🐰 Easter at Johnsons of Old Hurst Zoo - 2026
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
🗓 EASTER 2026 DATES:
▪️Sat 28th March - Sunday 29th March
▪️Tues 31st March - Sunday 5th April
▪️Tues 7th April - Sunday 12th April
🕙 TIMES
We’ll be open 10am–5pm (Tues–Sat) and 10am–4:30pm (Sun) with plenty to keep the whole family entertained! Last entry is 30 minutes before closing time.
🐊 Please note, our tropical house will close 30 minutes prior to the zoo closing.
🐻 WHAT TO EXPECT
Enjoy our Easter Trail, face painting & more, alongside all your favourite animals here at Johnsons Zoo. It’s the perfect spring day out... we can’t wait to see you!
✅️ Play park onsite
✅️ Restaurant
✅️ Tea room
✅️ Farm shop
🐶 DOGS
For all you dog lovers and owners... yes! we do accept dogs at Johnsons, though we ask for you to keep them on a lead at all times.
🥪 NO PICNICS ALLOWED
To maintain affordable zoo prices and ensure the well-being of our animals, we encourage customers to dine in our tea room or steakhouse during their visit. Keeping our zoo prices low is essential to make it accessible to families with lower incomes.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to be wheelchair accessible. We provide disabled parking next to our farm shop and in front of the steakhouse entrance. Accessible toilets are available in both the steakhouse and tea room. Additionally, we have gravel paths throughout our zoo and woodland walk to facilitate wheelchair access.
💷 PAY AT THE DOOR - NO BOOKING REQUIRED (CASH OR CARD)
▪️Adult: £5.50
▪️Child: £4.50
▪️3 & under go free
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
☎️ Phone: 01487 824658
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17 other events on this day
🐣 Easter Farm & Craft Market 2026 - Market Square, St Neots
Time: 09:00 - 14:00
🎉 WHAT TO EXPECT
Join us on Saturday 28th March, 9am - 2pm for a special Easter edition of our Farm & Craft Market
Packed with FREE family activities, Easter eggs give away, and all your favourite regular traders!
Free Activities & Giveaways:
🐰 Easter Bunny appearances
🎨 Face painting
🦔 Wilderness Experience – Animal Meet & Greet
🌼 Free daffodils
🛍 Free Farm & Craft tote bags
🎲 Children’s craft activities & games
🍫 Easter eggs to give away! (first come, first served)
👻 Paranormal Investigation - The Old White Horse, Hockliffe
Time: 20:00 - 00:30 Price: £28.70
📖 A RICH & STORIED HISTORY
This remarkable property sits on land tracing back to Roman times. Originally a coaching inn owned by the prominent Gilpin family, it is believed to have been frequented by Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe. Its history is as diverse as it is long—serving as a boarding school in the 1930s and even a Tommy Gun range during WWII. With such a layered past, it is no surprise that the energy here is intense.
👻 GHOSTLY ACTIVITY
Current residents have reported unnerving phenomena that will test even the bravest investigators:
▪️The Nursery Spirit: A young girl is frequently seen in the upper bedrooms and nursery.
▪️Poltergeist Activity: Mysterious childlike handprints appear on mirrors, and latched doors have been known to open on their own.
▪️Shadow Figures: Dark shapes flit through rooms, leaving visitors with the distinct feeling of being watched.
▪️Disembodied Sounds: Footsteps echoing in empty halls and voices arising from nowhere.
✨ YOUR EVENT INCLUDES
This is a real ghost hunt experience in small groups—no tricks, just investigation.
▪️ Introduction to ghost hunting techniques and equipment.
▪️ Victorian experiments including Ouija Boards, Glass Divination, and Table Tipping.
▪️ Use of scientific paranormal equipment.
▪️ Lone vigils for the brave.
▪️ Free hot/cold drinks and light snacks included.
🎟 TICKETS COST: £28.70 (including fees)
You can purchase tickets via the event link.
⚠️ IMPORTANT INFO
▪️Ages: 18+ only.
▪️Essentials: Bring a torch and wear warm, layered clothing/sensible shoes.
▪️Parking: No on-site parking. Please use local street parking or the Harvester restaurant opposite.
♿ WHEELCHAIR USERS
Not suitable for wheelchair users or those with mobility issues due to uneven flooring. Not suitable for pregnant people.
🎼 Rheinberger Mass in E flat and Gjeilo Sunrise Mass - St Mary’s Parish Church, Woburn
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Josef Rheinberger: Mass in E flat
Josef Rheinberger, a much under-rated composer, is today probably best known for his set of 20 organ sonatas. But he also wrote a large number of choral works of which his extraordinary Mass in E flat for unaccompanied double choir is generally considered to be his finest. Its antiphonal opening harks back to the works of Gabrieli and Monteverdi composed for spatially separated choirs, with the gloriously rich eight-part harmonies of later movements showing the influence of composers such as Bach and Mendelssohn. The overall result is a work which showcases Rheinberger’s own inventive powers of composition and has been described as “the most beautiful pure vocal mass of the nineteenth century.”
✨️ Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass
Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) created this 30-minute work in four sections: The Spheres (Kyrie), Sunrise (Gloria), The City (Credo), and Identity & The Ground (Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus Dei). Gjeilo himself said: “The reason I used English titles, seemingly unrelated to the (mostly) Latin texts, for the movements in this setting of the Mass has mainly to do with the initial idea behind Sunrise Mass. I wanted the musical development of the work to evolve from the most transparent and spacey, to something completely earthy and grounded; from nebulous and pristine to more emotional and dramatic, and eventually warm and solid – as a metaphor for human development from child to adult, or as a spiritual journey.
🎟 TICKET COST:
£20, £15, £10, students £5
https://wegottickets.com/event/685989
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS/ENQUIRIES
☎️ Phone: 01908 386796
🤩 Franklins Local Craft Fair - Franklins of Thorncote Farm Shop, Sandy
Time: 09:00 - 15:00
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️Saturday 28th February
▪️Saturday 28th March
▪️Saturday 11th April
🛍️ WHAT TO EXPECT
We have a fantastic mix of local crafts and small businesses joining us. Come and browse:
✨ Arts & Jewellery
✨ Chocolate
✨ Crochet & 3D Printing
✨ Handmade Cards
✨ Resin Crafts
✨ Cushions, Bags & more!
MAKE A DAY OF IT
While you’re here, why not:
🧀 Enjoy a light bite in our Dairy Café
🥩 Stock up on delicious free-range, homegrown meat from our Farm Shop
🐎 Say hi to our miniature pony Pumpkin
☕ Warm up with a coffee and soak up the relaxed farm atmosphere
☂️ UNDER COVER
Situated in our cosy marquee, we are covered from rain & wind so you can shop in comfort whatever the weather.
🎟️ FREE ENTRY
Make a day of it, support local, and discover something special. We can’t wait to see you!
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES/CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01767 627644
🌐 Website: Click here
🎼 Danesborough Chorus Sings Rheinberger Mass in E flat & Gjeilo Sunrise Mass - St Mary’s Church, Woburn
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Josef Rheinberger, a much under-rated composer, is today probably best known for his set of 20 organ sonatas. But he also wrote a large number of choral works of which his extraordinary Mass in E flat for unaccompanied double choir is generally considered to be his finest. Its antiphonal opening harks back to the works of Gabrieli and Monteverdi composed for spatially separated choirs, with the gloriously rich eight-part harmonies of later movements showing the influence of composers such as Bach and Mendelssohn. The overall result is a work which showcases Rheinberger’s own inventive powers of composition and has been described as “the most beautiful pure vocal mass of the nineteenth century.”
🎼 Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass
Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) created this 30-minute work in four sections:
The Spheres (Kyrie), Sunrise (Gloria), The City (Credo), and Identity & The Ground (Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus Dei). Gjeilo himself said: “The reason I used English titles, seemingly unrelated to the (mostly) Latin texts, for the movements in this setting of the Mass has mainly to do with the initial idea behind Sunrise Mass. I wanted the musical development of the work to evolve from the most transparent and spacey, to something completely earthy and grounded; from nebulous and pristine to more emotional and dramatic, and eventually warm and solid – as a metaphor for human development from child to adult, or as a spiritual journey.
🎟 TICKET COST:
£20, £15, £10, students £5.
You can purchase tickets via the event link.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01908 386796
🦁 Universal Credit Low Cost Whipsnade Zoo Tickets 2026!
Time: 11:00 - 16:00
To help people who might find cost or other challenges a barrier to visiting Whipsnade Zoo, the Universal Credit tickets provide entry at a reduced price.
🙋♀️ WHO CAN GET THE REDUCED TICKETS?
Reduced price tickets to Whipsnade Zoo available for those currently receiving:
▪️Universal Credit,
▪️Working Tax Credit,
▪️Child Tax Credit,
▪️Employment and Support Allowance,
▪️Income Support
▪️Jobseeker’s Allowance.
🌐 ONLINE BOOKING ONLY VIA THE 'EVENT LINK' BUTTON
These tickets are only available to purchase online in advance, for up to six people per household (under 3’s go free and do not need to book – but must be accompanied by an adult with a booked ticket). As only full price tickets are available to buy at the gate.
📝 WHAT WILL I NEED TO BRING WITH ME?
You'll need to bring proof of eligibility with you and show this when you present your ticket(s) to the friendly staff at the Zoo entrance. This can either be by logging into your Universal Credit portal or by bringing your proof of benefit letter (one proof per household). To be eligible you must have received a Universal Credit payment within the last month and you may also be asked to show photographic ID.
🎟 UNIVERSAL TICKET COST
▪️Adult (ages 16+) - £9.35/ £8.50
▪️Child (ages 3 - 15) - £4.95 / £4.50
▪️UNDER 3 - Free
💡 AN IDEA TO SAVE MONEY ON FOOD...
You can check out the toogoodtogo app to see if they have any surprise bags of food left, generally they are around £3/£4 instead of costing £9. Be quick though they can sell out quickly. Click here to join too good to go.
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🎪 Easter Circus 2026 - Mead Open Farm, Leighton Buzzard
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
🗓 2026 DATES:
▪️Saturday 28th March - Friday 10th April
🐑 EASTER ACTIVITIES INCLUDED IN YOUR TICKET
⭐️ Jaw-dropping Big Top Circus
⭐️ The Wheel of Death (featured in every performance)
⭐️ Lamb bottle feeding
⭐️ Easter Trail with chocolate treat
⭐️ Meet the animals
⭐️ Huge Indoor & Outdoor play areas
🧗♀️ PLAY AREAS
🎟 TICKETS COST:
▪️From just £18.95 per person.
▪️Circus entry and all activities are included in your ticket.
▪️Pre-book online to save 20% off the on-door admission price.
▪️This event is included in a Mead Open Farm Annual Membership.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
Our disabled rate covers a disabled person plus carer, on presentation of a Blue Badge, DLA, PIP letter or Numbus Access Card +1. Please bring along one of these on the day of your visit.
Mead Open Farm is accessible for visitors in wheelchairs and we have good accessibility for our disabled visitors. If you have any questions, you can email us at info@meadopenfarm.co.uk or see our access statement on our website.
We have several disabled toilets across the farm, don’t hesitate to ask a member of staff for help finding them. View our map here.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS/ENQUIRIES
☎️ Phone: 01525 852 954
🎡 Pop Up Fun Park, March 2026 - Wardown Park, Luton
Time: 13:00 - 21:00
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️Thursday 19th - Sunday 22nd March
▪️Thursday 26th - Sunday 29th March
🗓 OPENING TIMES
(Free entry on Eid days)
✅ Thursday (Eid) - 12:00pm - 9:00pm
✅ Friday (Eid) - 12:00pm - 9:00pm
✅ Saturday - 1:00pm - 9:00pm
✅ Sunday - 1:00pm - 9:00pm
✅ Thursday -5:00pm - 9:00pm
✅ Friday - 5:00pm - 9:00pm
✅ Saturday - 1:00pm - 9:00pm
✅ Sunday - 1:00pm - 7:00pm
💰 DISCOUNT DAY: THURS 26TH MARCH
All Rides ONLY 2 TOKENS! Excludes bungees.
💳 ENTRY COST: £2
🪙 TOKEN COST
▪️1 token: £1.20
▪️10 tokens: £10.00
▪️All Rides are 3 - 4 tokens each
🍊 Orange Rolling 2026 - Dunstable Downs
Time: 10:00 - 17:00 Price: £3.50
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️Sat 28 Mar - Sun 12 Apr
▪️10am – 5pm
▪️Last entry at 4:30pm
ℹ️ EVENT DETAILS
This year, visitors can challenge a friend and race their tennis balls along 10 purpose-built race tracks (filled with drops, twists, and turns), to see whose orange makes it to the finish line first!
💳 COST:
£3.50 per trail, which includes an Easter trail sheet, bunny ears, and a dairy or vegan & Free From* chocolate egg. (*Suitable for people with milk, egg, gluten, peanut, and tree nut allergies.)
This year's Easter trail is a fun, family-friendly experience that's not to be missed!
🐶 OTHER INFORMATION
This event is aimed at families, but everyone is welcome. Dogs on leads around the Visitor Centre. There is also a Café onsite.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
The visitor centre, courtyard and trail is step free and suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs.
🅿️ PARKING
Parking is free for National Trust Members and Blue Badge holders, for everyone it is £3.50.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01582 500920
📧 Email:
dunstabledowns@nationaltrust.org.uk
📸 Image description: a group of children playing with an outdoor ball run (©National Trust Images/Steve Haywood)
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🐣 Easter Farm & Craft Market 2026 - Market Square, St Neots
Time: 09:00 - 14:00
🎉 WHAT TO EXPECT
Join us on Saturday 28th March, 9am - 2pm for a special Easter edition of our Farm & Craft Market
Packed with FREE family activities, Easter eggs give away, and all your favourite regular traders!
Free Activities & Giveaways:
🐰 Easter Bunny appearances
🎨 Face painting
🦔 Wilderness Experience – Animal Meet & Greet
🌼 Free daffodils
🛍 Free Farm & Craft tote bags
🎲 Children’s craft activities & games
🍫 Easter eggs to give away! (first come, first served)
🦖 See Elmer the Patchwork Elephant - Gulliver's Dinosaur and Farm Park (2026)
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Be sure to explore the rides and dinosaurs in the Lost World of the Living Dinosaurs, enjoy the farmyard fun on the farm park and get up close to giant creepy crawlies. And get ready to jump, bounce and soar on Elmer's Jumping Pillows - our newest attraction!
🎟 TICKET COST:
Book your tickets online in advance to save!
▪️Adult: £11.00
▪️Child: £11.00
▪️Under 90cm: Free
▪️Concessionary: £8.00
🍰 Saturday £1 Coffee and Cake at All Saints' Church, Houghton Regis
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
🍰 £1 per item. Takeaway option available.
Coffee and Tea.
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🐑 Lambing Open Day 2026- Watergate Farm,Hockliffe
Time: 10:30 - 16:00
🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Visitors can hold the lambs and see a modern sheep farm at work. With over 2000 sheep to give birth, it is a great chance to see lambs being born, taking their first few steps and suckling their mothers for the first time.
🐑 Real time lambing on a working farm
♨️ Refreshments & barbecue with local produce
🐷 See the young pigs and calves
🐴 Pony rides and sheep shearing (may there be adverse weather conditions – please see social media for any changes)
🐮 Red Poll cows and calves
🚜 Tractor and trailer rides
☁️ See wool spinning in action
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
Disabled parking facilities. We offer disabled parking and most the site is concreted. It is easy to get around the lambing shed and see the attractions.
👢WELLIES
🎟 TICKET COST:
▪️Adult (17 years old and over): £10.00
▪️Child: (3-16 years old): £ 8.00
ℹ️ BOOKING INFORMATION
Select your arrival time to purchase your tickets. Please note that entry before 12:30pm requires a pre-purchased ticket. Entry will not be permitted without a ticket.
After 12:30pm booking is not required and tickets can be purchased upon arrival. CASH ONLY.
ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01525 450 140
👣 Easter Egg Trail 2026 - Priory Country Park
Time: 10:00 - 16:00 Price: £4.00
👣 EVENT DETAILS
Pop into Cloverdale Cafe at Priory Country Park, Bedford during the opening hours to pick up a map.Follow the trail, collect the codes and then go back to the café to collect an Easter egg. (Non dairy & non edible available).
🗓 2026 DATES & TIME
▪️28th March - 12th April 2026
▪️10am - 4pm
💳 COST: £4.00 PER CHILD
No pre-booking required. Turn up and pay on the day.
ℹ️ HAVEN'T BEEN BEFORE?
Check out Whatsup Bedfordshire Facebook post for photos and info for Priory Country Park.
ℹ️ CLOVERDALE CAFE CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01933 682288
📧 Email: enquiries@cloverdalecatering.co.uk
🌐 Website: Cloverdale Cafe
https://cloverdaleretreat.co.uk/
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🐰 Free Entry Easter Event 2026 - Marston Moreteyne VC School
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
WHAT TO EXPECT
🌸 Easter Egg Hunt
🌸 Easter Craft Activities
🌸
🌸 Second hand sale
🪙 Bring some cash!
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🌸 Boretta Bear's Easter Egg Hunt 2026 - Jordans Mill, Broom
Time: 09:30 - 15:30
🗓 2026 DATES & TIME
▪️28th March – 12th April
▪️9:30 am – 3:30 pm
🌸 EVENT DETAILS
Explore and follow clues to find ten birds including Rosie Robin, Oscar and the Owl, Kolin the Kingfisher, Sammy the Swan and more! Match each bird with their coloured egg and see how many you can find.
💳 COST: £4 PER CHILD (Includes a prize(
☕️ THE CAFE
There is a café onsite, you can read the menu here.
Sunday Menu.
Childrens menu
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
☎️ Phone: 01767 603940
🐾 Easter Trail 2026 - Cedars Nature Centre, Hertfordshire
Time: 10:00 - 17:00 Price: £2.40
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️From 28th March-12th April
🌳 EVENT DETAILS
Join us at Cedars Nature Centre in Hertfordshire for an egg-citing Easter trail around the zoo.
Find the hidden egg pictures, solve the mystery word, and claim your prize before you leave!
🐾 What’s happening on the day?
▪️Animal presentations every 45 minutes
🌳 Set in beautiful historic parkland, you can also explore:
🌿 The Venusberg (Telly Tubby Hill to some of you 😉)
🌿 Mini maze
🌿 Duck pond
🌿 Plenty of space for little adventurers to roam!
🎟 TICKET COST:
▪️£2.40 per person
▪️Under 2s go FREE
No prebooking needed – just turn up and enjoy! Creating unforgettable memories without breaking the bank!
ℹ️ ENQUIRIES - Click here
🐣 Free Easter Egg Hunt 2026 - Emberton Country Park Cafe
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
🗓 2026 DATES
▪️28th March - 12th April
🐶 DOGS
Dogs are welcome outside the cafe.
💨 WEATHER PERMITTING
Important Note: Please remember that our opening times may occasionally be adjusted due to weather conditions, which could result in extended hours or early closure. We'll always do our best to keep you updated.
♿️ ACCESSIBILITY
There is free entry for vehicles displaying a disabled blue badge permit during the gatehouse opening times and there are reserved blue badge spaces in the main car park, near to the cafe where there is also access to toilet facilities for the disabled.
The main, circular pathway through the park has a hard paved surface that is suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs for most of the year. However, parts of the path can be wet in winter and after heavy rain.
Emberton Country Park has a Changing Places toilet, located behind the cafe.
🌳 THINGS TO DO AT EMBERTON COUNTRY PARK
To Find else what else you can do at Emberton Country Park click here.
🅿️ PARKING - FEES APPLY
Click here for information
ℹ️ CAFE CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01234 712665
