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🧒 Free Family Drop - In Sessions - St Mary's Church, Goldington, Bedford


Time: 14:30 - 16:30

🧒 Join St Mary's Church in Goldington Bedford on Tuesday afternoons (as seen below) for free family drop in sessions, in the Church Hall and paddock for fun, craft, games, activities and a snack.

▪️AGES:
Targeted especially for children under 12 years old.

WHAT TO EXPECT
✨️
Games 
✨️ Activities 
✨️ Craft 
✨️ Snacks 

🗓 2025 DROP IN AFTERNOON DATES
▪️Tuesday 29th July
▪️Tuesday 5th August
▪️Tuesday 12th August
▪️Tuesday 19th August
▪️Tuesday 26th August

ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
For more details, please reach out to: 
Ceri-Anne 

📧 Email: family.stmarysgoldington@gmail.com
☎️ Phone: 07872 052175

🗺SAT NAVS
For Sat Navs use MK41 0AN 

🧱 LEGO® Build the Change: Nature-Friendly Habitat Build - Tring Museum (FREE)


Time: 10:30 - 15:30

🧱 Choose your challenge and be part of the movement to build a better world, one brick at a time.

🗓 2025 DATES

▪️Tuesday 12th August
▪️Wednesday 13th August
▪️Thursday 19th August
▪️Tuesday 20th August
▪️Wednesday 21st August
▪️Thursday 22nd August
▪️Tuesday 26th August
▪️Wednesday 27th August
▪️Thursday 28th August

🕥 TIMES
▪️10.30am–12.00pm & 14.00pm–15.30pm

🐒 EVENT DETAILS
Design ways to clean up habitats, build safe corridors for animals to travel or create secure places for them to raise their young.

🧱 ABOUT
Build the Change is a LEGO Group Social Impact Program, funded by the LEGO Foundation. It inspires and empowers children around the world to build a more sustainable future through play.

▪️AGES:
Recommended for ages 6+. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

🎟 BOOKING ADVISED
During school holidays, it can get quite busy, it is advised to book to guarantee access into the Museum. Book here.

ℹ️ PLEASE NOTE
This is a free drop in activity. You may have to queue.

⛱️ Hitchin Beach 2025


Time: 10:00 - 16:00

⛱️ Our ever popular beach will be back on the Market Place for 6 weeks during the summer holidays! Running from 28th July until 31st August 2025, 10am until 4pm!

🪣 Sands, buckets and spades, music and deck chairs will turn this part of Hitchin into the seaside!
 

🛡 Historical Nonsense 2025 - Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton (FREE)


Time: 11:00 - 17:00

🛡️ Ready for Historical Nonsense this summer at Stockwood Discovery Centre - and it's completely free!

🗓 DATES & TIME:
Drop in anytime between 11am–5pm and dive into hands-on, history-inspired fun for all ages. Untill 28 August 2025.

🤩 FREE ACTIVITIES & DATES
✨️ Tuesday 29 July - Vikings Voyage
Braid a Viking bracelet, create a catapult, make your own longboat.

✨️ Thursday 31 July - WW1 Armistice Arts
Make paper planes, make a pinwheel poppy and create your own medal.

✨️ Tuesday 5 August - Ancient Greece A Grecian Discovery
Make a laurel leaf headband, design a dramatic mask, make an ancient brooch.

✨️ Thursday 7 August - Medieval Mayhem
Create a stained glass window, make your own sword, medieval letters

✨️ Tuesday 12 August - A Tudor Tournament
Design your own knights banner, create your own royal crown, Tudor finger puppet fun.

✨️ Thursday 14 August - Victorious Victorians
Make your own picture spinner, make paper flowers, weave your own flower.

✨️ Tuesday 19 August - Exciting Egyptians
Make an Egyptian collar, create a fan, design your own pharaoh headdress.

✨️ Thursday 21 August - Ancient Celts Boudica's Bash
Design your own Celtic knot, create a tree of life, make a Celtic inspired amulet.

✨️ Tuesday 26 August - The Great Georgian Gala
Make a silhouette picture, colouring in nature themed letters, quill your own picture.

✨️ Thursday 28 August - WW2 Operation Spitfire
Make your own spitfire, create a poppy, design your own paper people.

✅️ FREE - NO BOOKING REQUIRED
 
☕️ THE GARDEN CAFE
https://www.culturetrust.com/spaces/garden-cafe

🖼 Amped - Get Creative - Creative Canvas - Ampthill Park


Time: 10:30 - 15:00

🖼 Amped - Get Creative - Creative Canvas with Anne-Marie Abbate on Tuesday 26th August, 2025 at Ampthill Park.

👦 WHO IS THIS FOR?
Free activities for young people aged 10-15 who live or learn in Ampthill

🕥 SESSION TIMES
▪️
10.30am-12.00pm
▪️1.30pm-3.00pm

🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Join artist Anne-Marie Abbate for a vibrant outdoor painting workshop set against the stunning backdrop of Ampthill Park. Unleash your inner artist and bring the landscape to life. Get creative, paint, play, and let your imagination run wild!

🎟 BOOKING INFORMATION
Free but needs to be booked, you can do this on the website via the event link.

ℹ️ ENQUIRIES
📧 Email: info@fullhouse.org.uk
☎️ Phone: 01525 630783

🌞 Free Summer of Play: Dunstable Downs Sports Village


Time: 10:30 - 17:00

⚽️ This year, see our Estate transform into a Sports Village with free, outdoor activities like football, cricket, hockey, tennis, table tennis, athletics, frisbee golf, mini croquet and Wednesday soft archery for you to get stuck into.

🗓 2025 DATES & TIMES
▪️
Monday 21st July - Sunday 31st August
▪️10:30am - 17:00pm

✅️ NO BOOKING REQUIRED JUST TURN UP
Activities are self-led, just pick up the equipment from the Sports Village. Accessible drop off points and sensory sports equipment is also available. Please get in touch if you wish to find out more.

🗓 DATES FOR COACH-LED ACTIVITIES
Alternatively join one of our coach-led activities delivered by local sports groups:

🏹 Pepperstock Archers soft archery sessions:
▪️
10 August, 12.00pm-4.00pm

🌳 Let’s Get Going nature-based games:
▪️
01 August, 10.00am-12.00pm
▪️08 August, 10.00am-12.00pm
▪️15 August, 10.00am-12.00pm
▪️22 August, 10.00am-12.00pm
▪️29 August, 10.00am-12.00pm

✅️ NO BOOKING REQUIRED
FREE ENTRY! Suggested £2 donation.

🅿️ PARKING
Car parking charges apply, free for National Trust members.

📍MEETING POINT
Dunstable Downs: Head to our Visitor Centre or Sports Village to pick up your map and activity sheet.

ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01582 500920
📧 Email: dunstabledowns@nationaltrust.org.uk

💍 FREE Valuation Day - Woburn


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.

📚 Exhibition: Roger W. Martin – A Collection at John Buyan Museum, Bedford


Time: 11:00 - 16:00

🏛️ Exhibition: Roger W. Martin – A Collection
In The Basement at Bunyan Gallery, John Bunyan Museum, Bedford. 


🗓 EXHIBITION DATES & TIMES
▪️24th July – 30th August 2025
▪️Tuesday to Saturday
▪️11am – 4pm 

📚 WHAT'S ON DISPLAY?
A special exhibition showcasing the lifetime collection of Roger W. Martin, featuring: 
✨️ Rare books, including The Pilgrim’s Progress and Holy War 
✨️ Historic pictures and objects connected to John Bunyan and his works 

📖 TRIBUTE TO A DEVOTED COLLECTOR
Roger W. Martin, who passed away 25 years ago, was known for his passion for Bunyan’s legacy—he always carried a copy of The Pilgrim’s Progress with him. This exhibition honours his devotion and the generous donation of his collection to the museum in 2000.

💷 ADMISSION - FREE

ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone:
01234 270303 

🧱 LEGO® Build the Change: Nature-Friendly Habitat Build - Tring Museum (FREE)


Time: 10:30 - 15:30

🧱 Choose your challenge and be part of the movement to build a better world, one brick at a time.

🗓 2025 DATES

▪️Tuesday 12th August
▪️Wednesday 13th August
▪️Thursday 19th August
▪️Tuesday 20th August
▪️Wednesday 21st August
▪️Thursday 22nd August
▪️Tuesday 26th August
▪️Wednesday 27th August
▪️Thursday 28th August

🕥 TIMES
▪️10.30am–12.00pm & 14.00pm–15.30pm

🐒 EVENT DETAILS
Design ways to clean up habitats, build safe corridors for animals to travel or create secure places for them to raise their young.

🧱 ABOUT
Build the Change is a LEGO Group Social Impact Program, funded by the LEGO Foundation. It inspires and empowers children around the world to build a more sustainable future through play.

▪️AGES:
Recommended for ages 6+. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

🎟 BOOKING ADVISED
During school holidays, it can get quite busy, it is advised to book to guarantee access into the Museum. Book here.

ℹ️ PLEASE NOTE
This is a free drop in activity. You may have to queue.

🎨 Free Art Workshops for 11 - 16 year old - Bedford


Time: 14:00 - 16:00

📢 Free Art Workshops for 11-16 year olds
Looking for something fun to do this summer? Come get messy, colourful, and creative at our FREE drop in art workshops for ages 11–16! Grab your mates and pop in after lunch – no booking, no pressure, just pure creative vibe.

WHEN?
📅 Every Wednesday in August 2025
🕑 Drop in anytime between 2–4pm

WHERE?
📍 Central Family Hub, 30 Allhallows, Bedford MK40 1LN

WHAT TO KNOW...
We have teamed up with Bedford Giving to bring you a chill space to paint, draw, design, and express yourself – no experience needed, just bring your imagination!

🗓 2025 DATES & ACTIVITIES

📿 6th Aug - Lucky Charms
Make bracelets, keyrings, phone/bag charms.

🖌 13th Aug - Painting
Paint canvases with visiting artist Lemonpop Workshops.

🪨 20th Aug - Working with Clay
Sculpting with coloured airdrying clay.

👕 27th Aug - Printing
Print your own t-shirt or tote bag.

⛱️ Hitchin Beach 2025

Wednesday 27 August 2025

Time: 10:00 - 16:00

⛱️ Our ever popular beach will be back on the Market Place for 6 weeks during the summer holidays! Running from 28th July until 31st August 2025, 10am until 4pm!

🪣 Sands, buckets and spades, music and deck chairs will turn this part of Hitchin into the seaside!
 

🧒 Free Summer Holiday Family Fun 2025 - Leighton Buzzard


Time: 10:00 - 12:00

🧒 Our summer holiday club for families and children will be taking place at Astral Park Community Centre, Leighton Buzzard on Wednesday mornings throughout August 2025.

🗓 AUGUST 2025 DATES
▪️
Wednesday 6th August
▪️Wednesday 13th August
▪️Wednesday 20th August
▪️Wednesday 27th August

🤩 WHAT TO EXPECT
Come and chill out over Lego, crafts, games and refreshments - everything free of charge. No need to book, just turn up.

🤸‍♂️ Free Play - Bradwell Common, Milton Keynes


Time: 13:00 - 15:30

🧒 Play is a critical part of any child’s development, yet it is sometimes easy to overlook its importance. It can be hard to find safe opportunities where children can have the freedom, space, or time that they need for play. Our role is to help overcome some of these challenges so that children have opportunities for child-led play, this helps to develop:
✨️ social skills
✨️ build relationships,
✨️ and promotes self-confidence.

Open access play is an opportunity to bring families and communities closer together.
We provide four types of play events.

🤸‍♂️ Risky Play - which allows children to encounter risky experiences, to develop survival
skills and conquer fears. E.g climbing trees, climbing the van, lifting large objects, balancing on high beams or using ropes to build and balance, Using 'dangerous' tools such as saws, water slides, assault courses,
using and lighting a fire pit to cook. Some children discover strength and confidence they didn’t know they had.

⚾️ Sports and Games - which allows children to be interactive and sociable with each other and to work together for a common goal, through sports and playing games. these include football, cricket, rounders, archery, badminton, volleyball, tag, parachute games, tennis and many more.

💦 Messy Play - which allows children to discover textures and and the effect some ingredients have on each other through fun experiments, painting, foam play, slime play, sand & water play and all types of arts and crafts using materials from our scrap store.

🪵 Imaginative Play - Which allows a child’s imagination to run wild, using objects & actions to represent other things. It includes loose parts play with small and large objects, face paint, dressing up, small world toys, and Den building.

❗️PLEASE NOTE:
We do not provide or accept responsibility for the supervision of children.
Children must be supervised by a parent or guardian at our events, at all times.

🎟 FREE - BOOKING NEEDED
You can book you space via the event link. There are limited spaces available.

🧒 Free Lego, Crafts, Snacks and Drinks - Leighton Buzzard


Time: 10:00 - 12:00

🧒 Our FREE holiday session in Astral Park Community Centre, Leighton Buzzard this August 2025.

🗓 2025 DATES & TIME
▪️
Wednesday 20th August
▪️Wednesday 27th August
▪️10am - 12pm

✅️ FREE NO BOOKING REQUIRED


😊 Come along and chill out with Lego, crafts, and other activities, plus refreshments and friendly chat - all free.

🌞 Free Summer of Play: Dunstable Downs Sports Village


Time: 10:30 - 17:00

⚽️ This year, see our Estate transform into a Sports Village with free, outdoor activities like football, cricket, hockey, tennis, table tennis, athletics, frisbee golf, mini croquet and Wednesday soft archery for you to get stuck into.

🗓 2025 DATES & TIMES
▪️
Monday 21st July - Sunday 31st August
▪️10:30am - 17:00pm

✅️ NO BOOKING REQUIRED JUST TURN UP
Activities are self-led, just pick up the equipment from the Sports Village. Accessible drop off points and sensory sports equipment is also available. Please get in touch if you wish to find out more.

🗓 DATES FOR COACH-LED ACTIVITIES
Alternatively join one of our coach-led activities delivered by local sports groups:

🏹 Pepperstock Archers soft archery sessions:
▪️
10 August, 12.00pm-4.00pm

🌳 Let’s Get Going nature-based games:
▪️
01 August, 10.00am-12.00pm
▪️08 August, 10.00am-12.00pm
▪️15 August, 10.00am-12.00pm
▪️22 August, 10.00am-12.00pm
▪️29 August, 10.00am-12.00pm

✅️ NO BOOKING REQUIRED
FREE ENTRY! Suggested £2 donation.

🅿️ PARKING
Car parking charges apply, free for National Trust members.

📍MEETING POINT
Dunstable Downs: Head to our Visitor Centre or Sports Village to pick up your map and activity sheet.

ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 01582 500920
📧 Email: dunstabledowns@nationaltrust.org.uk

📚 Exhibition: Roger W. Martin – A Collection at John Buyan Museum, Bedford


Time: 11:00 - 16:00

🏛️ Exhibition: Roger W. Martin – A Collection
In The Basement at Bunyan Gallery, John Bunyan Museum, Bedford. 


🗓 EXHIBITION DATES & TIMES
▪️24th July – 30th August 2025
▪️Tuesday to Saturday
▪️11am – 4pm 

📚 WHAT'S ON DISPLAY?
A special exhibition showcasing the lifetime collection of Roger W. Martin, featuring: 
✨️ Rare books, including The Pilgrim’s Progress and Holy War 
✨️ Historic pictures and objects connected to John Bunyan and his works 

📖 TRIBUTE TO A DEVOTED COLLECTOR
Roger W. Martin, who passed away 25 years ago, was known for his passion for Bunyan’s legacy—he always carried a copy of The Pilgrim’s Progress with him. This exhibition honours his devotion and the generous donation of his collection to the museum in 2000.

💷 ADMISSION - FREE

ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone:
01234 270303 

🧱 LEGO® Build the Change: Nature-Friendly Habitat Build - Tring Museum (FREE)


Time: 10:30 - 15:30

🧱 Choose your challenge and be part of the movement to build a better world, one brick at a time.

🗓 2025 DATES

▪️Tuesday 12th August
▪️Wednesday 13th August
▪️Thursday 19th August
▪️Tuesday 20th August
▪️Wednesday 21st August
▪️Thursday 22nd August
▪️Tuesday 26th August
▪️Wednesday 27th August
▪️Thursday 28th August

🕥 TIMES
▪️10.30am–12.00pm & 14.00pm–15.30pm

🐒 EVENT DETAILS
Design ways to clean up habitats, build safe corridors for animals to travel or create secure places for them to raise their young.

🧱 ABOUT
Build the Change is a LEGO Group Social Impact Program, funded by the LEGO Foundation. It inspires and empowers children around the world to build a more sustainable future through play.

▪️AGES:
Recommended for ages 6+. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

🎟 BOOKING ADVISED
During school holidays, it can get quite busy, it is advised to book to guarantee access into the Museum. Book here.

ℹ️ PLEASE NOTE
This is a free drop in activity. You may have to queue.

⛱️ Hitchin Beach 2025

Thursday 28 August 2025

Time: 10:00 - 16:00

⛱️ Our ever popular beach will be back on the Market Place for 6 weeks during the summer holidays! Running from 28th July until 31st August 2025, 10am until 4pm!

🪣 Sands, buckets and spades, music and deck chairs will turn this part of Hitchin into the seaside!
 

👩‍🍼 Parents & Carers Under 21 Drop in - Bedford


Time: 11:00 - 12:00

👋 Hey Mamas (and parents) under 21!
Looking for something fun to do with your little one? Want to meet other young parents who get it?

👩‍🍼 WHO'S THIS FOR?

Pregnant (22 weeks+) or got little ones under 5? You’re so welcome.

ℹ️ ABOUT
Come hang out at our Young Parents Group.
It’s totally free, super friendly, and made just for you. Every Thursday at Cherry Tree Community Centre in Bedford.

👩‍🍼 Chat, chill, and make new friends
🎨 Fun stuff to do with your baby or toddler
💬 Advice & support from our lovely team (no judgment here)
☕ Laughs and good vibes only

ℹ️ CONTACT DETAILS
☎️ Phone: 0300 323 0245
📧 Email: familyhubs@bedford.gov.uk.

🛡 Historical Nonsense 2025 - Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton (FREE)


Time: 11:00 - 17:00

🛡️ Ready for Historical Nonsense this summer at Stockwood Discovery Centre - and it's completely free!

🗓 DATES & TIME:
Drop in anytime between 11am–5pm and dive into hands-on, history-inspired fun for all ages. Untill 28 August 2025.

🤩 FREE ACTIVITIES & DATES
✨️ Tuesday 29 July - Vikings Voyage
Braid a Viking bracelet, create a catapult, make your own longboat.

✨️ Thursday 31 July - WW1 Armistice Arts
Make paper planes, make a pinwheel poppy and create your own medal.

✨️ Tuesday 5 August - Ancient Greece A Grecian Discovery
Make a laurel leaf headband, design a dramatic mask, make an ancient brooch.

✨️ Thursday 7 August - Medieval Mayhem
Create a stained glass window, make your own sword, medieval letters

✨️ Tuesday 12 August - A Tudor Tournament
Design your own knights banner, create your own royal crown, Tudor finger puppet fun.

✨️ Thursday 14 August - Victorious Victorians
Make your own picture spinner, make paper flowers, weave your own flower.

✨️ Tuesday 19 August - Exciting Egyptians
Make an Egyptian collar, create a fan, design your own pharaoh headdress.

✨️ Thursday 21 August - Ancient Celts Boudica's Bash
Design your own Celtic knot, create a tree of life, make a Celtic inspired amulet.

✨️ Tuesday 26 August - The Great Georgian Gala
Make a silhouette picture, colouring in nature themed letters, quill your own picture.

✨️ Thursday 28 August - WW2 Operation Spitfire
Make your own spitfire, create a poppy, design your own paper people.

✅️ FREE - NO BOOKING REQUIRED
 
☕️ THE GARDEN CAFE
https://www.culturetrust.com/spaces/garden-cafe