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New area Announced! The Newcastle Green Gathering team are please to unveil a new area for the event - Leazes Glade will feature e diverse range of arts, community & heritage activities and much, much more. Stalls Pitches available Stalls Pitches available Band selection night Thanks to everyone who came to the Band Selecta Gigs - don't forget to check out the highlights Wednesday 12th March on NE1-FM (102.5 FM) 7pm till 9pm and vote for your favourite band |
Welcome to the home of Newcastle Green Gathering - The UK's best free environmental festival.
The festival will be taking place in Leazes Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne on the 30th & 31st August. Featuring 5 stages of music, arts, community groups, alternative therapies, stalls, food, drink (please note - no alcohol to be brought onto the site - drinks available through event bars) and much more. All dedicated to making sure that everyone in the city and beyond, can make small but practical steps to change the environment we live in for the better.
We don't intent to preach or make you feel bad, but we hope that if everyone who visits comes away wanting to do something small to make a difference, big changes will result. Please take time to have a look around, and don't forget to come down and soak up the atmosphere of the festival itself - see you in the park!
The Newcastle Green Gathering is the UKTs biggest and best free community environmental festival and is celebration of the environment, music, arts and much, much more.
With its roots firmly in NewcastleTs dynamic green culture, the Newcastle Green Gathering aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and living ethically by providing a creative and educational environmental, arts and music based event for the benefit of the local community, highlighting the small, simple changes we can all make to our lifestyles to become more environmentally and ethically aware, without dramatically affecting the way we live our lives, or our quality of life.
The festival itself takes place in Leazes Park, close to the centre of Newcastle â?" making it easily accessible to the whole of the local community - and is entirely organised and run by volunteers â?" all dedicated to spreading the environmental message of the festival through a medium not always favoured by the traditional â??environmentalistâ??.
Leazes Park can claim to be the first purpose-built public park on Tyneside and was opened on December the 23rd 1873.
Alderman Gregson went on record in the Council Chamber that of all public improvements this would give more satisfaction than anything the Corporation had ever done (hear, hear) and great credit was due to our illustrious fellow-townsman Councillor C. F. Hamondâ??.
After 131 years of use the Heritage Lottery Funded restoration has re-awakened Councillor Hamondâ??s dream and Leazes Park looks forward to giving pleasure to another five generations of Geordies.
The Terrace
Constructed in 1879 the terrace was a place for the Victorians to promenade in their finery. A year later the statuary and vases were added. The Acanthus leaved urns and status were made of concrete, a rediscovered and exciting material which could be cast into complex shapes. The vases have been copied from the one surviving original and the statues faithfully recreated from old photographs.
Completely rebuilt the terrace is now an excellent area from on which to hold events and activities and of course, to promenade in ones â??Sunday Bestâ?T.
The Bandstand
1875 saw the ordering of a bandstand from George Smith and Hay of Glasgow. Much used for musical events until as recently as 1959. It was demolished in the early 1960â?Ts and and its remains buried behind the Western Lodge.
Catalogues of the time, photographs and a bandstand known to be the same were studied by Heritage Engineering in order to exactly recreate the bandstand.
Hoyles Intake
Acquired in 1884, this piece of land offered exciting opportunities for creative landscaping and in 1892 a second lake was created. Many ice-skating events were held here and an over the top ornamental electric light erected in the centre to illuminate the events. In the 1930â?Ts the lake was drained and tennis courts constructed. Being on the lake bed there have been occasions when the courts have become a lake again but the restoration has improved the drainage, refurbished the courts and with the help of Walbottle Campus School introduced a maze.
The Green Gathering Offers a number of stalls pitches available for booking" pitches are available for a flat fee that covers both days, 12-6pm Saturday & 12 till 6pm Sunday (the festival is open till 10pm Sunday however most stalls close at around 6pm as the festival moves into its evening mode)
Prices for a Campaign stall are as follows:
- Market stall (6ft x 2.5ft table within a stall) - 90
- Outdoor pitch (table size, pitch only - no table, chairs or structure) - 45
- Short Stay Delivery Vehicle Pass (Per vehicle) - 10
Please note that if you are a campaigning group that is planning on trading goods, you must complete a trade application. Please also be aware that you may be close to a music stage - MUSIC WILL BE PLAYING THROUGHOUT THE OPENING HOURS OF THE FESTIVAL -Â however these are often sought-after pitches!
If you would like to apply for a campaign stall at the Green Gathering, please click here (link to application process)
Trade Stalls
A large number of stalls are available to traders who meet the terms of the Green Gathering Ts Ethical Policy (link to PDF of the ethical policy). Stall trading hours are 12-6pm Saturday & 12 till 6pm Sunday (the festival is open till 10pm Sunday however most stalls close at around 6pm as the festival moves into its evening mode). Prices for stalls vary according to pitch sizes and are as follows:
- Trader stall (Small) (2.5T x 6ft market stall) - 140
- Outdoor trader stall (large) (Up to max of 10ft x 20ft) - 300
- Outdoor trader stall (massive) (Up to 20ft x 20ft) - 400
- Short Stay Delivery Vehicle Pass (Per vehicle) - 10
- Static on-site Vehicle (car) Pass (Per vehicle) - 40
- Static on-site Vehicle (van) Pass (Per vehicle) - 50
- Vehicle Overnight Stay Pass (Per night) - 20
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Please also be aware that you may be close to a music stage - MUSIC WILL BE PLAYING THROUGHOUT THE OPENING HOURS OF THE FESTIVAL -Â however these are often sought-after pitches!
If you would like to apply for a trade stall at the Newcastle Green Gathering, please