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!
Jay Yi was one of the keen followers of this year’s Teddy Bear Trail!
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 .
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.
The joint winners of our 2025 Jesmond Gardens Competition were 2 Lily Avenue and 4 Lansdowne Gardens. Third place was 39 Osborne Road, while there were Special Mentions for 5 Hartside Gardens and Woodland Mews. The judges found it very difficult to come to their final conclusions and were keen to commend all the gardens which were entered for the competition!