Benfieldside Community Garden's First Birthday

Youth Social Action / Know Your Neighbourhood Project / Benfieldside Community Garden / November 25th, 2024

What a year we have had - so much has been achieved in just one year. Take a look at our fabulous booklet to see how much we have achieved. 

Our Plans

Plans have been submitted to the council for a summerhouse and a composting toilet.  We also have landscape gardeners booked in to help us complete the transformation. Over the winter, and weather permitting, we will be getting some fabulous fully accessible garden picnic benches. Plus in April and May, the new fully accessible paths will be laid. Our landscape gardeners are experts in dry stone walling, so we are looking forward to them using their skills to reuse all of the stones in the garden!

Future Events

Our FREE community children's' events have been extremely popular, and it has been fabulous to see how much the children enjoy being outside in the fresh air. We are really looking forward to our future events - they will be even bigger and even better, when we get all of the new facilities in place.

Our Funders

Can we say a special thank you to our funders, without their grants we would not have achieved as much as we have. We are so excited about the future.

Thank you

Can we say a huge thank you top everyone in the community who has supported us. We have had a whole host of volunteers of all ages, and we fully appreciate you all! We have planted our vegetables for the winter, and filled the garden with spring bulbs and we can't wait to see the results in the spring.







Our amazing booklet!

Wellbeing and the Arts / September 10th, 2024

Consett Heritage Project / September 10th, 2024

The Monster of Consett

Lucas, Jacob, Jayden, Alan, and Roan collaborated in groups to explore the deep impact of Consett Steelworks on their local community, uncovering both its positive and negative influences. They then transformed their insights into a powerful poem, capturing what it was like to live in Consett at that time.

Wellbeing and the Arts / August 16th, 2023

The King's Coronation Celebration - Tow Law Millennium Primary School

Building Self-Belief CIO supported Tow Law Millennium Primary School, County Durham and the wider community in a range of creative activities to mark the King's Coronation in May 2023. The project was generously funded by The National Lottery Awards for All Community Fund.

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / May 7th, 2025

Youth Social Action / May 7th, 2025

Kye's Kick Off / May 7th, 2025

Kye's Kick Off - Charity Football Match In Memory of Kye Cunnington

Kye's Kick Off was a charity football match on Tuesday 29th April at South Shields FC. The match was between Boldon School's Yr 9 VS Yr 11, in memory of much loved student, Kye Cunnington. The total amount raised for Teenage Cancer Trust was just over £4000!