NewBridge Gallery is now closed until Friday 16 October.
You can join us on 5 September and 3 October for Saturday Social. You can still shop NewBridge Books throughout the weekdays!
Join us for a practical workshop by Food & Solidarity on housing organising using The Good Neighbours Toolkit. The toolkit is being used publicly for the first time; it’s designed for when someone near you is in trouble – a neighbour, a friend, someone on your street – and you want to act together rather than leave one person carrying everything.
How you can work to improve your community’s housing and ensure there’s more money in your pockets?
The workshop is practical and participatory and it focuses on the basics of housing casework and collective response. Not professionalised services or charity or “being nice” – but learning how people share responsibility, back each other up, and act in ways that shift power rather than just absorb harm. Learn, connect, and get involved in something collective – whether you’re already active, or just starting to realise that dealing with this stuff alone isn’t working.
The session will include a screening of Tenants in Revolt (1939) [20 mins] about the Stepney Tenants Defence League.
This is training, not a talk.
Tenants in Revolt, made in 1939 about the Stepney Tenants’ Defence League, shows tenants organising door-to-door, refusing unfair rents, supporting each other when landlords retaliated, and winning repairs and reductions by acting collectively.
It’s nearly 90 years old – and that’s the point.
So much of what you see in the film is still familiar: landlords ignoring repairs, families pushed to breaking point, institutions dragging their feet. Nearly 90 years, and barely anything has changed – except neighbours then knew that nothing would unless they acted together.
The film isn’t an instruction manual. It’s there to frame the workshop politically – to remind people that housing struggles didn’t start yesterday, and that ordinary people have organised successfully before, without experts or permission. People are often amazed by how little has changed. That recognition matters.
Food & Solidarity works with people dealing with poverty and housing crisis every week. Food parcels keep people going – but they don’t stop landlords, and they don’t fix the conditions that make life precarious in the first place. That’s why we organise.
Our building has lifts to the gallery, accessible and gender-neutral toilets, baby changing and breastfeeding facilities and two accessible parking bays. You can watch a walkthrough of our building and learn more about accessibility here.
Contact admin@thenewbridgeproject.com if you have any questions or need support to take part in this event.
NewBridge has a Safer, Braver Spaces policy. Everyone here treats each other with respect and consideration. Transphobia, misogyny, racism or harassment of any kind is not welcome.
This event is part of our current exhibition For Solidarity: Document H.E.T., Alternative Publishing and Community Undercurrents, an exhibition of pre-internet printed matter and ephemera forming a backdrop for a public programme on solidarity today.
Saturday 11 April 2026
12–3pm
Free
The NewBridge Project
Shieldfield Centre
4-8 Clarence Walk (off Stoddart Street)
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1AL
The NewBridge Project is accessible. You can find out more here, or feel free to contact us prior to visiting if you require additional information regarding access and facilities.
The NewBridge Project is a charity, registered charity no. 1173849.
We are grateful to our funders, including Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Newcastle University and the The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
We are proud to be a Gallery of Sanctuary.
