June 2016 Winner – Adopt a Singer
June’s Awesome Newcastle took place last Thursday behind the big blue doors at The Village of Useful. Finalists and board members gathered once again to choose the next awesome winner for the month.
Choosing finalists is getting increasingly difficult as there are so many great applications and ideas happening in th..
Sandcastle Maker
Close your eyes and think back to your family beach trips in the summertime. The car packed to the brim with towels, beach umbrellas and the trusty bucket that two-timed as a sandcastle mould and collector for moat water.
Let’s face it, we all thought our castles were the best while we built for hours along the san..
Stellar Displacement
Albert Kong, resident local of San Francisco, is bringing the great outdoors into the big smoke with Stellar Displacement.
Stellar Displacement is a traveling immersive environment in a box truck that transports participants into a forest clearing on a summer night giving them the opportunity to stare up at the sta..
‘Roughly Speaking’
Conal McGuire is giving a voice to Liverpool’s homeless, showcasing their interpretations and interactions with the city through art.
McGuire’s ‘Roughly Speaking’ project, the Nightscape series, highlights some of the most vibrant accounts given by local homeless rough sleepers, specifically showcasing their unique ..
Awesome Newcastle May Winner – To The Edge High Performance Centre
Our May Awesome Newcastle took place last Thursday night at the heavenly Wine Selectors Headquarters in Honeysuckle. All gathered in the private tasting room with a wine in one hand, nibbles in the other and a keen interest to hear all the great things planned for Newcastle. Our awesome board member Lois Donaldson fr..
Class Matter Inc.
If you’ve been following Awesome Newcastle on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, you may have seen ‘The Business of Doing Good’, a Philadelphia based school program teaching primary school children entrepreneurial skills.
Keeping in with the theme of awesome kiddies on track to changing the world, lets talk about Aweso..
Hunting for Awesomeness
We’re on the search for something awesome. Not something ‘ok’, cool, or just interesting enough to get me away from Facebook for 30 seconds. We’re on the hunt for Awesome and you could be the one to show it to us!
If you have a great idea, a can-do attitude and believe your idea can make an impact on a local or even..
Dive Without Barriers
Alesia Koh is using her passion for diving to help Singaporean people living with disabilities through therapeutic and leisure diving experiences.
The underwater program, Dive Without Barriers, is aimed towards people living with aliments such as amputations and spinal injuries. The aim is to alleviate struggles of..
February winner OneWave update!
Since their February Awesome Newcastle win, OneWave have had a huge program re-vamp and are going great guns! For those who do not know about OneWave, it is a non-profit surf community tackling funks like depression, anxiety and bipolar. With a simple recipe of salt-water, surfing and trained volunteers to talk about..
Love wins over cats and views at Awesome Newcastle!
Last night at The Edwards on Parry Street, the Awesome Newcastle crew gathered for the April event. For the first time ever, Awesome Newcastle had all female finalists. The girls were representing!
This month’s finalists were Mel Taylor from Cat Rescue Newcastle, Kim Oakhill from Helpful Love and Alex Allen with a p..