Springbank Pavilion, in Leazes Park, is now home to a pilot arts & health project in partnership with Newcastle Hospitals Charity. 

Whether you’re NHS Trust staff, a patient, a visitor, or part of our wider communities, we hope you find an activity that you would like to take part in. The programme includes creative workshops in the fully accessible building (delivered with local cultural organisations) and artists’ activities that can be accessed on your lunch break, in your bed on the ward, in the waiting room, or at home.

We encourage you to find ways of connecting with nature, whether you visit the park, or pop on a pair of headphones and let local artists take you on an imaginative journey into the fresh air. You can make a leaf garland, create your own drawings, take time to write, and explore the hidden sounds of the park. We hope these activities inspire you to help those who may have barriers to accessing green spaces in finding new ways to connect with nature. 

Located in the heart of the city, and right on the doorstep of the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Great North Children’s Hospital— both sites of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust —we are now opening this park building to the public for the first time! Urban Green Newcastle partnering with Newcastle Hospitals Charity, and their Arts Programme, allows this newly refurbished space to centre creative practice in nature for the benefit of our mutual wellbeing, both now and for our collective environmental futures.