Jesmond Community Festival

24/01/2025

The theme of this year’s Teddy Bear Trail will be “Ted goes travelling”.

The route will start from Jesmond Library and then go south along St George;s Terrace, via Lily Crescent, Holly Avenue West, Osborne Road (between Holly Avenue West and Haldane Bridge), Eslington Terrace (part), Kingsland, Clayton Road to Otterburn Terrace, Acorn Road, The Grove (back gardens), Reid Park Road and back along St George’s Terrace to the library.

If you would like to host a teddy or help in another way, please pop into Jesmond Library and sign the sheet before Feb 21st.

For more information email joanaarvold@icloud,com .

01/01/2025

Our last few 2025 Jesmond Calendars are still available in Jesmond Library. Happy New Year, everyone!

09/12/2024

Please E mail if interested. Otherwise, do share if you can.

26/10/2024

The winner of this year's Jesmond Photographic Competition was David Whinham with his photograph "The Fab Four of Jesmond". Runner Up was David Pretswell. All the winning photographs will feature in our 2025 calendar "Jesmond People", available soon from Jesmond Library.

10/10/2024

Next year's Jesmond Community Festival will start on Saturday 3 May and end on Sunday 1 June 2025
Start letting us know if you fix or consider dates for any festival events!
[email protected]

28/08/2024

30/06/2024

"Jesmond People". You still have until 21 September to take photographs to enter into our 2024 Photographic Competition. The topic is "Jesmond People". It doesn't need to be someone famous - why not submit a favourite family photograph, taken in the Dene, at the Hoppings, or in a Jesmond Street?

21/06/2024

The two favourite bears in the Teddy Bear Trail were N'Elly McArthur and Beth Ted-le!

16/06/2024

The 80 events which comprised the 2024 Jesmond Community Festival recorded over 12,200 attendances - although of course quite a lot of people attended several events, so there will be a lot of double counting.

03/06/2024

At last, some good weather for a walk! This was organised by the Holy Trinity Walking Group. to Edmondbyers.

03/06/2024

The last of this year's big Festival musical highlights was Jesmond Choral Group's performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience", with the help of the Priory Singers, conductor Jonathan Scott, pianist Julia Kennard and a host of guest soloists.

02/06/2024

The very well attended Kids' Organ Prom in St George's Church on 29 May featured Saint-Saens "Carnival of the Animals".

30/05/2024

This year's Jesmond Community Festival is drawing to an end, but don't miss the lunchtime music at St George's (1 pm on Friday 31 May) or Jesmond Choral Society at the URC on Saturday evening.

26/05/2024

The Friends of Jesmond Dene "enjoyed" another rain-interupted walk in Jesmond Dene on 26 May. For more information about what they get up to when it isn't raining, email [email protected] .