May 2025

Jesmond Community Festival

The 2025 Jesmond Community Festival

COMPETITIONS

Teddy Bear Trail: “Ted goes Travelling”

Ted will be back in 2025, with a new theme. The trail will be in place from Saturday 17 May to Sunday 1 June. For more information, and entry forms, pop into Jesmond Library.

The Teddy Bear Trail is organised by the Friends of Jesmond Library.

 

Photographic Competition: Togetherness

The annual festival photographic competition is organised by Jesmond Community Forum and the Friends of Jesmond Library. The theme for the 2025 competition will be “Togetherness”, which should give entrants an opportunity to capture family celebrations as well as community events, including Jesmond Community Festival. Full details of the rules, and entry forms, can be obtained from Jesmond Library, or by emailing info@jesmondfestival.org.uk .The closing date for entries will be Saturday 20 September. Remember, you must have the permission of everyone appearing in a photograph, to enter it into the competition. The  winning photographs will feature in the Forum’s 2026 Jesmond Calendar.

 

 

Jesmond Gardens Awards 2025

Watch out for more details of this year’s awards competition, which will appear on this website in due course, or email GardensinJesmond@gmail.com . The awards will be presented in Jesmond Library on Thursday 22 May.