May 2025

Jesmond Community Festival

The 2025 Jesmond Community Festival

COMPETITIONS

Teddy Bear Trail: “Ted goes Travelling”

Ted is back in 2025, with a new theme. The trail is 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

This year’s awards were presented in Jesmond Library on Thursday 22 May. The joint winners were 2 Lily Avenue and 4 Lansdowne Gardens, with third place going to 39 Osborne Road. Special Mentions were awarded to 5 Hartside Gardens and Woodland Mews, but the judges (Victoria Brock, Anna Meikle, Paul Taylor, Fiona and Chris Clarke) were keen to congratulate all this year’s entrants! A  splendid video showing them all is available. See the news item on this website, or Facebook, for the link.

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