🌸 Refreshments in the Courtyard at Cowper & Newton Museum, Olney
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
🗓 2025 DATES:
▪️1st May
▪️15th May ▪️ 24th July
▪️29th May ▪️ 7th August
▪️12th June ▪️21st August
▪️26th June ▪️4th September
▪️10th July ▪️18th September
🍰 FOOD & DRINK
Delicious homemade cakes, a choice of tea, coffee, specialty tea or juice and a relaxing stroll around our beautiful 18th century, tranquil gardens – ALL FOR ONLY £6.00. Great value!
🌷FREE ENTRY to the gardens: While away your time in the peace and tranquility. A perfect place to meet up with your friends and family – there’s something for everyone!
🎫 COLLECT YOUR TICKET
No need to book in advance – just purchase your refreshments ticket in our Shop.
☎️ CONTACT DETAILS: 01234 711516
🏛 EXTEND YOUR VISIT TO THE MUSEUM
If you would like to make the most of your time here to see inside the Museum too, please purchase your admission pass in our Shop for only £10. Our super volunteers are ready to welcome you. (Did you know that your admission pass is also an ‘annual pass’ which means you come back to see the museum and gardens anytime during normal opening hours throughout the year using your pass).
🛍 MARKET DAY
Every Thursday is also ‘Market Day’ in Olney.
16 other events on this day
😂 The Anglia Comedy Allstars at The Harpur Suite, Bedford Corn Exchange
Time: 19:00 Price: £27.50
▪️AGES: Strictly over 18s only
▪️Doors open: 19:00
▪️Show starts: 20:00
✨️Joel Dommett - As host of The Masked Singer, has become a firm fixture on TV in the last few years. He became known to many people through his successful stint on I’m a Celebrity.
✨️Matt Richardson - Your compere for the evening is recent star of ITV’s Dancing on Ice, is a multi-award winning stand-up comedian. Matt is the former host of the Xtra Factor and has appeared on shows such as Nevermind The Buzzcocks, Celebrity Juice and Pointless Celebrities
✨️Glenn Moore - Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee (Mock The Week, Live at the Apollo and The Dave Berry Breakfast Show)
✨️Esther Manito - is an Arab Essex girl who will challenge every single preconception of what that means. As seen on Live at The Apollo, The Stand Up Sketch Show & Hypothetical.
🎟 TICKET PRICES: £27.50
(including booking fee)
You can book tickets via the event link.
♿️ WHEELCHAIR & TELEPHONE BOOKING PLEASE PHONE:
☎️ 01234 718 044
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😋🎶 STREET FOOD HEROS IN DUNSTABLE 2025
Time: 16:00 - 21:00
😋 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
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💦 FREE Bennett's Splash Park in Dunstable 2025
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
📆 2025 DATES
▪️Monday 5th May - Sunday 31st August
▪️7 days a week
▪️10am - 6pm
💦 FREE FAMILY FUN
Enjoy the 16 super soaking water features ranging from gentle mists, spray arches and tipping buckets to spray shooter cannons. The Splash Park is designed to be enjoyed by children of all ages from 2 years to 10 years.
Those who are older are asked to act responsibly for the safety of all.
Please note, the Splash Park will have 10 minute intervals where the water will stop to ensure water safety quality checks, why not take this opportunity to refresh at the Splashside Cafe.
❗️IMPORTANT INFORMATION
*Bennett’s Splash Park and Splashside Café may be subject to closure due to unforeseen circumstances due to weather, technical faults or other issues beyond our control. For regular updates, please follow us on Facebook: @bennettssplash *
🍕 THE SPLASHSIDE CAFE
The Splashside Café adjacent to the Splash Park offers an array of food and drinks for all to enjoy such as freshly prepared milkshakes, delicious pizzas, classic fish finger bap and much more! Please note, last orders are 5.30 pm. View the menu here.
🅿️ PARKING - Charges may apply
When driving to Bennett’s Splash, please park in Ashton Square Car Park located off Bull Pond Lane, LU6 3BE.
The Splash Park is a minute walk from here, into Bennett Memorial Recreation Ground. Please take care when crossing the road.
ASHTON SQUARE CAR PARK is owned and operated by Central Bedfordshire Council. Please check the machines for chargeable days and hours.
🌳🧒 Parent & Toddler Woodland Sensory Sessions 2025 - Soulbury, Leighton Buzzard
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
▪️AGE: Wolflings Woodland Sensory is for Preschool Children ranging from 2-5 years of age.
🗓 WHEN?
▪️Thursdays (term time)
▪️10.30am - 12 noon
🐦 WHAT TO EXPECT
Set in the heart of a magical woodland children will be immersed in activities like scavenging, messy mud play, creative art using a multitude of natural tools, fire building, cooking, all while being captivated by the sounds of birds and the steady waters flowing from the nearby streams.
🌱 Wonder and curiosity will guide and connect your child with nature through touch, sight, sound, smell, and even taste (perhaps sampling wild berries or herbs under supervision).
The setting provides a calm, nurturing ambiance, with dappled sunlight filtering through the canopy overhead, inviting the children to embrace a holistic approach to learning that stimulates their senses, fosters connection to the natural world, and nurtures their holistic development.
📍LOCATION: Soulbury, Leighton Buzzard
🗓 2025 DATES:
▪️Thursday 13th March
▪️Thursday 20th March
▪️Thursday 3rd April
▪️Thursday 1st May
▪️Thursday 15th May
▪️Thursday 5th June
▪️Thursday 12th June
▪️Thursday 19th June
▪️Thursday 3rd July
▪️Thursday 10th July
🎟 PAY AS YOU GO TICKETS VIA THE EVENT LINK:
▪️1 Adult 1 Child: £9.50
▪️1 Adult 2 children: £15.00
☎️ Phone: 07377423546
🚘 Billington Car Boot Sale 2025
Time: 08:00 - 13:00
🗓 OPENING TIMES
We are OPEN every Thursday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday.
🌧 WEATHER DEPENDANT
Please check our FB page for weather updates via the event link.
🛍 BUYERS
▪️Gates open: 8am
▪️Entry after 8am: £1
▪️Early access for buyers before 8am: £5
🐕🦺 DOGS
Dogs are welcome on a lead.
🚘 SELLERS:
▪️ Sellers at 7am
▪️Loyalty cards available at gate
▪️ There's no need to book just pull up and sell!
🎫 Cars £8
🎫 Small Vans £10
🎫 Large Vans £12
🎫 Extra Large Vans £14
🎫 Small Trailer £2
🎫 Large Trailer £5
ℹ️ SELLERS INFORMATION
Sellers don't forget to bring spare change on the day! Take rubbish home.
🏍 Bike Meet at The Lowndes Arms in Whaddon
Time: 17:30
👋 EVERYONE WELCOME....
Are you a bike enthusiast? Bring your bike along if not still pop along and take a look at everyone’s bikes.
😋 FEELING HUNGRY?
We do some great food too!
☎️ Contact number: 01908 990334
🖼 Art Demonstration by Chris Church at Linslade Middle School
Time: 19:45 - 22:00
ℹ️ A BIT ABOUT THE ARTIST - CHRIS CHURCH
Visits across the UK with his young family often serve as excellent inspiration for his pieces. He was a finalist for the prestigious David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year in 2019, and displayed the beautiful ‘Curious Red Panda’ piece in the Mall Galleries, London.
🎟 ENTRY FEE:
▪️LBAS (Leighton Buzzard Art Society) members: FREE
▪️Non-members: £6.00 payable at the door.
🤸♂️ Soft Play at John Buyan Sports & Fitness in Bedford
Price: £6.20
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.
🕐 TIMES TO CHOOSE BETWEEN:
9AM - 6.30PM (90 MINUTE SESSIONS)
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
☕️ FREE MICKEY'S CAFE - The Transfiguration Church in Kempston
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
☕️ MICKEY'S CAFE
🗓 WHEN?
▪️Every Tuesday & Thursday
▪️12pm - 2pm
💖 DETAILS:
Located in the heart of the Kempston community, Mickey’s Cafe offers not only delicious food and drinks, but also a sense of community and belonging.
🧒 SEND, Stay and Play in our own way in Flitwick (Children aged upto 12 years)
Time: 13:30 - 14:30
▪️WHEN? NO BOOKING JUST TURN UP.
Weekly on Thursday's.
▪️AGES:
Our, 'Stay and Play in Our Own Way' sessions are open for all families with children aged up to 12. Even if your children are at school, please do still come along to build friendships and gain advice and support from professionals. A member of staff from the SEND Team attends every session, so they are on hand for specific support.
CONTACT DETAILS FOR ANY ENQUIRES
☎️ Telephone 0300 300 8111
📧 Email: flitwick.childrencentre@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
🥊FREE BOX RELEASE FOR AGES 12-19 IN LEIGHTON BUZZARD
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
✨️ Discipline
✨️ Self-Defence skills
✨️ Stress Relief
✨️ Confidence – building
✨️ Health & Fitness encouragement
💥 ALL EQUIPMENT PROVIDED FREE!
📍WHEN & WHERE?
▪️When: Every Thursday
▪️Time: 5-6pm
▪️Where: Pages Park Pavilion, Leighton Buzzard
☎️ RESERVE A SPACE - Limited
🌳 Tree Tots at Howe Park Wood, Milton Keynes
Time: 10:00 - 10:50 Price: £1.00
That’s why our Outdoor Learning Team runs Tree Tots, a weekly 50-minute nature play session that enables you and your little ones to join in all kinds of outdoor fun alongside other children, parents and carers.
👩🍳 WHAT TO EXPECT
Tree Tots offers a range of seasonal activities designed just for under-5s. You’ll get to join in all kinds of fun things that connect you and your little one with nature – from ‘cooking’ in mud kitchens, balancing on ropes and swinging in hammocks to playing with water, exploring the woods and collecting natural treasure.
📍WHERE/WHEN IT TAKES PLACE
Taking place in a dedicated area of Howe Park Wood every Thursday at 10am (Winter) or 10am and 11am (Summer).
🌧 WEATHER INFORMATION
Tree Tots takes place in all weathers (unless it’s very extreme) because we believe that children should have the opportunity to experience the wild outdoors – whether that’s rain, wind, sun or snow. Please come dressed appropriately for the weather.
👶 AGE: Under 5's
TIME: 10.00am - 10.50am
🎟 TICKETS: £1.00pp (Book via the event link)
Please purchase one ticket per person attending including adults and children. Maximum 3 children per adult. We do not refund bookings.
🏛 Free Panacea Museum in Bedford 2025
Time: 11:00 - 17:00 Price: £0.00
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, 11am - 5pm
(last admission 4.30pm)
📖 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
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🎠 Houghton Regis Funfair - May 2025
Time: 17:00 - 21:00
🗓 MAY 2025 DATES
▪️Thursday 15th May: 5pm - 9pm
▪️Friday 16th May: 5pm - 9pm
▪️Saturday 17th May: 1pm - 9pm
▪️Sunday 18th May: 1pm - 7pm
🎫 TOKENS
Buy 20 tokens get 5 free
💥 REDUCED TOKEN DAYS
Reduce price token day 50p a token on:
▪️Thursday 15th May 2025
▪️Sunday 18th May 2025
🅿️ PARKING
PLEASE REMEMBER IF YOU ARE VISITING THE FAIR PLEASE USE ALLOCATED PARKING
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💥 Kids Eat Free Carvery at The Old Red Lion - Houghton Regis
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
WHEN?
That’s right — every weekday Monday - Friday from 4pm to 6pm, kids can enjoy a free carvery with every paying adult. You can book via the event link or phone on the number below.
Perfect for after-school dinners, stress-free family meals, or spontaneous early evening plans.
Fresh flavours for the grown-ups, tasty favourites for the little ones — and great value all around.
☎️ Phone: 01582 797304
🦅 Dad's & Grandad's go FREE at Hogshaw Farm & Wildlife Park - Buckinghamshire
Time: 10:00 - 17:30
🤑 OFFER - WHO CAN GO FREE & WHEN?
Dad's and Grandad's go FREE on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June 2025 with code:
💥DADSGOFREE2025
(enter at checkout when booking tickets online).
ℹ️ TERMS
🐾 WHAT TO EXPECT
Get hands on with our rare breed farm animals, come face-to-face with wildlife, explore the nature trails and go wild in our adventure play areas whatever the weather!
☕️ CAFE & SHOP
Our Farm Shop & Café are open to all, so stop by to discover tasty local produce and children’s gifts and enjoy freshly made cakes & pastries.
♿️ 🐶 ACCESSIBILITY/DOGS & MORE INFO
https://hogshawfarm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/HFWP_FAQs-Sheet.pdf
You can hire out mobility scooters if you require one. You just need to phone in advance.
☎️ Phone: 01296 670444
🎟 ONLINE TICKET PRICES - ONLINE PRICES SAVE £2 PER TICKET
▪️Adult: £10.50 - £15.50
▪️Child: (2 - 15): £10.50 - £15.50
▪️Senior Citizen: £9.50 - £14.50
▪️Visitors with disabilities: £9.50 - £14.50
One registered carer goes free of charge
▪️Visitors under 2yrs old: FREE
▪️Groups of 10 or more guests: 10% discount
Must be booked together. Discount
automatically applied at checkout.
