Jesmond Community Festival

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] .

26/05/2024

The North East Recorder Orchestra (NERCO) performed a varied programme of "Recorder Revels" at Jesmond United Reformed Church on 25 May. Highlights ranged from Handel to Scott Joplin and Gershwin.

26/05/2024

The winner of this year's Plastic Free Jesmond & Sandyford Award has been announced and it is the cafe Harvest in St George's Terrace, run by the Ouseburn Coffee Company, which was the first Jesmond catering business to commit to no use of single use plastics. The cafe provides free, good quality tap water to all customers, while also selling re-usable water bottles, which it will re-fill, free of charge.
Tony Waterston, coordinator of Plastic Free Jesmond and Sandyford (part of Keep Jesmond Clean) says "We are delighted that Harvest is leading the way in what we hope will become the norm in a few years time".

26/05/2024

Open Day at West Jesmond Allotments.

26/05/2024

Elvis in St George's - a very entertaining evening with the talented Gary Jay.

23/05/2024

The winners of the 2024 Glorious Gardens Competition, part of Jesmond Community Festival, have been announced as:
Best Pocket Garden: 46 Salisbury Gardens;
Best Container Garden: 46 Honister Avenue;
Best Wildlife Garden: 63 Holly Avenue; and
Best Large Garden: 55 Reid Park Road.
Congratulations to the winners, the competition organisers, and all the entrants!

23/05/2024

Quiz Night at Jesmond Methodist Church.

22/05/2024

Congratulations to those brave members of the Friends of Jesmond Dene, and their friends, who carried on with their walk along the "Royal Route" through Heaton Park and Jesmond Dene, despite the heavy rain!