Wednesday 19 March (14)

👸 Filming Tour and Bridgerton Afternoon Tea 2025 at Wrest Park, Silsoe - 2025


Time: 13:30

👸 Channel your inner Queen Charlotte, or Lady Diana in this fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of filming spots at Wrest Park.

DATES
▪️Wednesday and Saturdays only
▪️05 Feb - 29 March  2025

TIMES
The tour will start at 13.30pm which lasts one hour, afternoon tea will start at 14.30pm.

👸 ABOUT
Featured in a range of TV series from The Crown, Antiques Roadshow and the Netflix hit Bridgerton, Wrest Park has been the back-drop for some of TVs most dramatic moments including the pivotal moment in Bridgerton's plot, when character Kate, Anthony's love interest, was stung by a bee.

💃 POSE IN COSTUMES
Throughout the guided tour, there will be chance to strike a pose in costumes from the Georgia era - and become your own star!

☕️ AFTERNOON TEA - 2.30pm
Following the Filming Tour, head to our dining room for an Afternoon Tea fit for a Duke or Duchess, a perfect chance to catch up on all the ton's gossip.

ℹ️ PLEASE NOTE
Please note the maximum group size for each tour is 25 and the group discount only applies to the admission ticket, on days the Filming Tour and Afternoon Tea are taking place.

🎟
COST
▪️Member (Adult): £41.50
▪️Adult: £46.50

✅️ HOW DO I BOOK?
▪️Click the event link which will take you onto Wrest Park's website & booking page.
▪️Press book tickets.
▪️Choose a date on a Wednesday or Saturday between 5th Feb - 29th March 2025.

🎪 Circus Zyair 2025 in Milton Keynes


🎪 Doors will open 45 mins prior to the performance time. The show is 90mins with a short interval.

DATES & TIMES:
▪️Wednesday 19th March 2025
– 7.30pm
▪️Thursday 20th March 2025 – 5pm & 7.30pm
▪️Friday 21st March 2025– 5pm & 7.30pm
▪️Saturday 22nd March 2025 – 11am, 3pm & 6pm
▪️Sunday 23rd March 2025– 11am & 3pm

💥 SPECIAL OFFER
Use code FB50 to get a discount on 19th or 20th March only.

♿️ WHEELCHAIR USERS
When you purchase your tickets online, please select how many wheelchair users are in your group. This will help us to arrange enough wheelchair spaces at each performance. Please note that wheelchair spaces are limited, and we may not be able to seat other members of the booking with the wheelchair.

👶CAN PUSHCHAIRS BE TAKEN INSIDE?
Fire regulations prohibit prams and pushchairs from being taken into the circus big top. There is a small area to leave them in the foyer at your own risk.

🎟 TICKET INFORMATION - You can purchase your ticket via the event link.
Everybody aged two years old and above requires a ticket to enter the circus big top. Munchkins under two years old are admitted free of charge provided that they sit on a parent or guardians lap and do not occupy a seat.

⛳️⚽️ Disc & Football Golf at Box End Water Park in Kempston


Price: £6.00

⚽️ Looking for a fun outdoors activity? Discover Box End Park's newest attraction - Disc & Football Golf! It's the perfect way to spend quality time with your friends & family and enjoy the great outdoors - or simply come down to practice your skills & beat your course best! Open from March to December - it's fantastic FUN for all ages!

Enjoy our beautiful lakeside setting as you work your way around our Disc & Football Golf course! You will need to throw your disc into the basket or football into the hole - the exact same as you would do on a golf course! Your round should take around 1 hour to complete. The one who takes the least goes is the winner!

👀 Watch how to play on this YouTube link.
https://youtu.be/Y-a7gzV5140?si=M1_tPN95E9pz935Z

⛳️ BEGINNER OR PRO?
Choose between our 9 Hole Beginner course or take on our 9 Hole Pro route! Feeling up to the challenge - why not combine both?

⚽️ DISC & FOOTBALLS
Got your own disc or football? Bring them along with you or you can choose to rent one of ours for £2.50pp.

⏳️HOW MANY TIME SLOTS DO I NEED?
Each time-slot takes up to 4ppl max. teeing off every 10 minutes - so if you have a group of 8ppl you'll need to book 2 consecutive slots!

🕙 ARRIVE 15 MINUTES PRIOR
Please ensure you arrive at least 15 minutes before your booked session start time & collect your wristband from our Activities Reception before heading over to our Disc Golf course.

🎟 BOOKING A TIME SLOT -£6pp
You can book a time slot via the event link.
Opening hours and times may vary throughout the year so please make sure to check our daily opening times before booking.

🗺 DOWNLOAD THE APP FOR THE MAP
We'd recommend downloading the UDISC app to your phone - search for Box End Park and you'll have our course map and scorecards ready for your game!

☕️ 🌱 Cream Tea & Talk at Waresley Park Garden Centre, Sandy


Time: 15:00 Price: £9.99

☕️ Enjoy a delicious cream tea and listen to a talk by plant manager James on herbs & alpines, including a demo on planting a herb container. There will be time for a Q&A, and a chance to win the container.

💥 SPECIAL VOUCHER
Special discount voucher given to spend on plants featured during the talk.

🎟 ENTRY COST: £9.99 per person
You can purchase tickets via the event link.

💍 FREE Valuation Day - Woburn

Wednesday 19 March 2025

Time: 10:00 - 13:00

💍 Discover the true value of your jewellery, silver, fine art and collectables.

TIME:
Drop in any time between 10am - 1pm

💎 FREE VALUATION
Join our gemmologist and general valuer for a free, no obligation valuation at The Woburn, George Street, Woburn.

💷 Consigning now for our auction at the Woburn Hotel.

😌 Letting go of stress - Meditation Talk at Bedford Corn Exchange


Time: 19:30 - 22:00 Price: £12.00

😌 Letting Go of Stress with Kadam Bridget Heyes - NKT National Spiritual Director UK. It seems like everyone is stressed these days, even our children and pets. But how exactly does stress develop? And surely there’s a better solution than counting down the days until our next holiday?

✨️WHAT TO EXPECT✨️
In this practical and inspiring talk, discover how working with the mind to clear away distractions and develop positive attitudes can provide a lasting solution to stress. These simple techniques, developed by Buddha over 2,000 years ago, are still perfectly suited to the modern world.

ℹ️ ABOUT KADAM BRIDGET
Kadam Bridget Heyes has been practicing Buddhist meditation for over 30 years and is a senior disciple of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. She is the Resident Teacher at Nagarjuna KMC and the NKT-IKBU National Spiritual Director of the UK.

🧘‍♀️ YOUR HOST
Hosted by Nagarjuna Kadampa Meditation Centre.

🎫 TICKET PRICE: £12.00 (plus booking fee)
You can book tickets via the event link.

♿️ WHEELCHAIR & TELEPHONE BOOKING PLEASE PHONE:
☎️ 01234 718044

👶 Free Stay & Play For babies and Toddlers in Wilstead


Time: 13:30 - 15:15

🧸 Every Wednesday in term time. Stay and Play is a weekly group for parents/carers with young children. Located at Wilstead Evangelical Church.

💖 FREE!
It’s open to anyone and free to attend. Mums and other carers from Wilstead and the surrounding area come along for their children to play while they enjoy the company over a tea or coffee.

We offer a range of toys and activities, including:
⭐️Baby toys, mats and mobiles
⭐️Role-play resources, such as dressing-up clothes and kitchen
⭐️Ride-ons, slide and playhouse
⭐️Jigsaws, garage and vehicles
⭐️Painting and craft activities

❓️WHAT ELSE DO WE DO?
We also run coffee mornings once or twice a term, and an annual summer picnic.

ℹ️ For more info, contact Hannah on:
☎️ 01234 589563

🤸‍♂️Parent & Toddler Session at Gravity in Milton Keynes, only £4pp


Price: £4.00

🤸‍♂️ Watch toddlers face light up with joy as your little one learns to bounce on trampolines for this 60 minute whole park session at Gravity in Milton Keynes.

🧒 Toddlers are most welcome at Gravity, and there are lots of ways for mini bouncers to have fun safely.

⭐️ PARENT & TODDLER SESSION TIMES 7 DAYS A WEEK SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY:
▪️
8am - 9am
▪️9am - 10am
▪️10am - 11am

⭐️ AGE FOR PARENT & TODDLER SESSIONS:
All children must be over 18 months and under 5 years old accompanied by a paying adult. One adult to two toddlers.

🧦 GRAVITY SAFETY SOCKS - £2.50
GRAVITY safety socks are an important part of our safety procedures - everyone participating MUST wear them at all times.

🕣 ARRIVE 30 MINS EARLY
Please arrive at reception at least 30 mins before your start time to check in, sort out any equipment, use lockers and watch our safety brief.

📝 FAST TRACK
Fast track your experience by filling out the safety agreement online.

🎟 TICKETS - £4 PER PERSON
Add the total number of participants to your cart (toddlers plus parent, plus additional paying parent if required). Under 5s need to be accompanied on the activity area by a paying adult. Tickets can be booked via the event link.

🎭 AGATHA CRUSTY and the Village Hall Murders playing at The Little Theatre in Dunstable


Time: 19:45 - 22:15

🧐 Agatha Crusty (pronounced Croosty) is a crime novelist. She ís also pretty adept at solving crimes. And when her sister-in-law Alice invites her to spend a few days with her in the village of Chortelby, it’s not long before she gets caught up in a series of murders which seem directed at members of the All Saints Village Hall committee.

2025 DATES & TIMES:
▪️Friday 14th March - 7.45pm
▪️Saturday 15th March - 2pm & 7.45pm
▪️Tuesday 18th March - 7.45pm
▪️Wednesday 19th March - 7.45pm
▪️Thursday  20th March - 7.45pm
▪️Friday 21st March - 7.45pm
▪️Saturday 22nd March - 7.45pm


🤭 EVENT DETAILS
From Toby, the Vicar, and Eleanor, Chair of the committee, to Harry Knott the caretaker and identical twins Olivia and Oliver Truscott-Pratt, there are plenty of suspects. And with an investigating officer as incompetent as D.I. Twigg, there are plenty of laughs as the murders begin to pile up. But, while packed full of wit and very funny scenes, this is also a genuine murder mystery with an ingenious plot which will tax the little grey cells of the audience at the same time!

❓️Think you may be able to work out who-dun-it!? There’s only one way to find out!

🎟 TICKETS COST: Between £10 - £20
Tickets can be booked via the event link.


🐣 Free entry - Living Eggs at Richmond Manor Care Home, Ampthill


Time: 17:00 - 19:00

🐣 Ten adorable chicks will be in Richmond Manor Care Home, Ampthill. We’re hatching something special!  Mums, dads, grandparents — bring the kids in after the school run for some chick cuddles! ❤️

WHEN?
▪️17th - 21st March 2025
▪️5pm - 7pm

✨️ KIDS COMPETITION
We're also holding a chick naming competition. Get creative and name one of our chicks! The best name wins an exciting prize! 🎉

☎️ Phone number: 01525 308000

🖌🥂 Sip & Paint at Cod & Waffle in Leighton Buzzard


Time: 19:30 - 21:30 Price: £22.50

🖌 Sip & Paint with Something Less Boring at The Cod & Waffle in Leighton Buzzard.

🖼 WHAT TO EXPECT
⭐️ Join us for a relaxing guided art class at the fabulous Cod & Waffle restaurant!
⭐️ Enjoy a drink on us and see how your creativity blossoms.
⭐️ Perfect for beginners and improvers you'll be gently guided by Liddy, we supply all the materials you need, we know you'll enjoy creating your own piece of artwork in this lovely coffee shop at one of our most popular art evenings.

🥂 MATERIALS PROVIDED
Join us for an evening's guided art at the fantastic Cod & Waffle Restaurant, we provide all the materials and all the guidance you might want, plus your first drink.

🤩 BEGINNER OR IMPROVER?
Our pub/cafe art workshops are an ideal way for beginners or improvers to enjoy an evening of creativity aswell as learning a range of techniques in a warm welcoming environment

You'll be guided through by our very friendly, and knowledgeble art tutor, Liddy. You are free to take as much guidance as you like, but we certainly won't restrict your creative flair
By the end of the evening, you will have some new skills and your own piece of wall worthy art.

🐟🍟 FISH & CHIPS BEFOREHAND?
Perhaps drop in before and enjoy one of their delicious waffles or fantastic fish & chips.

🎟 TICKETS COST: £22.50
You can book tickets via the event link.


🗓 Sip & Paint Theme Dates 2025
▪️Wed 19th March 7.30pm - The Highland Cow
▪️Wed 16th April 7.30pm - Sailing
▪️Wed 21st May 7.30pm - Giant Pandas
▪️Wed 18th June 7.30pm - Monet’s Cat
▪️Wed 16th July 7.30pm - Aperol Spritz
▪️Wed 20th Aug 7.30pm - The Blue Door
▪️Wed 17th Sept 7.30pm - The Wolf
▪️Wed 15th Oct 7.30pm - Silver Birch Woods
▪️Wed 19th Nov 7.30pm - November Stag

🤸‍♂️ Soft Play at John Buyan Sports & Fitness in Bedford


TIMES TO CHOOSE BETWEEN:
9AM - 6.30PM ( 90 MINUTE SESSIONS)

🤸‍♂️ SOFT PLAY
A Play Park session for children at John Bunyan Sports and Fitness Centre in Bedford. Designed with colourful structures and padded obstacles, our soft play structure is the perfect backdrop for endless giggles and joyful discoveries.

RULES
🔸️Supervision ratios apply for children up to 12 years.
🔸️No outside food and drink is permitted.
🔸️All junior tickets include 1 adult, all additional adults need to purchase a ticket.
🔸️Socks must be worn at all times.

ℹ️ YOU WILL HAVE TO REGISTER IF YOU HAVENT ALREADY TO BOOK (You can register and book via the event link)

🎟 TICKET PRICE
▪️Child over 1 (including 1 adult): £6.20
▪️Under 1: Free
▪️Additional Adult: Free

📖 Exhibition Week at The Salvation Amy in Dunstable


Time: 10:00 - 20:00

📖 Explore an exhibition about 140 years of The Salvation Army in Dunstable.

📅 EXHIBITION OPENING TIMES
▪️Mon 17th March 2025: 1pm - 8pm
▪️Tuesday 18th March 2025: 10am - 8pm
▪️Wednesday 19th March 2025: 10am - 8pm
▪️Thursday 20th March 2025:  10am - 8pm
▪️Friday 21st March 2025: 10am - 1pm

💥 FREE screening of GLENROTHAN at Milton Keynes, Cineworld


Time: 18:45

🎬 You and a guest are invited to a special preview screening of GLENROTHAN, an upcoming British drama film, directed by Brian Cox and starring Brian Cox (Succession, Churchill), Alan Cumming (The Battle Of The Sexes, X-Men) and Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter, Bridget Jones’s Diary).

▪️AGE:
Guests are required to be 35 to 75 to attend. No one under 35, including children/infants, will be admitted. Film run time approx 1hr 30min (followed by survey).

TIME:
▪️Get to the cinema: 18:45
▪️Film starts: 19:30

📽 ABOUT THE FILM
After 35 years in Chicago, Donal (Alan Cumming) reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy (Brian Cox). Sandy needs Donal to take over the family’s whiskey distillery or he will be forced to sell and give up on the family’s legacy. But their reunion forces the brothers to confront the past and the real reason Donal left Glenrothan.

💳 WHAT TO BRING
Please bring your driving licence or credit card to show your name matches the one on your tickets.

🙋‍♀️ BOOK NOW!
Apply now, get your free tickets and watch it before its official 2025 release via the event link. The tickets are limited, first come first serve. You may have to register if you haven't already. Hit the event link button and book now!

Thursday 20 March (19)

🤣 Paul Chowdhry - Englandia at Bedford Corn Exchange


Time: 19:30

🤣 Paul Chowdhry is coming to Bedford Corn Exchange on Thursday 20th March 2025!
Renowned as the most successful British Indian stand-up comedian in British history, Paul’s career is marked by numerous accolades and ground breaking achievements.

▪️Doors & bar opens: 7pm
▪️Show starts at: 7.30pm

🤩 ABOUT PAUL
In a remarkable feat, Paul completed his Family-Friendly Comedian nationwide UK tour from 2021 to 2023, which saw three extensions due to overwhelming demand. This tour garnered widespread praise, culminating in a sold-out run at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023, where it earned rave reviews and ratings ranging from 4 to 5 stars.
“It’s a rare and joyous thing to see a stand up so vibrant and imperiously on top of his game.”

REVIEWS
⭐️★★★★★ Mail on Sunday
“The greatest British Asian comedian of all time.”
⭐️★★★★★The Eastern Eye


♿️ WHEELCHAIR & TELEPHONE BOOKINGS PLEASE PHONE:
☎️ 01234 718044

🎫 TICKET PRICE:
▪️VIP + Meet & Greet: £95.00
▪️General: £25.00
▪️General: £32.50
▪️General: £45.00

✅️ BOOK TICKETS VIA THE EVENT LINK ⬇️

🎪 Circus Zyair 2025 in Milton Keynes


🎪 Doors will open 45 mins prior to the performance time. The show is 90mins with a short interval.

DATES & TIMES:
▪️Wednesday 19th March 2025
– 7.30pm
▪️Thursday 20th March 2025 – 5pm & 7.30pm
▪️Friday 21st March 2025– 5pm & 7.30pm
▪️Saturday 22nd March 2025 – 11am, 3pm & 6pm
▪️Sunday 23rd March 2025– 11am & 3pm

💥 SPECIAL OFFER
Use code FB50 to get a discount on 19th or 20th March only.

♿️ WHEELCHAIR USERS
When you purchase your tickets online, please select how many wheelchair users are in your group. This will help us to arrange enough wheelchair spaces at each performance. Please note that wheelchair spaces are limited, and we may not be able to seat other members of the booking with the wheelchair.

👶CAN PUSHCHAIRS BE TAKEN INSIDE?
Fire regulations prohibit prams and pushchairs from being taken into the circus big top. There is a small area to leave them in the foyer at your own risk.

🎟 TICKET INFORMATION - You can purchase your ticket via the event link.
Everybody aged two years old and above requires a ticket to enter the circus big top. Munchkins under two years old are admitted free of charge provided that they sit on a parent or guardians lap and do not occupy a seat.

🩰The Royal Ballet Live: Romeo and Juliet at Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre


Time: 19:15

🩰 The Capulets and Montagues are sworn enemies. Yet it is love at first sight for Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet when they meet each other at the Capulet ball, into which Romeo has snuck. The two fall in love and they profess their devotion to each other at Juliet’s balcony. They secretly get married.

The stakes are raised for the young couple when Romeo avenges the death of his friend Mercutio who has been killed by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. For this, Romeo is exiled from Verona. Meanwhile, Juliet’s parents are forcing her to marry another suitor. In order to be together, Romeo and Juliet must risk it all.

This performance will be broadcast live from Covent Garden to our big screen.

▪️Doors open: 6.30pm
▪️Show Starts: 7.15pm

🎟 TICKETS COST:
▪️Stalls: £15.00 (+ £1.00 fees)
For wheelchair and companion tickets, please contact the box office on 0300 300 8125.
▪️Concession: £13.00 (+ £1.00 fees)
Concession rates apply to senior citizens (over 60) registered unemployed and students in full time education. If you are unable to click on the menu for concession prices, please update or try another browser, or call the box office on 0300 300 8125.
▪️U16: £13.00 (+ £1.00 fees)
Please note that most live screenings are rated 12A and some can be rated higher due to sensitive content. Please check before purchasing.

♿️ WHEELCHAIR USERS
Call our Box Office on:
☎️ 0300 300 8125
 
Monday – Saturday 12pm – 3pm (excluding bank holidays)

😋🎶 STREET FOOD HEROS IN DUNSTABLE 2025


Time: 16:00 - 21:00

🎶 Street Food Hero's is back for 2025 on Thursday nights in Dunstable on Ashton Square.

😋 Come for delicious food options and music, great for the whole family!

2025 DATES:
▪️
Thursday 20th March
▪️Thursday 17th April
▪️Thursday 15th May
▪️Thursday 19th June
▪️Thursday 17th July
▪️Thursday 21st August
▪️Thursday 18th September

🏛 Free Panacea Museum in Bedford 2025


Time: 10:00 - 16:00 Price: £0.00

🏡A FREE MUSEUM IN BEDFORD- The Panacea, a beautiful Victorian House.
Discover the amazing story of the unique religious community that created its own Garden of Eden in the centre of Bedford. The museum has beautiful gardens to walk around.

OPEN:
Thursday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm
(last admission 3.30pm)

📖 SOME INTERESTING HISTORY
The Panacea Society was originally called ‘The Community of the Holy Ghost’, and was made up mostly of women. Its leader was Mabel Barltrop – the widow of an English clergyman, and mother of four children– whose followers called her ‘Octavia’.

Octavia. The founder of the Panacea Society.

During the 1920s, followers of the Panacea Society moved to Bedford to live near Octavia. Eventually, the community was able to combine the gardens of several properties to form ‘the campus’ – a private space between the community houses, with a chapel at its centre.

From this headquarters, the Society operated a religious organisation which reached across the world. Over two thousand people became members of the Panacea Society, in Europe, North America and many parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth.

From its beginning, the Panacea Society expected the end of the world. Society members were convinced that God would soon act to bring about a new age – a period of peace and happiness called ‘the Millennium’.

The Panacea Society was part of a wider religious movement of groups concerned with prophecy. The Panaceans believed that God was speaking to them through Octavia, but her followers did not believe she was the only modern prophet. Rather, they accepted a lineage of seven prophetic voices since the late 1700s – a tradition they called ‘the Visitation’.

🧒 FOR CHILDREN
Children trails, colouring sheets and wooden toys in the activity space in the main museum building 'Castleside'.

FOOD AND DRINK
Tea room serving refreshments, hot & cold snacks with indoor & outdoor seating

🚼 TOILET INFORMATION
Baby changing can be found in a toilet that is big enough to fit a pushchair in

🅿️ PARKING
No parking is available at the Museum, however there is pay and display parking nearby.

♿🅿️ ACCESSIBILITY (Partly accessible)
Accessible info and blue badge holders, click here: https://panaceamuseum.org/visiting/access

CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Tel: 01234 353178
📧 museum@panaceatrust.org

🤣 Castle Comedy Biggleswade - March 2025 (ages 16+)


Time: 20:00 - 22:30

🤣 A classic mixed bill of TV names and rising stars at The BIGG Theatre in Biggleswade.

▪️AGE:
16+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
▪️Door time: 7:15pm
▪️Start time: 8:00pm

WHAT TO EXPECT.....
🤩 MARCEL LUCONT - is a flâneur, raconteur, bon-viveur, and easily the greatest UK-based French comedian around. He is a regular on television. He has appeared on The John Bishop Show (BBC1), Live at the Electric (BBC3), Sky Atlantic’s Set List and Russell Howards Good News!
He has toured the world and won numerous awards, including the 2012 Amused Moose Award for the Best Comedy Show of the Edinburgh Fringe and the 2013 Fringe World Award for Best Comedy at the Perth Comedy Festival.

“Wonderful French wit … superb stuff … His elegant, sardonic turns of phrase are an utter joy” - Time Out

🤩 ALI WOODS - is a half-English, half-Scottish comedian, podcaster and content creator.  His online comedy sketches under the tag @aliwoodsgigs have gained millions of views and likes, and featured on LadBible and Buzzfeed UK. He has starred on Comedy Central Live and ITV2's Stand Up Sketch Show.

“In a world of wannabes, Woods is the real deal.” The Evening Standard

🎤 PAUL REVILL – Biggleswade favourite hosts the show

🎟 TICKET PRICE
You can purchase tickets via the event link.

▪️General Admission Adults: £14 plus £1.40 booking fee

♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible toilets to the bar and auditorium areas.
Auditorium wheelchair access from side entrance.

ℹ️ CONTACT INFORMATION
📧 Email: Anna@thebiggtheatre.co.uk