🌸 Are you ready???!! Join us for our Summer Fete on 14th September 2025 where we celebrate our beautiful community nature garden and growing spaces with music, dance, crafts, food and drink! - Ransoms Recreation Ground, Hitchin. FREE ENTRY!

🥤 BRING A CUP
This is a free event – please come along and bring family and friends! Bring your cup not your car! If you bring your own cup you’ll get a discount off all drinks that would otherwise be served in a disposable cup. The event is less than 5 minutes walk from Hitchin rail station and associated bus stops.

🎶 ENTERTAINMENT
There’ll be live music including Hitchin All Stars community choir, Brazilian carnival percussion from Garden City Samba, belly-dancing from Horizons Dance, singer songwriter Yolanda Gabrielle, Portuguese-influenced trio Tritium and last but most definitely not least, the very wonderful Imajica Theatre with their amazing new children’s show – Coral Cove Adventure!

🌸 GARDEN TOURS:
11:30 - 12.15pm & 1.15 - 2pm
There will be garden tours – 11.30am for the community garden and forest garden and 1.15pm for our growing spaces up at the allotments where you can see our new summer house, hugelkultur beds and cut flower plot. Book your place in advance here. Free or £5 donation.

🪨 GARDEN & PAINTED ROCK TRAIL
Do wander round the community nature garden where there’ll be a display of progress on our new mosaic for the centre of the meeting space, and a special painted rocks nature trail for children.

📸 PLUS MORE...
There’s also a nature photography exhibition in the Pavilion curated by Hitchin Camera Club, a family cycle ride finishing at 11am at the Rec! 

🚃 An award-winning Victorian (1846) station house and booking office restoration in the Gothic Cottage Orné style, with Museum (Original Victorian Booking Office with historical displays & temporary exhibitions) Vintage Tea Room, Gift Shop & Garden.

🗓 2025 DATES OPEN 10am - 4pm
▪️Friday 12 September

▪️Saturday 13 September

▪️Sunday 14 September

▪️Wednesday 17 September

▪️Thursday 18 September

▪️Friday 19 September

▪️Saturday 20 September

▪️Sunday 21 September

🧱 EXHIBITION 19/09/25
Bedfordshire Brickworks Exhibition - Friday 19th September 10:00 – 16:00

ℹ️ ABOUT
We tell the story of the Marston Vale Railway Line engineered by Robert Stephenson and opened in 1846. It was the first railway line to reach Bedford and for much of its life serviced the vast clay workings and brickworks at Brogborough and Stewartby; later transporting much of London's rubbish to landfill in the former clay workings. Now a thriving Community Rail Line and at the heart of the East - West Rail Scheme to reconnect Oxford back to Cambridge.

✨️ WHAT TO EXPECT
Andrew Mortlock, London Brick Archivist, will be bringing an extensive collection of archives, photographs and ephemera connected with the brickworks that used to dominate the landscape along the section of the Marston Vale Line between Bedford and Ridgmont and other areas of Bedfordshire. Andrew will also be bringing his collection of company magazines, the Phorpres News, containing records and photographs of London Brick Company workers. Andrew and his family are steeped in London Brick with over 200 years’ service.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FOR KIDS
Family Quiz and Puzzle Booklet available to purchase from the Gift Shop. Symbol Spot Trail for children aged five and over. Collect your free pack from the Gift Shop with a valid train ticket.

🫖 VINTAGE TEA ROOM
Vintage Tea Room in the former Ladies Waiting Room. Outside dining available in the Courtyard.

🚶‍♂️CIRCULAR WALKS
Variety of circular & linear walks available from the Heritage Centre.

👩‍🏫 GROUP & SCHOOL PARTIES
Group and school parties welcome all year by prior booking.

ℹ️ GUIDED TOURS
Guided tours personalised to suit the visitor. Booking recommended for Tea Room – call 01525 287120

🎉 Sunday 14th September 2025 will see the return of the Woburn Arts Festival on the green.

🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
With live music, picnic on the green, lots of activities for the kids to get involved with and encouraged to be as creative as possible.

✨️ LANTERN MAKING FOR 1ST NOVEMBER
We will also have a lantern making workshop to create large scale lanterns for the whole family or groups of friends to be part of the Lantern Parade on fireworks night on the 1st of November. If you wish to take part in the lantern making workshop, please let us know so we can ensure we have enough materials available.

🫶 ALL FREE
All the activities are free so please come and join in.  

🚂 The Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre is held in the picturesque setting of Old Warden Park, home of the world famous Shuttleworth Collection housed in its own museum. The much photographed Victorian Country House, built by the Shuttleworth family in the late 1870’s, provides a magnificent backdrop for the event.

🗓 2025 DATES & TIME
▪️Friday 12th September - Sunday 14th September 
▪️09:00 - 17:00

Attracting over 15,000 visitors each year, the Bedford Steam Engine Preservation Society aims to give an insight into the country life at the turn of the 20th Century when steam was in its hey day. Many working demonstrations are taking place wherever you may care to roam on the 400 acre site.

For the complete day out visit the beer garden, listen to the band and watch the Stage Show. Stay into Saturday evening and end your day marvelling at the magnificent line-up of showman’s engines generating the fairground rides and attractions.

ATTRACTIONS
✨️ Steam Engines of all sizes
✨️ Action-Packed Arena
✨️ Working Demonstrations
✨️ Heavy Horses
✨️ Fairground Organs
✨️ Working Crafts
✨️ Craft & Food Halls
✨️ Trade & Market Stalls
✨️ Children’s Area
✨️ Vintage Vehicles
✨️ Old Time Fairground
✨️ Vintage Tractor
✨️ Licenced Bar & Refreshments

🏕 CAMPING AVAILABLE

🎟 TICKETS COST:
▪️Adult: £15.00
▪️Adult: £17.50 (Saturday & Sunday)
▪️Child under 16: FREE
(Plus booking fee)

🅿️ PRIORITY PARKING - £5.00 + £0.25 booking fee
(min £0.75 per order)
+ Booking Fee

🎠 Stanley Thurstons Fun Park is coming to Addison Park, Kempston this September 2025.

🎡 SEPTEMBER DATES 2025
💥Friday 12th September: 5pm - 9pm
▪️Saturday 13th September: 1pm - 9pm
▪️Sunday 14th September: 1pm - 9pm
💥 Friday 19th September: 5pm - 9pm
▪️Saturday 20th September: 1pm - 9pm
▪️Sunday 21st September: 1pm - 7pm

💥KEMPSTON 2025 DISCOUNT DAYS!
▪️Friday 12th September
▪️Friday 21st September
▪️All rides only 2 tokens (excludes bungees)!
▪️Unlimited rides passes for £15

TOKEN COST
🎫 1 Token = £1.20
🎫 10 Tokens = £10.00

💳 ENTRY: £2.00
(Free entry when purchasing an unlimited ride pass)

ℹ️ KEEP UPDATED INCASE OF ANY CHANGES
Keep updated on the Facebook via the event link. 

🤩 Collectormania Milton Keynes comes to thecentre:mk - FREE TO ENTER!

🗓 2025 DATES & TIMES
▪️Friday 12th September: 10am - 6pm
▪️Saturday 13th September: 9am - 6pm
▪️Sunday 14th September: 10am - 4pm

📍 LOCATION
Middleton Hall, MK shopping Centre.

🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Meet stars from film & TV, take part in photoshoots, autograph sessions and browse hundreds of stalls full of TV & Film memorabilia.

📸 PHOTOSHOOT
Photoshoot tickets for Saturday & Sunday cost between £16 - £101.
Click here.

ℹ️ FOR MORE INFORMATION
To find out more click the event link below.