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| Title | Content type | Description | Date(s) | Cost | Contact details | Areas covered | Key words |
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| Metrocentre Jobs Fair 2026 - Thursday 22 October | Events and Activities | Metrocentre Job Fair 2026 is back! We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Metrocentre Job Fair, in partnership with the Newcastle United Foundation! Whether you’re looking to launch your career and explore new opportunities. This is the event you won’t want to miss. 📅 Dates: Thursday 17th |
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Free | Foundation.Metrocentre@nufc.co.uk 07719044908 07719044908 |
Gateshead Wide | Education / Training / Employment, Events / Festivals / Fairs, Everyone |
| Metrocentre Jobs Fair 2026 - Thursday 15 October | Events and Activities | Metrocentre Job Fair 2026 is back! We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Metrocentre Job Fair, in partnership with the Newcastle United Foundation! Whether you’re looking to launch your career and explore new opportunities. This is the event you won’t want to miss. 📅 Dates: Thursday 17th |
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Free | Foundation.Metrocentre@nufc.co.uk 07719044908 07719044908 |
Gateshead Wide | Education / Training / Employment, Events / Festivals / Fairs, Everyone |
| Metrocentre Jobs Fair 2026 - Thursday 24 September | Events and Activities | Metrocentre Job Fair 2026 is back! We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Metrocentre Job Fair, in partnership with the Newcastle United Foundation! Whether you’re looking to launch your career and explore new opportunities. This is the event you won’t want to miss. 📅 Dates: Thursday 17th |
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Free | Foundation.Metrocentre@nufc.co.uk 07719044908 07719044908 |
Gateshead Wide | Education / Training / Employment, Events / Festivals / Fairs, Everyone |
| Metrocentre Jobs Fair 2026 - Thursday 17 September | Events and Activities | Metrocentre Job Fair 2026 is back! We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Metrocentre Job Fair, in partnership with the Newcastle United Foundation! Whether you’re looking to launch your career and explore new opportunities. This is the event you won’t want to miss. 📅 Dates: Thursday 17th |
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Free | Foundation.Metrocentre@nufc.co.uk 07719044908 07719044908 |
Gateshead Wide | Education / Training / Employment, Events / Festivals / Fairs, Everyone |
| Advice and Help Sessions | Services | We’re able to offer advice and advocacy services for all, based at one of the family hubs/ community centres that we are partnered with. Whether you need help with getting your CV ready for a job application, you need help filling in a benefit form, advice on how to access free child care, help | Free. | neukcpt-volunteers@outlook.com 07377856601 |
Blaydon, Gateshead Town Centre, Teams | Advice, Advocacy, Housing, Money Matters, Transport, Everyone | |
| Summer Fair | Events and Activities | We’re hosting the Teams Life Centre Summer Fete for them this year and we’d love you to come along. It’s free entry for all. There’ll be stalls for everyone and their cafe will be open too (fingers crossed we’ll even have an ice cream van there too!!). We ask that if you are using your car, that you |
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Free | neuk.community.pathways.trust@outlook.com 07305679221 |
Teams | Hobbies and Interests, Events / Festivals / Fairs, Fundraising, Everyone |
| Pilot Life Drawing Session - Bensham Grove Community Centre | Events and Activities | Unwind, focus, and develop your creative skills at our welcoming life drawing session this August. Hosted in the inspiring, historic setting of Bensham Grove Community Centre, this event is designed for everyone—from absolute beginners picking up a charcoal stick for the first time to seasoned local |
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£8.99 | northeastlifedrawing@outlook.com 07479358757 |
Allerdene, Bensham, Gateshead Town Centre, Gateshead Wide, Lamesley, Lobley Hill, Low Fell, Rowlands Gill, Swalwell, Teams, Whickham | Hobbies and Interests, Arts / Crafts / Photography, Health and Wellbeing, Adults |
| Free Seated Exercise for Seniors | Events and Activities | A free seated exercise class for seniors in a fully accesible building with friendly exercisers - no skills required! All welcome |
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Free Entry | ann.humes@gmail.com |
Gateshead Wide | Health and Wellbeing |
| Comic, Sci-fi & Toy Fayre | Events and Activities | Our 6th Charity Comic & Sci-fi event will be taking place at Barley Mow Village Hall on 6 Septmebr between 10:00 1nd 15:00. Our reviewers in the past have said:- "Brilliant" ; "Well worth a visit"; "Best local one I've been to" So come along - enjoy the day, maybe some bargains or that piece that |
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£2 for over 18's; £1 for 13-17 year olds; FREE for under 12's | barleymowvillagehall@gmail.com 01914105334 |
Gateshead Wide | Hobbies and Interests, Everyone |
| New Leam Lane funeral home opens and backs local football and golf clubs | Information | A funeral director that has supported families across Washington and Gateshead for more than two decades has officially opened a new funeral home in Leam Lane. Walker & Morrell Funeral Directors celebrated its new branch in Fewster Square with a special ribbon cutting ceremony and community open day | Gateshead Wide, Leam Lane | Community Development | |||
| Life drawing | Events and Activities | Join us for inclusive, body‑positive life drawing sessions designed for all levels — from curious beginners to experienced artists. Led by supportive facilitators in our beautiful studio space, each session offers a relaxed environment to explore shape, form and creative expression. Materials are |
weekly, starting from Wednesday, August 19, 2026 - 7:30pm, forever
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8.99 | admin@benshamgrove.org.uk 01914336450 |
Bensham, Dunston, Gateshead Town Centre, Teams | Hobbies and Interests, Arts / Crafts / Photography |
| Sausage Fest | Events and Activities | A heart‑warming celebration of dachshunds and the people who adore them. Join us for a relaxed, friendly afternoon filled with wagging tails, pupcakes, stalls, games and prizes — including our much‑loved Best Dressed Sausage competition. Set in our beautiful Grade II listed home, it’s the perfect |
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FREE | admin@benshamgrove.org.uk 01914336450 |
Gateshead Wide | Animals / Pets / Wildlife, Events / Festivals / Fairs |
| Multipurpose Room | Rooms to Hire | Large Multipurpose Room featuring Private Kitchen, Work Desks, Chairs, TV Screen, and Presentation Stand (for laptop, notes, etc.) | Margaret@teamslifecentre.org.uk 0191 4781003 0191 4781003 |
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| Boob Club Gateshead | Organisation | Welcome to Boob Club! We are a friendly social group which provides a supportive space for breastfeeding women. We aim to create a 'breastfeeding support village’ where mums can meet, chat and make new friends. We are a group for breastfeeding mums of babies and children of all ages, pregnant women | boobclub@yahoo.com 07715577047 |
Gateshead Wide | Help and Support, Health and Wellbeing, Breastfeeding, Women | ||
| Winter Solstice Goddess Sculpture Workshop | Events and Activities | As the longest night approaches, join us for a unique, grounding, and creative workshop to celebrate the Winter Solstice. This two-hour session invites you to connect with the quiet strength of the season by hand-sculpting your own personal Goddess figure or symbolic form from clay. This is a |
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£32.00 | Gateshead Town Centre, Gateshead Wide | Hobbies and Interests, Arts / Crafts / Photography, Health and Wellbeing, Adults, Women | |
| Gateshead Volunteer Recruitment Fair | Events and Activities | Ready to try something new? Interested in supporting a local cause, meeting new people, learning new skills, or simply finding out what's happening across Gateshead? Join us at the Gateshead Volunteer Recruitment Fair 2026! Taking place on Tuesday 13 October 2026, from 10am to 1pm at Gateshead |
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Free | harley.kuyck-cohen@connectedvoice.org.uk |
Gateshead Wide | Help and Support, Education / Training / Employment, Self Help, Hobbies and Interests, Events / Festivals / Fairs, Community Development, Everyone |
| Bridal Shop Volunteer | Volunteering opportunities | volunteer@stoswaldsuk.org 0191 2850063 |
Gateshead Wide | Everyone | |||
| Remembering the Birtley Belgians | Events and Activities | During WW1 over 6,000 Belgian men, women and children lived in their own self-contained community in Birtley called Elisabethville, named after the Belgian Queen. A piece of Belgium right here in Birtley. They came to work in the National Projectile Factory, many of the men were wounded soldiers who |
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Birtleyheritagegroup@hotmail.co.uk |
Birtley, Lamesley | Hobbies and Interests, History / Heritage, Everyone, Veterans / Service Personnel | |
| Ladies and Men's Shed Support Volunteer | Volunteering opportunities |
weekly on Tuesday, starting from Tuesday, August 11, 2026 - 1:00pm, forever
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volunteer@stoswaldsuk.org 0191 2850063 |
Gateshead Wide | Hobbies and Interests, Arts / Crafts / Photography | ||
| Dunston Staiths Dog Show 2026 | Events and Activities | If people had tails, we'd be wagging ours with excitement, because Dunston Staiths Dog Show is back this September. Save the date - you'd be barking mad to miss it! When? Saturday 12 September 2025 Registration 12.30 - 1.45pm Judging starts at 2pm What? Join us for a pawfect afternoon of family |
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Free to attend. £3 per dog per category. | tynederwentway@gmail.com |
Bridges, Dunston, Gateshead Town Centre, Teams | Animals / Pets / Wildlife, Events / Festivals / Fairs, History / Heritage, Outdoor Activities, Everyone |
| MotherFolk | Organisation | MotherFolk holds weekly mother & baby Writing Circles in beautiful places - using writing & community to support the transition into motherhood. The circles are open to anyone who self-identities with mothering or motherhood, whatever way that looks. Making mothers the main character: Gathering in | bethan@motherfolk.org.uk 07740371199 |
Bensham, Gateshead Town Centre, Ryton, Saltwell | Help and Support, Self Help, Books / Literature / Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Everyone, Families, Women | ||
| Evening Bat walk | Events and Activities | Come along and find out all about our night time inhabitants at Watergate Forest Park. Helen from the National Trust will lead a guided walk to help you learn more about these mysterious creatures. With the aid of bat detectors, you will learn to identify the different species at the park by the |
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Free | julie_maria_scott@yahoo.co.uk 07939378042 |
Gateshead Wide | Animals / Pets / Wildlife, Outdoor Activities |
| Event Champions - Great North Run | Volunteering opportunities |
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englandnorth@papyrus-uk.org 07799863485 |
Gateshead Wide | Help and Support, Education / Training / Employment, Events / Festivals / Fairs, Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health, Support for groups, Everyone, Students, Young People | ||
| Trustee Vice Chairperson Volunteer - Gateshead Sea Cadets | Volunteering opportunities |
monthly, starting from Monday, August 31, 2026 - 12:00am, forever
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jade.longstaff@tsleviathan.co.uk |
Bridges, Felling, Gateshead Town Centre, Quay Side, Teams | Outdoor Activities, Sport, Children, Young People | ||
| Trustee Secretary Volunteer - Gateshead Sea Cadets | Volunteering opportunities |
monthly, starting from Monday, August 31, 2026 - 12:00am, forever
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jade.longstaff@tsleviathan.co.uk |
Bridges, Felling, Gateshead Town Centre, Quay Side, Teams | Outdoor Activities, Sport, Children, Young People |