Just weeks after opening our first Urban Green Café in Exhibition Park, we’re delighted to announce the opening of our second Urban Green Café in Paddy Freeman’s Park on Friday 23 July.
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Share your story of our parks during the pandemic
Over the last year our green spaces have been a lifeline for people across city. Now that everywhere is starting to open back up, we want to hear about your memories and stories of how your local greenspace helped you through the last year.
Meet our rabbits
This week we’ve been celebrating Rabbit Awareness Week in Pets Corner. Our rabbits are firm favourites with our visitors, and the focus of our current Summer at Pets Corner fundraising campaign, so we thought we would tell you a little more about their stories and how they came to join us at Pets Corner.
Why are there fences around the Banqueting Hall?
This beautiful building, built for Sir William Armstrong, is Grade II Listed, but has been in a poor state of repair for a number of years, and to protect both the building and our park users we have taken the decision to fence off the structure for the time being.
James Cross steps down as CEO to join Environment Bank
This Autumn our CEO James Cross will be stepping down and moving on to become Chief Executive of the Environment Bank, an organisation he knows very well having joined their board as a director in 2019.
Blossom Together comes to Exhibition Park
we’re proud to share the news that Exhibition Park will be one of the first sites outside London to take part in the Blossom Together project.
Plant an Acre with Traidcraft Exchange and Urban Green Newcastle
Today (22nd April) we marked Earth Day by planting the first tree in Traidcraft Exchange’s new Plant an Acre initiative, a projects which aims to see many thousands of trees planted across the UK and Tanzania.
Work is starting on our new Urban Green Café
Our fantastic Enterprise team have been working hard behind the scenes and this Monday (29 March) our contractors, Edmundson Building, arrive on site to transform the existing café in Exhibition Park into our new Urban Green Café.