City Stadium Wildflower Meadow Seeding

Join Wild Ouseburn to seed a new wildflower meadow at City Stadium!

In 2024 during a Wild Ouseburn Sunset Bat Survey, Common Pipistrelle bats were recorded feeding over a section of grassland near Warwick Street, which was part of Urban Green’s ‘Let it Grow’ campaign. This was the first time bats had been recorded feeding over this part of the City Stadium during surveys!

Wildflower meadows and grasslands rich in biodiversity are an incredibly important habitats, but are increasingly rare in the Lower Ouseburn Valley. Their plants provide nectar for pollinators, attracting insects for Sand Martins, Swifts and bats, and the long vegetation offers shelter for small mammals – and a hunting ground for Ouseburn’s Kestrels.

You can read a report on Ouseburn’s Butterflies by Mike Jeffries to explore how vital these habitats are here.

Working with Newcastle City Council and the Ouseburn Trust, the Wild Ouseburn project has been given the opportunity to restore some of this grassland habitat, to create new wildflower-rich meadows on part of the City Stadium for nature and people to enjoy.

Join us to seed this new wildflower meadow and be part of it’s colourful future!

Everyone is welcome! Just bring a water bottle, a coat if it’s wet and shoes you don’t mind getting a little muddy.

Saturday 29th March | 1pm – 3pm

Meet at the brightly coloured shipping container behind The Ship Inn for a 1pm start.

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This wildflower meadow creation has been funded by Wild Intrigue, and supported by Newcastle City Council, Ouseburn Trust and Newcastle Nature Networks.