Parklings diary of events

 
31.10.2019           -              Halloween Party

• Meet at the Village Hall at 6pm. Children in fancy dress. Must be accompanied by parent / guardian.
• Competition for carved pumpkin (LED lights please, no candles / flames)
• Fancy dress competition
• Trick or Treating around pre-arranged households
• Hot dogs and party at the Village Hall afterwards
• IMPORTANT - please can every child bring a homemade drawing / letter or gift of some sort, as we want to be able to thank every household that allows us to visit to go trick or treating. We ensure that one child is allocated to each household to say thank you on behalf of the group at the end of the visit to that house.

 
8.11.2019             -              Pottery Painting

• Please book on in advance by emailing [email protected]
• 6-7pm at the Village Hall
• Children will be subsidised but if they chose a larger item, parents / guardians will need to pay the difference

 
16.11.2019           -              Bulb planting at The Park / Village Hall

• Meet at 2pm at The Village Hall
• Come warmly dressed and bring a trowel / spade / gardening gloves
• Stamp design sheets to be handed out - best designs get made into our Christmas Stamps!

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23.11.2019           -              Mountain biking skills / technical training by Mission Mountain biking

• Trip to the Peak district for our teenagers with MTB skills

 
7.12.2019             -              Christmas Coffee morning at the Village Hall

• 10 - 12pm
• A chance for our youngsters to serve drinks and baking to visitors
• There will also be a fundraising stall - please bring any donations - we've already got some amazing Christmas Knitting to sell!
• Our Christmas Postal service will be launched as per usual with deliveries every few days throughout December within the Kilnwick area.

 
 
14.12.2019           -              Tophill Low Nature Reserve Visit

• Educational visit - Anne showing us around
• 1-3pm meeting at Tophill Low. Please let us know in advance by emailing [email protected] if you intend to come

 
18.1.2019             -              Lion Learners Animal Handling and Education session

• 1pm to 2pm at the Village Hall
• A very exciting session - numbers limited - please email theparkkilnwick.org to book onto this activity.

 
31.1.2019             -              Bat detecting / star gazing and looking at our bird box camera

• Evening activity - bring a torch!
• 6pm Friday evening
• Meet at the entrance to the park

 
15.2.2019             -              Crafting at the Village Hall

• 2pm to 4pm
• Tie dye T-shirts, pebble painting, knitting and more

 
7.3.2019               -              Wildlife promotion at The Park

• Erecting new Insect Hotels, filling up our big pallet Insect Hotel and bird feeders and clearing around the pond and wildflower meadow ready for planting
• Come in wellies and come warmly dressed. Gardening gloves, spades, rakes and trowels needed.

 
28.3.2019             -              Wildflower seeding

• Time to resow the wildflower meadow and plant plug plants around the pond!