Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we are unable to bring you our usual programme of activity for Northumberland Day 2020. However, what we do have are some competitions and a special image for you to share on social media. Head to our 2020 Zone page to find these. You will also find two education packs on our Education page, which you can use with your children whilst home schooling or just wanting to know more about Northumberland.
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May 2019
Northumberland Day Rock Hunt
The Northumberland Rocks group have been busy creating Northumberland Day pebbles to hide around the county, designing some amazing rocks that residents and visitors alike can try to find, if they keep eyes peeled. Anyone finding a rock should take a picture of themselves with their find, post that on social media with the hashtag #NorthumberlandDay and then hide it again, to give someone else the pleasure of a find.
Find out more »Northumberland Day Live Feed – from Overseas
Passionate Northumbrians, Backpacks and Cameras, will be overseas on Northumberland Day, but that won't stop them celebrating and letting you do the same. On Northumberland Day, they will be running a live feed on YouTube, highlighting all the places that people should visit, right across the beautiful county. There will also be a live chat option, so that you can comment on individual places, if you wish. What a great idea and contribution. You will find it here: http://www.youtube.com/c/BackpacksAndCameras
Find out more »Beadnell Puts on a Show for Northumberland Day
Beadnell village, last year's winner of the Northumbie Award for Best Community Event, will be celebrating Northumberland Day in particularly glorious fashion. The event will run for hours, with miles of red and yellow bunting to celebrate the county day. The programme is as follows: 9am - car boot sale on The Bullring 12 noon - hog roast at The Craster Arms, where live music will play all day 2.30pm - fun dog show on The Bullring 5.30pm - raising…
Find out more »Tomlinsons Café and Bunkhouse Seeks ‘Best Dressed’
Tomlinsons Café and Bunkhouse in Rothbury - set in a historic former schoolhouse and known for its wholesome meals, river views and cycle-friendliness - is celebrating Northumberland Day throughout May, but if you turn up wearing red and yellow/gold on May 26, and do it in style, you could win a prize for 'Best Dressed'. Get searching through those wardrobes ... it could be you!
Find out more »Norham: Turner’s View – a Contemporary View
An inspiring art exhibition will be taking pride of place in Norham Village Hall, to celebrate the village's links to the artist JMW Turner over the course of the Northumberland Day celebrations. The village hall will have a display of news produced works of art, some of which will be for sale, produced by local well-known artists who have brought their vision of Norham to life, in both prints and paintings. Additionally, there will be some older pieces, owned by…
Find out more »‘How to Paint in the Style of Turner’ Art Workshops
Northumberland Day is an opportunity for budding artists to head to Norham for an idyllic day spent learning how to paint in the style of JMW Turner. Artists will set up easels provided for them, either outdoors or, in case of rain, in a gazebo on the banks of the River Tweed, overlooking Norham Castle, in this uplifting event being organised by Berwick Educational Association. Under the watchful eye of tutor Gill Walton BA (Hons), those booking for…
Find out more »Boulmer Village Northumberland Day Celebrations
The Boulmer Village Memorial Hall will be staging another treat-filled pop-up café for Northumberland Day 2019, full of delicious home bakes, crab stotties (weather permitting) and Northumbrian craft stalls. Additionally, the Northumberland flag will be flying high on the village flag pole. Head to Boulmer for a real taste of Northumbrian village life.
Find out more »Art & Craft Fair: Showcasing Northumbrian Craft Talent
The best of Northumbrian crafts will be on show in the Warkworth Memorial Hall on Northumberland Day (May 26), in the first craft fair to be held at this venue which, if successful, could become a monthly occasion. Whether you are looking for sculpted art, bespoke jewellery, artwork, driftwood, or a variety of other local-crafted items, this art and crafts fair is the place to head and, when you've made your purchases, you could enjoy refreshments or freshly baked cakes…
Find out more »‘Return of the Puffins’ Coastal & Farne Island Adventure
Join Lundgren Tours as the award-winning local guides venture out with Golden Gate Boat Trips, based in Seahouses, to the Farne Islands, on a specially arranged Northumberland Day extravaganza. This trip has something for everyone. You will be passing Inner Farne, where you’ll have amazing views of Bamburgh Castle sitting on top of 45m of volcanic rock. You will also discover the tiny chapel where the famous St Cuthbert died as a hermit on the island due to his fondness…
Find out more »Norham Village ‘Northumberland Day Community Picnic’
Norham Village will again be organising a delightful community picnic for Northumberland Day, after its first successful event in 2018, as well as laying on a week of events, as detailed elsewhere in the event planner. The event will feature children's activities, tribal dancers, guided tours, Regency re-enactors and much more, plus lots of Northumberland bunting. Anyone can come along and live life like a Norham villager for the day. Just bring a picnic and soak up the atmosphere at…
Find out more »Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Dog Show
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea will be welcoming four-legged friends and their owners on Northumberland Day, hosting them at the annual dog show organised by Newbiggin Traders' Association. The Piazza Square will be full of all manner of breeds, as they compete to win the honours in various categories - Best Pup, Best Adult, Scruffiest Dog, Best Fancy Dress and Waggiest Tail. Entrance is via registration at Gifted by the Sea, between 11am and 11.30am, for a small entry fee of 50p per category.…
Find out more »Launch of New Mead: a Taste of Northumbria
There will be fire in the blood - or is that Blød - when the 2018 Northumbie winners of 'Best Foodie Event or Initiative', a Taste of Northumbria, make Northumberland Day the launch of their brand-new mead - the culmination of a series of exciting and enticing food launches that they are staging in the week leading up to Northumberland Day. The new mead will call upon Viking tradition and celebrate the landing of the first Vikings in Northumberland. This…
Find out more »Festival of Northumberland
To mark Northumberland Day, the Blyth Development Trust is organising a superb Festival of Northumberland, with free-of-charge entertainment and family fun to make everyone proud of their county and its very special county day. Fun on the quayside in Blyth will include: Entertainment: Traditional Northumbrian music with headline act The Belta Reivers, plus Northumbrian pipes, local bands and traditional dancing. Children's Zone Fun fair rides, arts and crafts workshop and face painting. Refreshments: Licensed bar and food outlets, ice cream,…
Find out more »Haydon Bridge Village Celebrations
One of Northumberland's most passionate celebrators of Northumberland Day, Haydon Bridge Village, will be demonstrating just why it scooped a Northumbie Award in 2017, when it lays on yet another celebration that brings the two halves of its village together and welcome everyone in-between, resident or visitor. This year, the celebrations see the local Shaftoe Trust Wise Academy working with the village's dynamic 'Get it Together Society, to put together planters that will be arranged around the village. All of…
Find out more »Northumberland Day Walk: Pilgrim’s Way to Holy Island (Lindisfarne)
The tides are in our favour for this year's Northumberland Day, allowing for a Northumberland Day walk, guided by Footsteps Northumberland, across the sands to Holy Island, or Lindisfarne as it is also known. This is literally an opportunity to walk in the footsteps of Saints and early Christians, taking the route of the ancient Pilgrim's Way - the route the early Christians would have taken to reach LIndisfarne 1500 years ago. Barefoot walking has become much talked-about in recent…
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