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The Tyneside Cinema is at the beginning of a new era.

Having nearly closed our doors in 2023 due to a post-Covid slump in audiences, a significant rise in the cost of living and soaring energy bills, the Tyneside was saved by more than £100,000 in donations as part of our Love Tyneside campaign.

We wouldn’t be here without you and can’t thank you enough for your support, which has given us time to secure new investment that safeguards our immediate future.

The Tyneside remains a loss-making organisation, and we still need to raise £60,000 every year to survive, stay independent, and continue to serve the communities of Newcastle and the North East. Anything we raise beyond this will help us fulfil our three major charitable ambitions:

1. Delivering programmes working in and with our local communities, finding ways to develop new audiences, including outdoor screenings in the heart of North East communities, expanding our partnership programmes with a variety of community groups, relaunching Dementia Friendly Cinema, and more.
2. A commitment to talent development, creating a pipeline for working class young people into industry via a new Talent Hub supporting the creative development of young working-class people in the North East, enhancing creative opportunities and developing the great creative minds of tomorrow.
3. Maintaining, investing and securing our Grade II listed heritage building for current and future generations, from continued free heritage tours, uplifting the front of the cinema and a makeover of High Friar Lane, to maintaining the Tyneside’s original features and reducing our carbon footprint.

You can visit us, hire us, or become a Friend of Tyneside Cinema in order to support what we do, or become a Supporter of Tyneside Cinema by donating here:

Tyneside Cinema’s purpose is to enrich and change lives through film.  

Tyneside Cinema is a charity, and is the North East’s only full-time independent cultural cinema. We host a vibrant public programme of films and events by filmmakers and artists from around the world that is unavailable anywhere else, giving audiences access to the full range of the art of cinema. Housed in a beautiful Grade II listed heritage building, we are the UK’s only surviving newsreel theatre still operating as a cinema.

We pride ourselves in being an accessible and inclusive venue, our commitment to which is reflected in a number of ways:

• A diverse, dynamic and representative film programme, offering a line-up of independent, foreign language and issue-driven cinema not available anywhere else, giving audiences in the North East access to the full range of the art of cinema.
• A long history of delivering award-winning learning and participation programmes for children, young people and adults that aim to widen access for those underrepresented in our audience and the wider creative industries, providing a platform for their voices to be heard.
• A commitment to being open to communities and fostering and developing talent.
• A commitment to maintaining and improving a beautiful, Grade II listed heritage building for current and future generations, which is accessible via free guided tours, a heritage exhibition and archive screenings.
• A variety of community screenings and events throughout the year.
• A wide range of accessibly priced screening programmes, including Relaxed Cinema, Family Film Club, Silver Screen (for the over 60s), and Parent and Baby screenings.
• Discounted tickets for unwaged audiences, as well as refugees and asylum seekers, at a rate not offered by other UK cinemas.
• Heavily discounted tickets for screenings at any time of the week for audiences aged 16-24 though our Young Tyneside scheme, which is free to join.
• Free and heavily discounted tickets and food and drink discounts through our Friends scheme.
• Tyneside Cinema is a Real Living Wage Employer, and fundamentally believes that as a charity it is crucial we value staff and their livelihoods.
• Tyneside Cinema is signed up to the Good Work Pledge.