Whickham Hermitage Community Garden

Whickham Hermitage Community Garden - Newcastle Building Society Community Fund

In June 2016, we launched the Newcastle Building Society Community Fund and with the help of our customers, we’ve begun the process of providing grants to the first of what will be many deserving recipients across our branch network.

Whickham, Past and Present

A video by Whickham U3A about Whickham village.

Merry Christmas from Gateshead Making Every Contact Count

Merry Christmas to all the community groups and services in Gateshead we have met in 2017 including

Gateshead Clubhouse​, Age UK Gateshead​, Arthritis Care Gateshead Branch​, The4Cs​, Citizens Advice Gateshead​, Teams Life Centre​, Gateshead Evolve​, Gateshead Sexual Health​, Gateshead Libraries​, Sight Service​, FACT Cancer Support​, Teams Medical Practice​, KEYFORT GROUP​, Gateshead Older People's Assembly​, The Gateshead Housing Company​, Gateshead Council​ Workforce Development, Neighborhood services, Business and Enterprise, Springwell Community Memory Garden​, Watergate Café​, Tyneside Women's Health​, Food Nation​, RCTN​, Healthwatch Gateshead​, Path Head Water Mill​, NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG​ Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service​, Rethink Mental Illness, Whickham Hermitage Community Garden & Orangery Cafe​, Whickham Community Centre​, BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art​, Sage Gateshead​, Gibside NT​, Wayout in Gateshead​, Jigsaw Recovery Project​, gwk woodshed​, Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service​, QE Gateshead​, Boots UK​ Blaydon, Next Steps Learning for Life, Rivers Hotel -The Vault​, Virgin money - Gateshead, Dance City​, Felling Health Centre, Wix​ Your Voice Counts, Dunston Community Centre​, Changing Lives​, Tyneside and Northumberland Mind​, Carers Trust​, North East Better Health At Work Award, Education Gateshead, Gateshead Talking Therapies, Regional Refugee Forum North East​, Recovery College Collective, Carers Trust Cross Roads, haven Tyneside LTD, Youth Homeless North East​, North East Counselling Services CIC​, Cancer Research UK​, learning disabilities transformation programme, The Pickle Palace, GemArts​, Action On Public Transport, Land of Oak & Iron​, Gateshead Diabetes Group, Redheugh Gateshead, Patterson House, Gateshead Youth Council, Education Gateshead Early years and Childcare Service, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Health, Gateshead Young Womens Outreach Project, Birtley HUB, Relative Experience North East, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Mencap, The Lawnmowers, Think Ahead, Laughing Lasses Comedy Club, Gateshead Food Bank, Oxford terrace Practice Health Champions, Media Savvy, HAREF, Better Health at Work Health Advocates, Gateshead College, Jigsaw Recovery Project, Angling 4 All, Guidepost Gateshead


We hope to meet many more in 2018

Merry Christmas and a happy new year

Chopwell Past and Present

The people of Chopwell collaborated to make a wonderful short film about life in Chopwell. Enjoy!

Whickham / Sunniside Snowy ride.

Bit of a tootle around whickham and Sunniside. More enjoying the surroundings than blasting about...

Whickham May Fayre May 2008

Whickham's May Fayre was held in May 2008

INTERVIEW | We should be coming here and winning comfortably, says Andrew Bulford

Whickham fired five goals past Silksworth CW to progress through to the next round of the Durham Challenge Cup.
Two leagues separate the two sides and that showed in the game. Assistant manager Andrew Bulford said the side should be winning games like that comfortably.

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Heather Grove on Fleet Farming

Heather co-created Stetson University’s garden and farmers market and served as the founding Community Director of Orlando's East End Market. After interning with the USDA, researching food systems in Central Florida and abroad, Heather returned to her hometown to help rebuild Orlando’s local food system in 2011, where she helped bring Fleet Farming to life. She now works on sustainable agriculture and rural development projects abroad while consulting new branches of Fleet Farming around the world.

IN THIS PODCAST: Greg gets a chance to meet Heather who is leading a transformative new community farming program called Fleet Farming. You might have heard about the new idea of community gardening through donated front lawns and volunteers traveling on bikes to farm the plots. Heather explains how the program was created and how far it has expanded at this point. It all started with a brainstorming event looking to help localize the food system, and it now is to be replicated in cities across the United States and around the world.  

Go to our Podcast page at urbanfarm.org/fleetfarming to find photos, links, and more information on this podcast, as well as for each of our other great guest interviews.  You can also sign up for weekly email summaries of the interviews.

 

Sunniside Social Club