What’s On at Mother Mercy?
Events at Mother Mercy
Make plans with your guide to what’s on at Mother Mercy–featuring bar takeovers, paint & sip, date nights and seasonal events - all hosted with cocktail perks and more…
Heaton Happy Hour
Your midweek just got an upgrade!
Swing by Mother Mercy Heaton and grab 2 cocktails for just £14, Tuesday to Friday, 5–8 pm
Laugh with friends, sip something delicious, and treat yourself to a well-earned midweek pick me up.
No booking needed, come on in
Christmas Candle Making & Cocktails
Candles & Cocktails – A Fun Candle-Making Workshop with a Christmas Twist!
Bring the festive vibes home with this cosy candle-making workshop by Hot Wax! Choosing from a beautiful selection of winter and Christmas scents – all while sipping a complimentary cocktail!
📅 Date & Time: Sunday 14th December | 2pm
⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Venue: Mother Mercy, Heaton
💰 Price: £40 per person (includes all materials + goodie bag)
🔖 Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
Mother Mercy x Thursday
Skip the swipes. Join the vibe. Thursday x Mother Mercy returns this November
We’re teaming up with IRL dating app Thursday for another unforgettable singles night at Mother Mercy Cloth Market, Newcastle’s Top 50 cocktail bar.
Expect great drinks, a buzzing crowd, and the chance to meet people face-to-face. No apps. No ghosting. Just real connections.
Date: 18th December 2025
Time: 7pm
Bar:Mother Mercy Cloth Market
Christmas Candle Making & Cocktails
Candles & Cocktails – A Fun Candle-Making Workshop with an Autumn Twist!
Bring the autumn vibes home with this cosy candle-making workshop by Hot Wax! Create your own candle inspired by warming spices, pumpkin scents, and the glow of the season.
📅 Date & Time: Sunday 21st December | 2pm
⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Venue: Mother Mercy, Heaton
💰 Price: £40 per person (includes all materials + goodie bag)
🔖 Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
Café Mercy x Templespa
Champagne & a luxury Templespa Truffle Facial
Café Mercy is teaming up with Templespa for an afternoon of utter indulgence. Treat yourself to the crème de la crème of facials with the Templespa Truffle range, accompanied with a glass of champagne and a luxury goodie bag.
🍸 What to Expect:
- A luxurious guided facial using the award-winning Templespa Truffle range – the crème de la crème of facial experiences, leaving your skin feeling nourished, radiant, and pampered.
- Discover the skin-loving ingredients behind the Truffle collection – think black summer truffle, champagne, strawberries, and gold – all blended to deliver pure radiance.
- Hands-on time with premium products, plus expert skincare hints & tips you can use at home.
- A glass of champagne included in your ticket to sip, savour, and set the tone for your evening.
- A gorgeous goody bag to take away, so the pampering doesn’t stop when the night ends.
Timings:
6pm till 7:30pm
Wreath making workshop at Mother Mercy Heaton
Join us at Mother Mercy Heaton for a wreath making workshop where you'll design a Christmas wreath with fresh foliage and clean, contemporary styling.
Guided by The Whole Sch Bang, you’ll learn structure, texture and balance—then build a door-envy wreath. Your ticket includes all materials + a complimentary Mother Mercy cocktail on arrival (alcohol-free option available).
Event details
When: Sunday 30th November 2025, 3pm–5pm
Where: Mother Mercy Heaton, 216 Chillingham Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5LP
Includes: All materials, tools and tuition + complimentary cocktail
Skill level: Beginner-friendly
Tickets:£40 — Limited spaces, so booking early is highly recommended
What you’ll learn:
Building a strong base and wiring techniques
Selecting seasonal greens for shape, depth and longevity
Modern finishing (ribbon, accents, clean lines)
Who it’s for
Makers, first-timers and anyone after a contemporary wreath making workshop in Heaton.
Good to know
Wear something you don’t mind brushing against foliage/sap.
Arrive at least 15 minutes early to enjoy your complimentary cocktail.
Book now for the 3pm–5pm session on Sunday 30th November at Mother Mercy Heaton. Tickets cost £40 and include materials plus a complimentary cocktail.
SOLD OUT! Wreath making workshop at Mother Mercy Heaton
SOLD OUT! Join us at Mother Mercy Heaton for a wreath making workshop where you'll design a Christmas wreath with fresh foliage and clean, contemporary styling.
Guided by The Whole Sch Bang, you’ll learn structure, texture and balance—then build a door-envy wreath. Your ticket includes all materials + a complimentary Mother Mercy cocktail on arrival (alcohol-free option available).
Event details
When: Sunday 30th November 2025, 12pm–2pm
Where: Mother Mercy Heaton, 216 Chillingham Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5LP
Includes: All materials, tools and tuition + complimentary cocktail
Skill level: Beginner-friendly
Tickets:£40 — Limited spaces, so booking early is highly recommended
What you’ll learn:
Building a strong base and wiring techniques
Selecting seasonal greens for shape, depth and longevity
Modern finishing (ribbon, accents, clean lines)
Who it’s for
Makers, first-timers and anyone after a contemporary wreath making workshop in Heaton.
Good to know
Wear something you don’t mind brushing against foliage/sap.
Arrive at least 15 minutes early to enjoy your complimentary cocktail.
Book now for the 12pm–2pm session on Sunday 30th November at Mother Mercy Heaton. Tickets cost £40 and include materials plus a complimentary cocktail.
Christmas Candle Making & Cocktails
Candles & Cocktails – A Fun Candle-Making Workshop with an festive Twist!
Join us at Mother Mercy, Fenwick Newcastle on Thursday 27 November for a fun and creative candle-making experience!
Enjoy a complimentary cocktail while you hand-pour your own scented soy wax candle in an amber glass jar, choosing from a selection of gorgeous fragrances. Guided by Ash, the founder of Hot Wax, you’ll leave with your own handmade candle, a goodie bag with some little treats inside, and some great memories!
📅 Date & Time: Sunday 21st December | 2pm
⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Venue: Mother Mercy, Heaton
💰 Price: £40 per person (includes all materials + goodie bag)
🔖 Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
Christmas Candle Making & Cocktails
Candles & Cocktails – A Fun Candle-Making Workshop with an Autumn Twist!
Bring the autumn vibes home with this cosy candle-making workshop by Hot Wax! Create your own candle inspired by warming spices, pumpkin scents, and the glow of the season.
📅 Date & Time: Sunday 23rd November | 2pm
⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Venue: Mother Mercy, Heaton
💰 Price: £40 per person (includes all materials + goodie bag)
🔖 Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
Mother Mercy x Thursday
Skip the swipes. Join the vibe. Thursday x Mother Mercy returns this November
We’re teaming up with IRL dating app Thursday for another unforgettable singles night at Mother Mercy Cloth Market, Newcastle’s Top 50 cocktail bar.
Expect great drinks, a buzzing crowd, and the chance to meet people face-to-face. No apps. No ghosting. Just real connections.
Date: 20th November 2025
Time: 7pm
Bar:Mother Mercy Cloth Market
Mother Mercy Heaton x Templespa
A Mediterranean Afternoon Escape with Templespa
Mother Mercy Heaton is teaming up with Temple Spa for an afternoon of luxury, relaxation, and sparkle.
Take a pause from the festive rush and indulge in something truly different this season. Whether it’s a catch-up with friends, a mother–daughter treat, or a well-deserved moment for yourself, this is an afternoon you'll want to pop in your calendar.
Set in our Mother Mercy neighbourhood cocktail bar, you’ll enjoy a Templespa “Taste of the Mediterranean” facial journey with a festive twist.
🌿 Your Afternoon Includes:
A guided Mediterranean-inspired facial using Templespa’s award-winning products — designed to nourish, refresh, and leave your skin glowing.
The chance to explore the Templespa Christmas gift collection — perfect for inspired, indulgent gifting not available on the high street!
Expert skincare tips & tricks to carry into your own at-home routine.
A beautifully crafted cocktail or mocktail included in your ticket to complement your experience.
A luxury goody bag to take away, so your glow goes with you.
✨ Perfect as a unique festive catch-up, a pre-Christmas shopping treat, or a seasonal ritual of self-care.
Where & When:
Mother Mercy Heaton, on Sunday 16th November between 2pm - 3.30pm
Mother Mercy Heaton x Templespa
A Mediterranean Afternoon Escape with Templespa
Mother Mercy Heaton is teaming up with Temple Spa for an afternoon of luxury, relaxation, and sparkle.
Take a pause from the festive rush and indulge in something truly different this season. Whether it’s a catch-up with friends, a mother–daughter treat, or a well-deserved moment for yourself, this is an afternoon you'll want to pop in your calendar.
Set in our Mother Mercy neighbourhood cocktail bar, you’ll enjoy a Templespa “Taste of the Mediterranean” facial journey with a festive twist.
🌿 Your Afternoon Includes:
A guided Mediterranean-inspired facial using Templespa’s award-winning products — designed to nourish, refresh, and leave your skin glowing.
The chance to explore the Templespa Christmas gift collection — perfect for inspired, indulgent gifting not available on the high street!
Expert skincare tips & tricks to carry into your own at-home routine.
A beautifully crafted cocktail or mocktail included in your ticket to complement your experience.
A luxury goody bag to take away, so your glow goes with you.
✨ Perfect as a unique festive catch-up, a pre-Christmas shopping treat, or a seasonal ritual of self-care.
Where & When:
Mother Mercy Heaton, on Sunday 16th November between 12pm - 1.30pm
Christmas Candle Making & Cocktails
Candles & Cocktails – A Fun Candle-Making Workshop with an Autumn Twist!
Bring the autumn vibes home with this cosy candle-making workshop by Hot Wax! Create your own candle inspired by warming spices, pumpkin scents, and the glow of the season.
📅 Date & Time: Sunday 9th Novermber | 2pm
⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Venue: Mother Mercy, Heaton
💰 Price: £40 per person (includes all materials + goodie bag)
🔖 Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
Paint & Sip at Mother Mercy Fenwick
Brush in one hand, Margarita in the other, join us on Sunday 2nd November 2025 at Mother Mercy Fenwick for an evening of Paint & Sip with Patrón.
During the evening you will paint a Patrón bottle with Emma from Embr Studio, as well a guided tequila tasting session.
In true Mother Mercy style, each guest will be served a complimentary Margarita to sip as you create your own hand-painted Patrón bottle to take home.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Complimentary Margarita
Guided bottle-painting session with Emma at Embr Studio
All materials provided
Tequila tasting hosted by Patrón
WHERE AND WHEN
2nd November 2025
6pm - 7:30pm
Mother Mercy Heaton
Paint and Sip with complimentary Margarita
Brush in one hand, Margarita in the other, join us on Sunday 2nd November 2025 at Mother Mercy Heaton for a special Paint & Sip, "Day of the Dead: edition.
In the style of Día de los Muertos, you will paint a Patrón bottle with Emma from Embr Studio, as well a guided tequila tasting session.
In true Mother Mercy style, each guest will be served a complimentary Margarita to sip as you create your own hand-painted Patrón bottle to take home.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Complimentary Margarita
Guided bottle-painting session with Emma at Embr Studio
All materials provided
Tequila tasting hosted by Patrón
WHERE AND WHEN
2nd November 2025
12:30pm - 2pm
Mother Mercy Heaton
Mother Mercy Fright Night x Thursday
Forget swiping in the shadows — this Halloween, we’re turning up the lights (and the charm) at Mother Mercy Cloth Market with IRL dating app Thursday.
Expect spine-tingling cocktails, a drop-dead gorgeous crowd, and conversations to die for. Who knows… you might just meet your boo.
Date: 30th October 2025
Time: 7pm
Bar:Mother Mercy Cloth Market
Tickets: [Stay Tuned]
Mother Mercy X Patrón: Advanced Tequila Workshop
Mother Mercy X Patrón: Advanced Tequila Workshop at Cloth Market.
Tequila connoisseurs, this one’s for you! Guided by Patrón’s brand ambassadors, you’ll taste, test and explore what makes truly great tequila — from traditional small-batch methods to the world of additives. Along the way, you’ll discover how Patrón is crafted authentically, by hand, and without shortcuts.
Looking for a unique date night, or a memorable evening with your gang? This is it.
📅 Wednesday 15th October, 5-7pm
📍Cloth Market
🍸Feature pours and specials all night long!
No ticket needed - simply make a table reservation
Mother Mercy x The Absent Ear
The Absent Ear, a multi award winning, delightfully disorientating speakeasy concept bar, hidden in the heart of Glasgows’ Merchant City is heading to Mother Mercy Cloth Market in Newcastle upon Tyne for a one-night only bar takeover.
This is one night you’re not going to want to miss!
What to expect? The Absent Ear is inspired by the late, great Vincent Van Gogh, their theme celebrates his artistic legacy with a healthy splash of creativity and just a drop of his madness.
Date: Sunday 12th October
Time: 6pm - 10pm
Location: Mother Mercy Cloth Market
Lingo Exchange Evening
Looking for a laid-back night of good chats, good vibes, and new faces?
Café Mercy x Lingo Exchange will be hosting an evening where language lovers and curious minds come together to practise, connect, and have a laugh.
No pressure, no lessons - just real convos, great company, and a free welcome drink to get things going!
Pumpkin Painting
Cocktails in one hand, painting pen in the other - let’s give pumpkins the glow up they deserve.
Available at Mother Mercy Heaton throughout October (Sunday - Thursday).
An Evening with Angus Mason
We wanted you to be among the very first to know about Mother Mercy & Friends - our new series celebrating the bartenders, creatives and collaborators who inspire us.
We’d love you to be there for the launch event!
For our very first edition, we’re handing over the reins to Angus Mason of Newcastle Cocktail Kitchen – long-time Mercy regular, fresh fruit fanatic, and the creative force behind some of the North East’s most exciting drinks projects.
Expect a menu of autumn bangers, a playful approach to serious ingredients, and a Sunday night atmosphere that feels part house party, part cocktail masterclass. Think board games, duck à l’orange popcorn, Earth, Wind & Fire… and some seriously good drinks.
Date: Sunday 5th October
Time: From 4pm
Location: Mother Mercy Heaton
Date
Café Mercy x Gnocchi Gnights.
For one day only, our friends over at Gnocchi Gnights are taking over Café Mercy (our Grey Street bar) with a line-up that’ll have you twirling forks and clinking glasses. Walk-ins only.
Candles & Cocktails
Candles & Cocktails – A Fun Candle-Making Workshop with an Autumn Twist!
Bring the autumn vibes home with this cosy candle-making workshop by Hot Wax! Create your own candle inspired by warming spices, pumpkin scents, and the glow of the season.
📅 Date & Time: Sunday 28 September | 2pm
⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Venue: Mother Mercy, Heaton
💰 Price: £40 per person (includes all materials + goodie bag)
🔖 Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
Mother Mercy x Thursday
IRL Dating Event with Thursday at Mother Mercy Cloth Market!
Back by popular demand (yep, love is in the air 👀), we’re hosting another Thursday event on 25th September, at 7pm.
Join us for great cocktails, amazing conversations, no DMs and no ghosting.
Just good vibes and the chance to actually meet people face-to-face. Who knows… your soulmate might just be waiting for you at Mother Mercy Cloth Market.
Date: 25th September 2025
Time: 7pm
Bar:Mother Mercy Cloth Market
Tickets: [Stay Tuned]
Bar Takeover: Speak in Code
For one night only, Speak in Code are joining us from Manchester, bringing their sharp style and no-fuss approach to world-class cocktails.
We’re buzzing to welcome one of the UK’s most respected bars into our basement bar at Cloth Market for a Sunday night bar takeover you won’t want to miss.
You know the score, reservations can be made here.
Mother Mercy x Thursday
IRL dating event with Thursday!
Our first event with IRL dating app Thursday was a sell out and we’re ready to do it all over again. We’re buzzing to be working with Thursday to bring singles together in real life. No DMs, no ghosting, just great cocktails and amazing conversations.
Who knows… you might just meet your soulmate at Mother Mercy
Candles & Cocktails
Candles & Cocktails – A Fun Candle-Making Workshop with Hot Wax and Mother Mercy Heaton!
Join Hot Wax for a fun and creative candle-making experience including a complimentary cocktail while you hand-pour your own scented soy wax candle in an amber glass jar, choosing from a selection of gorgeous fragrances. Guided by Ash, the founder of Hot Wax, you’ll leave with your own handmade candle, a goodie bag with some little treats inside, and some great memories!
📅 Date & Time: Sunday 24 August | 2pm
⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Venue: Mother Mercy Heaton
💰 Price: £40 per person (includes all materials + goodie bag)
🔖 Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
Candles & Cocktails
Candles & Cocktails – A Fun Candle-Making Workshop with Hot Wax and Mother Mercy at Fenwick!
Join Hot Wax for a fun and creative candle-making experience including a complimentary cocktail while you hand-pour your own scented soy wax candle in an amber glass jar, choosing from a selection of gorgeous fragrances. Guided by Ash, the founder of Hot Wax, you’ll leave with your own handmade candle, a goodie bag with some little treats inside, and some great memories!
📅 Date & Time: Thursday 21 August | 6pm
⏳ Duration: 1.5 hours
📍 Venue: Mother Mercy, Fenwick Newcastle
💰 Price: £40 per person (includes all materials + goodie bag)
🔖 Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable
Craft & Sip
Join us for an evening of mindful making, with a focus on gratitude bracelets accompanied by world class cocktails served from Mother Mercy at Fenwick.
In collaboration with Emma Hedley, this event will give you the opportunity to make gratitude bracelets out of colourful, recycled, semi precious and vintage beads.
The session will begin with a short journaling practice, before mindfully selecting and making your beautiful bracelet.
Print & Sip
Love art and cocktails? Come along and join us for an afternoon of press printing with The Peacock and the Printmaker at Mother Mercy Heaton, on Sunday 10th August.
During the event, this is your time to discover how to design, carve and print your own vibrant landscape prints, as well as exploring how to create different textures and use colour to bring your design to life and take away your gorgeous prints to hang at home and gift to loved ones.
Cut, Collage & Sip
Café Mercy X @sheldo_draws: Matisse-inspired expressive illustration workshop on 6th August 2025.
Mother Mercy x Thursday
IRL dating event with Thursday!
Our first event with IRL dating app Thursday was a sell out and we’re ready to do it all over again. We’re buzzing to be working with Thursday to bring singles together in real life. No DMs, no ghosting, just great cocktails and amazing conversations.
Who knows… you might just meet your soulmate at Mother Mercy
Mexican Bingo with free margarita
La Lotería — Cazcabel’s spicy cousin of bingo — is heading to Mother Mercy 🍹🃏
Think bingo’s boring? In this game, each player gets a hand-drawn board with 16 images. As the host calls out each card, you’ll mark off your board — and if you’re the first to shout “¡Lotería!”, you win a prize!
Expect big energy, hand-illustrated cards, and plenty of Cazcabel cocktails to keep the fiesta flowing. Plus, everyone who joins us on the night will be treated to a margarita on the house!
