Events

Kielder Design Challenge - Your ideas. Your community. Your future

Mon 9th June 5pm-8.30pm at Falstone Village Hall, Hexham NE48 1AA

Wed 11th June 4pm - 7.30pm at Kielder School, Butteryhaugh, Kielder NE48 1HQ

The Kielder Community Design Challenge, led by The Rural Design Centre, is a unique opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and accelerate ideas that address real challenges in Kielder and the surrounding area.

We are inviting residents, entrepreneurs, creators, and change-makers to develop ideas and solutions that can help address local challenges with potential to transform the community. We are holding two project design and development events in June at Falstone (Mon 9th June) and Kielder (Wed 11th June). Please apply for the event that is most convenient for you.

Challenge areas: Here are some challenge areas that we believe are important.

  • Connection

  • Travel

  • Working and living

  • Visits and stays

  • Dark skies protection and improvement

  • Community assets

  • Other? We want to hear about it!

Final Event - Farming in a Changing Climate

Wed 18th June 2pm - 7.30pm at Kirkley Hall Campus, Kirkley NE20 0AQ

We would like to invite farmers, agri-stakeholders, agencies and rural support organisations to attend our final event where we shall share project findings, hear from experts and discuss what's next for farming in Northumberland.

It is also an opportunity to thank all of those that have contributed their valuable insights and time to the project.

This event is part of an Innovate UK funded project, led by Northumberland County Council with the support of the Rural Design Centre. The Farming in a Changing Climate project is exploring the challenges facing Northumberland farmers.

Find out more about the Farming in a Changing Climate Project at www.ruraldesigncentre.com/farming