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Prof. Roy Taylor Lecture

Prof. Roy Taylor Lecture

For our next Hub fundraising event we are pleased to welcome Prof. Roy Taylor MBE for this lecture: Cutting Through the Food & Health Confusion. Roy is Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at Newcastle University and a bestselling author. Wednesday 22nd October...

Nosferatu Screening

Nosferatu Screening

Experience the chilling magic of F. W. Murnau’s silent masterpiece Nosferatu (1922) with accompaniment on the organ from Darius Battiwalla (Leeds City Organist). Saturday 4th October at 7pm in St George's Church. Tickets £10 on the door or available in advance from...

Uniform Collection

Uniform Collection

35% of children in the North East live in poverty (figure from Children North East). Will you help us to help them? "What you do for the least of my brothers and sisters..." For the last few years the congregation and community have together collected items of new...

Organ Recitals 2025

Organ Recitals 2025

Summer Series of Recitals 2025 We're pleased to be running this series of organ recitals again, Fridays at 1pm until 18th July. The recitals last around 45 minutes. This year the programme is as follows: 16 May - Drew Cantrill-Fenwick (St George's, Jesmond)23 May -...

Summer Fete

Summer Fete

Saturday 31st May, 12-3pm on the green. Please join us for this wodnerful community occasion to close the Jesmond Festival. There will be the usual array of stalls, entertainment, and refreshments - plants, baked goods, bottles, books, a barrell organ, Irish dancers...

VE Day Big Friendly Gathering

VE Day Big Friendly Gathering

Big Friendly GatheringTo celebrate VE Day   St. George’s is marking the Saturday before VE Day with a BFG on Saturday 3 May, 2-5pm. As the Jesmond Festival Parade ends on St. George’s Green, we hope you will bring along a picnic and enjoy the day with us. There...

Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

Holy Week and Easter We have a variety of services taking place across the benefice (in addition to the usual Tuesday and Thursday services at St Hilda's and here respectively). You are welcome to attend as many as you wish, whether you have been before or not. We...

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

This year Ash Wednesday falls on 5th March and we will mark it with two services: 9.30am at our sister church St Hilda's, Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes. 7.30pm at St George's, Sung Communion with Imposition of Ashes. It will include music by Palestrina and...