Newcastle City Council

Welcome to the website for the North Jesmond ward

The site includes a wide variety of information about the ward including what's on, local facilities and services, useful contacts, community groups, local meetings and events and how to have your say.  It also provides facts and figures about North Jesmond ward, and links to local key web sites.  the links on the right hand side of the page will help you find what you need.

General information

North Jesmond ward has a number of facilities and services to support the local community. Local facilities include Jesmond Library and Jesmond Swimming Pool which are both located on St Georges Terrace. There are a number of local churches which run activities for various age groups and interests in the local community. Children and young people can use Bells Yard which is a multi use games area with a playground for younger children located on Norham Place. The ward has two main shopping areas, Acorn Road/St Georges Terrace and Brentwood Avenue shopping area. North Jesmond also has a primary school, West Jesmond Primary which is located on Tankerville Terrace.

Police and Community Forum

Police and Community Forums bring you face to face with the people responsible for policing your community.  They give you the chance to have your say and get the facts about what the police and the police authority are doing to tackle crime in your area.

 For more information phone 0191 433 2145 or contact http://www.northumbria-police-authority.org/forums.htm

Jesmond Community Festival 2012

This year's festival spans 18 days, from 27 April to 14 May, and includes no less than 88 events in 39 different venues all over Jesmond. The Festival Parade will be on Saturday 28 April.  New venues taking part in the festival for the first time include the Mansion House, West Jesmond Metro Station. Waitrose Jesmond, Barney and Jude's (in Sandyford) and the Little Moor (in High West Jesmond).

Other highlights include a free performance of the Dvorak Requiem, an evening with the local singer songwriter R J Thompson, a seasonal Food Market, a Wine and Chocolate evening, a Spring Ramble and a Journalism Bootcamp.  There are also a "Design a Pizza" competition for children, a "Bake a Quiche" competition for adults and a Forensic Workshop for children.

Programmes for the 2012 Jesmond Community Festival are now available for collection from Jesmond Library, and from various community venues including Holy Trinity and St George's Churches, and Jesmond Pool.  2012 Festival Programme (in date order) pdf (288KB) here

Come and Join in the Jesmond Festival Parade on Saturday 28 April - details here
 

On line map

Use our online map to find your nearest libraries and schools.  You can also find out where your nearest recycling site is and find leisure services, such as swimming pools. And heritage information such as listed buildings and ancient monuments

 North Jesmond Highways Maintenance

Click here for a ward report for North Jesmond outlining highways schemes from 2010 onwards (opens pdf 1.535 KB).  There is a separate report for a range of works across the whole of the city.  Click here for more details (opens pdf 243.43KB)

Latest North Jesmond Developments

2012 Jesmond Calendar
Jesmond Community Forum’s 2012 Calendar is now available in Jesmond Library and the Jesmond Dene Visitor Centre at Millfield House. Priced at £4 a copy, the calendar contains 12 full colour photographs, a mixture of well-known views (such as the Ouseburn in Jesmond Dene) and unusual features (such as a statue of a lion in the grounds of Jesmond Towers – now Shepherd Towers). All the photographs were taken by Jesmond residents, prize winners in a competition organised by Jesmond Community Forum, with the theme “A Different Angle on Jesmond”.
The winning photograph in the competition, an unusual view of Holy Trinity Church, taken from Benton Bank by Mr Terry Phillips, features on the cover of the calendar, as well as illustrating October. Other images include The Hoppings, Highbury, Newcastle Cricket Club, the model railway in Exhibition Park, St George’s Church Tower from the Dene, and Bees at the new Visitor Centre at Millfield House.
 

Operation Oak funding agreed for 2011/12 academic year

Funding has been secured for the fourth academic year running for extra police patrols to help curb anti-social and nuisance behaviour in North and South Jesmond wards.

This is part of an initiative involving the local neighbourhood policing team, Newcastle City Council officers, local councillors and Newcastle and Northumbria Universities.

North and South Jesmond Ward Committees have contributed £8000 each to the initiative this year. Newcastle University has also committed £8000 and Northumbria University £4000. This will pay for two dedicated police officers to be available to respond to anti social behaviour and noise issues mainly associated with students on three nights per week from 10pm until 4am.

For more information about the scheme from Northumbria Police click on this link. 

Student Volunteering

Find out what student volunteering activities are happening in North Jesmond ward by using this link.  If you have an idea for a student volunteering project please contact the Communities Officer

Friends of Newcastle Trees (FoNT)

The newly constituted Friends of Newcastle Trees takes over the work of the Newcastle Tree Wardens as set up by the Newcastle City Council Tree Strategy.  Friends of Newcastle Trees Information Sheet (101kb).

Tree Wardens from Friends of Newcastle Trees acts as a 'neighbourhood watch' over the trees where they live, looking out for problems like vandalism, storm damage, disease, dead trees and reporting protected trees being damaged or under threat.  You could also help find places to plant more trees in your area and join in with tree, hedgerow and woodland projects.  To find out more please contact Edwina Symmons on 0191 2778950 email:  newcastletrees@ymail.com

 Sure Start Woodlands Childrens Centre

A new Childrens Centre for North Jesmond, North Heaton and Dene wards has opened on Newton Place in High Heaton. Some of the services that will be delivered from the centre include an early years group, family support, information and resource drop ins, family learning and the childminder network. As well as services being delivered from the main building on Newton Place, they will also be run from other locations within the three wards. To find out more about what is going on at the Woodlands Childrens Centre visit their website.

Heritage

Coal was mined in North Jesmond ward from a very early period. The first records of this date back to 1595. In the 1800's there was a coal mine located at the east end of Fern Avenue.

Jesmond Road was constructed in about 1840 by Mr John Dobson. Osborne Road, from Jesmond Road to Clayton Road was constructed between 1860 and 1870.

A number of old buildings still exist in North Jesmond ward. Jesmond Towers was most recently operated as La Sagesse Convent School but is currently empty. The house has had a number of owners over the years and was also formerly a boys school. St Georges Church which is a grade 1 listed building and dates back to the 1880s is also located in the ward on St Georges Close.

Are you part of a group or organisation with an interest in the local history of North Jesmond? If you have information about the area please contact the Communities Officer for North Jesmond and we will create a local heritage section of this page.

Heritage Lottery Fund launches All Our Stories Grant Scheme

The Heritage Lottery Fund has launched a new £1 million grants programme called "All Our Stories" to support local projects across the UK that want to explore their local heritage.

A wide range of voluntary and community sector organisations (including charities, community groups, and heritage organisations) throughout the UK can apply for grants of between £3,000 and £10,000.

Funding will support activities which encourage exploring and learning about local heritage. Groups should be willing to share what they have learned with their community by doing things like holding a community event, performance, exhibition or producing a leaflet or designing a smart phone app or website, etc.

Activities that will be supported are:

Visits to places like historic buildings, landscapes, parks, burial grounds, museums, archaeological sites or industrial heritage sites like railways.
Using collections like archives, libraries and museums, including collections held by people in the community.
Talking to people who know about heritage or holding workshops, talks and sessions exploring people's memories.
Recording things like people's memories or local wildlife; scanning old photographs and documents; archaeological digs or surveying historic buildings.
Groups will be able to work with researchers from 21 universities and other educational organisations across the UK who will be available to support projects from the beginning of the application process as well as the research itself. All Our Stories has been developed in support of the BBC's The Great British Story - A People's History, which is a new series to be broadcast on BBC Two. All Our Stories will also feature in five BBC Learning events at flagship heritage locations, which will be run in tandem with the TV series, to get people involved with their local heritage.
 

The deadline for applications is 31 July 2012 with a notification of decisions in October 2012.