• Forest School Training, Newcastle, UK
  • Forest school drawing

    Forest school drawing

  • Snowy Day

    Snowy Day

    The garden is to be enjoyed in all weathers.

  • Willow Structures to Explore

    Willow Structures to Explore

    A range of living willow structures are in the garden waiting to be explored.

  • Volunteer at SNCG

    Volunteer at SNCG

    Find out more about volunteering

  • Art garden

    Art garden

  • Beautiful ponds

    Beautiful ponds

  • Wild flowers

    Wild flowers

  • Green crown

    Green crown

  • Forest garden

    Forest garden

  • Forest garden

    Forest garden

  • Forest School Programmes

    Forest School Programmes

    We offer Forest Schools Programmes for primary and secondary ages, either in our beautiful garden, or if you have the space, we can help you set up a Forest School area in your own school. Our education manager has 7 years experience running forest school session for children and young people...

  • School visits

Building Extension & Renovation Plans

We are excited that 2024 will see our building work completed. 

Over the last 2 years we have seen the foundations laid and several shipping containers craned onto site ready to create our brand new extension. 

The extension and building refit will provide us with: 

  • A larger kitchen for running courses, creating even more delicious preserves and lunches! 
  • A volunteer room for our team to relax in! 
  • A large communal space that can be split into 3 rooms. 
  • More toilets! 
  • An indoor garden! 
  • Additional storage
  • An extended shared office
  • A living roof

 

You can watch these videos to get an artists impression of the new space:

Video A  

Video B

Video C

Video D

 

Drawings: 

Proposed Site Plan

Proposed Landscaping

Proposed Floor Plans

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Scotswood News!

Scotswood News!

  1.  We are delighted that two of our projects have been shortlisted for the Institute of Outdoor Learning national awards. Our Breeze Forest School project led by our Education Manager Harriet Menter,  in the research category and our Elderberries project led by Leanne Defty our Wellbeing  Garden Officer in the Lifelong Learning category. You can vote for us here https://www.outdoor-learning-conference.org/Outdoor-Learning-Awards-Finalists-and-Voting
  1. Please join us for a family fun day at Denton Dene on Saturday 17th November from 10.30am to 1.30pm. We will be on the field down the hill behind the sports centre. We are very pleased that Baywings Falconry will be bringing along their beautiful birds of prey, there will be a chance to plant trees, help with litter picking, and also our usual woodland games, art and crafts. For more information please contact Amber or Harriet on 0191 2004706.
  1.  As part of our Wildlife Superheroes Project we are collecting your hedgehog sightings. If you have seen a hedgehog in Newcastle or Gateshead please let us know by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.with the place, time and date and she will input the data into Environmental Records North East (ERIC) to help build up a picture of the local hedgehog population.
  1.  Finally we have just agreed dates for our Forest School Level 1 training in Spring 2019: March 4th, 5th and 7th. For more info contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.or see our website https://sncg.org.uk/forest-school/forest-school-training-newcastle

 

Best wishes,

Harriet

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Two and a half acres of beautiful organic garden containing ponds, meadows, woodland, sculptures fruit and vegetables.

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Our education and youth programmes for young people cover a huge variety of themes and activities including pond dipping, environmental arts, forest schools, Duke of Edinburgh and more...

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We believe that it is far better to work with nature to create beautiful and productive places, rather than wage war on pests and weeds.