Events Calendar

Ongoing
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3

Blodeuwedd Untold by Jo Blake

Royal and Derngate 19-21 Guildhall Rd, Northampton

Captured in the pages of a medieval book, the ancient myth of Blodeuwedd describes a woman made out of flowers who was turned into an owl as punishment for adultery. But who was this woman before being confined to the page?

£5.00
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3

Mary Hart – Special Moments Through Travel and Stitch

78 Derngate 78-82 Derngate, Northampton

Mary Hart returns to 78 Derngate with her second solo exhibition of textile art. She is inspired by the texture, architecture and landscapes she sees, both at home and on travels around the globe. Mary's multi-layered artworks use different fabrics, stitching, dyeing, beading and many other techniques to achieve the desired result of her inspiration. Works in the exhibition are ... Read More

Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3

Hoards: A Hidden History of Ancient Britain

Peterborough Museum Priestgate, Peterborough

FREE (except for special event days) A British Museum and Salisbury Museum Partnership Exhibition, supported by the Dorset Foundation.  Following on from the success of the Hoards display at the British Museum in 2016, this partnership exhibition has visited museums across the UK as part of the British Museum's National Programmes to display and highlight prehistoric, Roman, early medieval and later hoards. Peterborough is the last ... Read More

Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3

October Half Term Holiday Trail

Nene Park

Collect a trail sheet  from the Visitor Centre and then hunt for clues as you walk around Ferry Meadows.  Return to the Visitor Centre to claim your prize.Available every day during the school holidays 10am - 3:30pm £1 per sheet. No need to book just come to the visitor centre during school holidays.

£1

Autumn Festival

Nene Park

Come and join us for a week long of activities over the October half term school holiday. Lots of different activities for all the family to enjoy and get involved in. Activities include: Tuesday 22 October - Fentons Herbology workshop and Lantern making workshop Wednesday 23 October  - Wild Wednesday and Climbing wall Thursday 24 October - Lantern making workshop ... Read More

Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3

Parent and Toddler Ice Skating

Beckworth Emporium 120 -140 Glebe Rd, Mears Ashby Northants,

A great opportunity for parents to socialise with other parents and young children (0-5 years) during school hours. We have also added 12-weekend sessions this year. These sessions are restricted to Parent and Toddlers (0-5 years) only. An opportunity to build confidence without accomplished skaters on the rink. Pushchairs are allowed on the ice during these sessions. Our team provide ... Read More

Pumpkin Hunt

Castle Ashby Gardens Castle Ashby, Northampton

Come and search for the pumpkins in our Gardens! But watch out there may be some spooky goings on! Normal Garden admission prices apply ON-LINE BOOKING ONLY – Click this link to purchase tickets – Buy Pumpkin Hunt 2019 Tickets

£3

October Half Term at Stanwick Lakes

Stanwick Lakes

Join us for a jam-packed week of Halloween activities! Creepy Trail, Face painting, Halloween Crafts, Visits from birds of prey and creepy reptiles as well as our annual Spooky Scarecrow Lantern Walk.  

Spooky Skulls Halloween Trail

Wildlife Trust Nene Wetlands Visitor Centre Rushden Lakes, Rushden

Pick up a trail sheet from the visitor centre and head off around the lake in search of spooky animal skulls. Identify them all, bring your sheet back and collect a prize! £2 per trail.

£2

Halloween Trail

Barnwell Country Park Barnwell Road, Oundle

Collect a quiz sheet from the Kingfisher Café for a fun, self-led quiz trail around the park. Return to the café to check your answers and collect your prize. £2 per quiz.

Autumn Fair

Delapre Abbey Abbey Cottage, Delapré Abbey

Celebrate all things autumn!!

Hallowe’en Trail

Lyveden Near Oundle, Northamptonshire

Search the garden landscape for pumpkins on our Hallowe'en trail or see what's happening in our 'spooky' Family Den. This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.

Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Rainbow Café

Rainbow Café

Stanwick Lakes

Movement to sing and dance. For children under 5 enjoy free Hodeaway entrance before and after the sessions. Please book. Tel: 01933 625522.

£3
Autumn Colour Walk

Autumn Colour Walk

Nene Park

Join our Visitor Warden: Sophie for a walk around the park looking at the colours of autumn and how the wildlife in the park is preparing for winter. We will have 2 sessions: 10:30 - 11:30 for anyone aged 16yrs and older 13:30 - 14:30 for all the family a place must be booked for everyone taking part. £2 per ... Read More

£2

Autumn Stories

Nene Park

We are pleased to welcome renouned local storyteller, writer and ecologist Malcolm Busby to our Autumn Festival. Malcolm will be running story telling sessions and workshops throughout the Sunday of our Autumn Festival weekend. Topics may vary, from Story walks and sensory stories to natural tales and Weird and Ghostly tales, some will be indoors and some outdoors (so please dress ... Read More

£2

Apples Galore

Nene Park

Stamford Community Orchard Group (SCOG) are running a free whole day drop-in event on processing and preserving apples and other tree fruit.So if you have any fruit trees come and learn how to process and preserve the fruit as juice, cider, vinegar, wine,chutney etc. There will be free samples and a chance to start preserving your own fruit using our ... Read More

Autumn Colour Walk

Autumn Colour Walk

Nene Park

Join our Visitor Warden: Sophie for a walk around the park looking at the colours of autumn and how the wildlife in the park is preparing for winter. We will have 2 sessions: 10:30 - 11:30 for anyone aged 16yrs and older 13:30 - 14:30 for all the family a place must be booked for everyone taking part. £2 per ... Read More

£2