News - Scotswood Garden

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:

Drawings:

Crowdfunder for Improved security

We are sad to share that we have had a fourth break in in two weeks, we've started a crowd funding appeal to replace items and improve security at the garden.

Here's the link if you would like to donate, as we are a small charity we don't have any spare funds so any donations are greatly appreciated

Scotswood News!

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

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.

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.

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