Shieldfield Art Works (or ‘SAW’) is an arts organisation based in Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne. SAW is an artist-led organisation committed to creativity, theological critique and community engagement. Through making art, growing, cooking, discussion and learning, we seek positive change for the welfare of the city, in order to seek out ways of supporting and enabling social transformation.
Decolonisation and post-growth economies
Funding Opportunities
The Centre for Human Ecology
The Centre for Human Ecology (CHE) exists to stimulate and support radical change towards ecological and social justice through education, action and research. The CHE draws upon a holistic, multidisciplinary understanding of our unravelling environmental and social systems to create learning for being fully human in community and solidarity.
The Coping Mechanism
The Coping Mechanism monitors how people are coping with the pandemic both with positive pro-social coping (resilience) and negative anti-social coping (defendedness) and how financial stability & racial privilege impact coping.
The Feel Better Project
Domestic Abuse is not inevitable. Every year, globally, millions of people suffer and lose their lives as a result of this epidemic. At The Feel Better Project we use evidence and research to understand the causes that lead to violence, and what steps we can all take to preventing this tragic cycle.
The Mobile Apothecary
A collaboration between Phytology, Rasheeqa Ahmad of Hedge Herbs, and a growing network of talented volunteers, Mobile Apothecary supports underserved communities in the locality with good quality, homegrown and communally-made herbal remedies.
The NewBridge Project
The NewBridge Project is an active artist-led community that supports artists, curators and local communities. NewBridge produces a public programme that is responsive to the environment in which it exists, and that places community-centred, experimental, collaborative and socially conscious programming at its heart.
The UBI Lab Network
In 2020, UBI Lab has become a worldwide network of researchers, activists and campaigners exploring the potential of a Universal Basic Income.