Our Work

A FREE six-week programme supporting artists living or working in North Tyneside to develop the skills required to co-produce & deliver community led arts projects inspired by the North Shields Heritage Action Zone.

Our North Shields: Past, Present, Future.

We're bringing public artworks co-designed with local people to 2 key sites in North Shields as part of the town's ongoing regeneration.

Join our latest Make It Happen project inspired by North Shields Heritage Action Zone.

Young Investigators aims to explore the arts and cultural offer available in North Tyneside for children and young people.

Do you want to get moving, dance and have the opportunity to meet new people?

Come and try Falling on Your Feet Segedunum.

Tell your stories and turn them into mini movies with professional filmmaker and Photographer Carl Joyce.

An artist consulted residents in North Tyneside about the local authority Equally Well Health and Inequalities plan with some member of the North Tyneside Leaders Together group.

Our Story - a story gathering project with Longsight Children's Community in Manchester, which was commissioned by Save the Children UK.

Take a look at some of the amazing stories from North Tyneside community members generated from their experiences during the pandemic.

Young people from John Spence Community High School took part in an eight week Make It Happen programme from April 2022.

A development programme for artists.

This event was held to listen to personal stories of those living through a pandemic from a diverse cross-section of residents from North Tyneside.

Do you care for a loved one or close friend?

Are you interested in learning new creative skills alongside like minded people?

Come and join us for By Your Side at North Tyneside Art Studio

The HeArt of Care is a global project with the aim of uniting carers from across the world and encourage them to share their experiences as carers through a creative medium. It forms part of our social prescribing programme, Better Connect.

A multi-arts project with young adults working to create a new wellbeing trail in Chopwell Wood.

Explore how stories and poems can offer comfort, escape, inspiration and laughter in difficult times.

Part of Better Connect

Sharing stories and experiences through creative sessions. Working with families who share a caring role in looking after loved ones who depend on them.

Part of Better Connect

Do you enjoy dancing, meeting new people and staying active?

Come and join us for Falling On Your Feet North Tyneside!

Part of Better Connect.

A River is a community garden project at Pattinson House in Gateshead in which local people are co-creating a large-scale mural.

Summer of Fun was a great way for children and young people from Wallsend and Howden to spend their holidays.

We worked with artists to offer a wide variety of artforms at different sites around the area.

A creative programme for Parent Carers across North Tyneside.

Explore a range of art forms with high quality artists at our weekly sessions.

Part of Better Connect.

Real Voice is an inclusive Youth Music project for young people across Northumberland.

A mindful space to make creative journals and explore lots of basic art, print, crafts, making and collage.

Part of Better Connect.

Story of Place supports Wallsend Children's Community mission to ensure the town's children enjoy the same opportunities as young people from more affluent areas.

A social prescribing project aimed at connecting 350 young and adult carers with arts and culture to transform experiences after COVID-19.

Restoring the elegance of North Shields' historic town centre.

Together Again gave residents in North Shields and Wallsend the chance to explore, reconnect and shape the future of their town. The project builds on our 'Town Common Festival'.

A programme featuring a range of artists and artforms for people aged over 55 in North Tyneside with the aim of reducing loneliness.

A performing arts project for young people exploring exploitation and abuse within relationships, particularly during Covid-19.

A pilot programme of arts activities designed to promote wellbeing and resilience for residents in North Tyneside suffering from poor mental health.

Supporting young people of different ages and abilities in Northumberland to co-create music during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

Education and arts organisations working together, enriching access to cultural opportunities for young people.

Transforming a patch of astroturf in the main atrium of The Beacon Shopping Centre, North Shields into a new ‘town common’ for the residents of North Shields and surrounding areas.

A ground-breaking artistic programme in prisons and the community led by the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance.

Artsmark award is an award for schools and education establishments that is accredited by Arts Council England. The aim of the award is to make a commitment and ensure that children and young people have access to a high-quality arts and culture education.

A digital music collaboration with Cramlington Voluntary Youth Project in partnership with Inclusion north, Music Partnership North and Cramlington Learning Village.

Bringing geocaching to Evenwood, County Durham alongside opportunities to explore the area's rich cultural history.

An innovative and interactive digital dance project, where the audience provide data and decide what happens to ‘David’ at the end of the piece.

A geocache art-trail in Stamfordham, Northumberland bringing communities together to share stories and experiences.

A flexible, participant-centred programme that provides training and support to encourage and enable people to design, manage and deliver their own activities with their own communities and with experts in the field.

An arts programme for young people from military families living in Albemarle Barracks.

A toolkit of arts activities created to help dads in prison reflect on the impacts their offending has on their children.

Exploring the role that the arts can play in creating an argument for Universal Basic Income.

Using creative approaches designed by women to help women.

Working with groups of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Refugee women facing spatial violence.

Exploring the history of civil rights in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A network for creative professionals who are aligned to the work of Helix Arts, across different fields and settings.

A digital music-making programme with young people in South East Northumberland.

A co-production with the international artist and film-maker Jordan Baseman and residents at Earsdon Grange Care Home in North Tyneside.

A new piece of music created by Johanna Linsley and Rebecca Collins together with community groups and local residents from Seaham, County Durham and composer Mariam Rezaei celebrating how sound makes a place unique and examines the boundaries between the private and the public.

Dancing your way to new friendships in your neighbourhood and beyond.

A dance and health programme, co-curated with people aged 65+ who are living independently.

Our work in support of Arts Council England's Creative Case for Diversity North.

A new approach to the redesign of public services.

Since 2015, Residents from Newbiggin by the Sea have been working with Northumberland based visual artists to design and make a range of creative products.

A training programme for community and voluntary organisations who want to produce their own arts residencies or festivals.