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!

Youth Social Action / November 25th, 2024

Know Your Neighbourhood Project / November 25th, 2024

Benfieldside Community Garden / November 25th, 2024

Benfieldside Community Garden's First Birthday

What a year we have had! We have transformed a derelict space into a fabulous community asset. Plus there's even more to come. Take a look at our fabulous booklet to get a full appreciation of all of the work we have done!

Youth Social Action / December 6th, 2024

Aspirations and Future Planning / December 6th, 2024

Know Your Neighbourhood Project / December 6th, 2024

From Consett to Chan Yu

The premise of Know our Neighbourhood is to get people volunteering, not just to provide the activities themselves. We were delighted when Joe Farnsworth signed up a s a volunteer, Joe had recently graduated with a Cyber Security degree from the University of Newcastle and was looking for opportunities to extend his skills.

Self-Belief and Emotional Wellbeing / May 30th, 2025

Youth Social Action / May 30th, 2025

Aspirations and Future Planning / May 30th, 2025

A Visit from the Centre for Social Justice

On Tuesday 13th May, our Harton Academy boys’ wellbeing and aspirations group had a wonderful visit from Dan Lilley, senior researcher at The Centre for Social Justice.