Friction Bouldering

Friction Bouldering Friction Bouldering is Gateshead’s first inclusive climbing gym for beginners through to pros.
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15/06/2026

Some lovely flowy blocs today for our Arch Out re-set

As always thank you to our amazing setters for putting up some absolute bangers 💪🏼🧗🏼‍♀️
Come down and give them a whirl 🌀

11/06/2026

🧗Steep reset🧗‍♀️

Big thanks as always to our setters for bringing us an amazing new set and for putting up with our silly ideas.

Come on down and see why Leon was pulling some very interesting faces.

This Month
02/06/2026

This Month

Another amazing Season Send Off, we hope you all enjoyed yourself as much as we did! Big thank you to all of our Custome...
01/06/2026

Another amazing Season Send Off, we hope you all enjoyed yourself as much as we did!

Big thank you to all of our Customers, Setters and Staff that make this all possible!❤️

Thank you to for capturing the event for us 📸

Thank you to our sponsors

🚨Change in opening hours🚨There will be a few changes in our opening hours next week due to upcoming bank holidays and ou...
22/05/2026

🚨Change in opening hours🚨

There will be a few changes in our opening hours next week due to upcoming bank holidays and our long awaited Season Send off!!

Monday 25th May 10am - 8pm

Thursday 28th May 10am - 8pm

Friday 29th May 12pm - 10pm

These slightly altered hours are to allow our setters and staff to make sure that everything is in place for what is set to be one amazing event!!! We can’t wait to see you all here.

18/05/2026

Overcome those Monday blues with our brand new Cave set 🧗

Big thanks to our setters for bringing great vibes and climbs to the centre this morning.

14/05/2026

Little bit out Arch out action from todays re-set 🧗🏼‍♀️

Some amazing problems as always from our setting team, and a bit of help on the hard stuff from our resident strong man 🏋🏼

As always, let us know what you think 🤷🏻‍♀️

At the end of the month we will be hosting another one of our Season Send Off competitions 🌅.This time round we will hav...
08/05/2026

At the end of the month we will be hosting another one of our Season Send Off competitions 🌅.

This time round we will have some extra special guests coming along from to supply you all with plenty of energy to make it through the night.

As usual there will be 25 competition style climbs catered to all abilities.

We will announce our top 3 winners from each category on the evening at 9pm. Then our prize winners will follow, being selected at random so anyone can win!!!

You’ve got to be in it to win it, so get yourself down for a fun filled evening of climbing, pizza, good music and beers 🍻 .

*reduced £8 entry from 5pm*

There will be no free hot drinks on this day due to the competition.

May Re-set schedule!We are looking forward to another at the end of this month, this time around we will be working wi...
04/05/2026

May Re-set schedule!

We are looking forward to another at the end of this month, this time around we will be working with our friends over for this event!
More information to follow…

30/04/2026

Strong scenes today from our setters on our UFO set💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Just a reminder to those who worry about failing on climbs that falling is a part of climbing 🤩

Thanks to for your camera skills this morning 🌅

Address

1B Saltmeadows Road
Gateshead
NE83AH

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 10pm
Tuesday 10am - 10pm
Wednesday 10am - 10pm
Thursday 10am - 10pm
Friday 10am - 10pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 10am - 8pm

Telephone

+441916767421

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