Tie dying and card making were order of the day today! More details on the Parkligns section of the website. 

A great turn out to meet a wide variety of animals! Full details on our Parklings page!

Last Saturday's Parklings Christmas Coffee Morning was a huge success - thanks to everyone who supported the event. A great fundraiser for Village Hall funds.

The Christmas post is in full flow now.. Parklings delivering around Kilnwick area until the 23rd December.

Unfortunately this weekends Parklings trip to TopHill Low Nature Reserve is cancelled (the Reserve is flooded).

The Parklings gathered today and planted 1000 Daffodils around Kilnwick - some at The Park, some at the Village Hall and some on Tibby Lane corner. They will look fabulous next spring.

Here is our young Trustee (and youth representative) in action!

For anyone wishing to make a donation to our charity, we have a new online donations page here: https://wonderful.org/charity/theparkkilnwick

Easy to create a fundraising page, add gift aid to donations and so forth.
Many thanks, from The Park, Kilnwick

More details about each event will be announced nearer to each event... but the diary of events is:
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 theparkkilnwick@gmail.com
• 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!

 
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 theparkkilnwick@gmail.com 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!

We are a hardy crowd and the rainy start didn't put us off! We had great fun with a variety of sports day races, the last one including the parents! More photos on the "Parklings" part of the website.

Next 2 events for Kilnwick Parklings...

Saturday 24th August 2pm onwards - we are going to be active and creative at the beach - its a beach outing 🦀

Saturday 31st August 2pm onwards - Sports Day at The Park (with some insect collecting fun afterwards)... 🌳

If you would like more details, please email as us at theparkkilnwick@gmail.com
​

We had 19 young people (plus adults) attend our Parklings session today. We had a very productive session planting a new Village Hall planter with an evergreen shrub and annual plants. It looks very smart. We also cleared the old rotten planters away and made the ground level and re-seeded with grass seed.

After that, each Parkling created their own "Garden in a Tray" with decorations. We can't wait to see how they evolve as the grass and cress seeds grow! There were some fantastic RHS "Chelsea" inspired ideas. 

After a cup of hot chocolate, we went and ran off some steam at The Park, before the heavens opened and we all dispersed to dry off!

If travelling to The Park please come on bicycles if possible and if driving, please try and car share.
We've planted 2,000 trees at The Park and we are trying to enhance biodiversity. In addition to this, we are trying to minimize the impact of car parking to the residents of Kilnwick (particularly those residing on Main Street near the public footpath access to The Park).
If you are organising a party or a group meet up at The Park please can you contact us (either via Facebook or via our email at theparkkilnwick@gmail.com) so we can offer alternative parking options.
Thank you for your understanding. 🌳🚴‍♀️🌳