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!
Rooting for Community Gardens is a collaboration between Dwellbeing Shieldifeld, The NewBridge Project’s For Solidarity programme, and SAW.
Between 2023 and 2025, Dwellbeing Shieldfield, The NewBridge Project and SAW worked together to host a series of visits to community gardens in the North East of England. The group was made up of volunteers, workers and members of local community gardening projects and For Solidarity, as well as individuals curious about growing plants and community-run gardens.
During each trip we worked collectively to gather knowledge about the places we visited, by asking five enquiry questions using the growing of a plant as inspiration. Rooting for Community Gardens brings together these learnings alongside illustrations by NewBridge studio holder Jim Spendlove.
With thanks to Bees of Bensham, Dilston Physic Garden, Gibside Community Farm, Jesmond Community Orchard, Moss Peteral, North-East Organic Growers, Ouseburn Trust, Scotswood Garden, Shieldfield Grows, Station Masters Community Wildlife Garden, The Comfrey Project, TopSoil and Wild Roots.
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.
